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RIVALRY GAME KICKS OFF 2009 IN PRIME TIME
- Green Bay kicks off its 91st season of professional football - its 89th as a National Football League franchise - at Lambeau Field Sunday night against its most storied rival.
- No truer rivalry exists in the NFL, and no two teams have met on the gridiron more than Green Bay and Chicago. Sunday marks the 178th game in the all-time series.
- Names like Halas and Lombardi, Nitschke and Butkus, Starr and Payton only begin to define the history of the series. Currently, the Bears own a 90-80-6 advantage in regular-season play, in addition to the lone playoff win in 1941.
- Green Bay opens the season at home for the fourth consecutive season. The Packers are 49-36-3 (.570) all-time in season openers and 2-1 under Head Coach Mike McCarthy.
- It marks the 21st time Green Bay plays Chicago in the season opener. Amazingly, 18 of the previous 20 have occurred in Green Bay, with the lone Windy City o..
Source: Packers.com
