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Message: <blockquote data-quote="El Guapo" data-source="post: 1064784" data-attributes="member: 5830">Slow the horses a bit. Yes the rivalry is still there, but it is NOTHING like it was in the 60s-80s. Those teams hated one another and the coaches pushed the narrative. Despite Halas and Lombardi being good friends, they pushed the rivalry hard in the week leading up to games and on the field as well.The coaches these days are trying to push a bunch of pampered players to play harder because of rivalries. Let's be honest about today's coaches as well. Matt LaFleur isn't sending players out to intentionally hurt Bears players and vice versa.Yes they might play each other harder than say an AFC east game, but there is no Butkus or Nitschke out there gunning to take out players in meaningless Week 18 games. The Ndamukong Suh's of the world have been largely phased out of the game. They all want to high five each other after the game, talk about which Caribbean island each will be visiting, and trade jerseys.The Packers tried to win that game. Guys played hard. They just weren't playing with that fire. They were Rocky fighting Clubber Lane before Apollo helped him get the eye-of-the-tiger back.</blockquote>

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