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Message: <blockquote data-quote="milani" data-source="post: 1098721" data-attributes="member: 6654">So right. It was hard to get mad at the Bears except for the Ditka years. The Vikes were the rival from the Tarkenton teams and then the jinx of playing in that crazy Humpty Dome. And the Boys, of course, go way back to the Landry days of intensity.The Bears were never that good for very long. Will they put together a decade of dominance again? Maybe Indiana will make that happen.During the Halas- Lombardi years the Bears were the big rival. In 1959 Vince takes over a 1-10-1 team and beats the Bears on opening day. In 1960 Hornung scores 19 points in Chicago and throws a football into the stands enflaming Halas. In 1961 the Packers beat the Bears on a Hornung 51 yard FG. In 1962 the Packers trounce the Bears twice by a combined score of 87-7! Halas wrath showed up in 1963 and a not so great Bears team steals the Championship from what should have been ours. In 1964 the Packers get back at the Bears but seem to forget the rest of the league.Finally, the arrival of Sayers-Butkus in 1965 renewed the battlefield for several years and then it faded as both teams deteriorated at the same time. 32 teams is a lot more than 14.</blockquote>

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