Clubhouse Chatter: Is the Bears-Packers rivalry all it's cracked up to be?

What our Sports staff has to say while waiting for the games to resume.

The Bears-Packers rivalry remains special, one of the best in all of sports, but it isn't what it used to be when Mike Ditka and Forrest Gregg were the coaches.

- Orrin Schwarz

Yes. It's got history, proximity, legendary players and coaches, and passion from the fan bases. I see it in my own home as I managed to raise one die-hard Packers fan and one die-hard Bears fan. They argue more about which team is better than whose turn it is to mow the yard.

- John Lemon

Not anymore. There was a time when the Bears could win just two games in a season, and as long as those two wins were against the Packers the fan base could gloat. But the Packers have dominated the series so much lately that Bears-Packers games just don't hold the tag of "rivalry" as they once did.

- John Radtke

Since 1994 under Brett Favre and Aaron Rodgers, the Packers are 37-13 against the Bears. Doesn't sound like much of a rivalry.

- Barry Rozner

Not anymore, and that's on the Bears. They've lost 13 of the last 15 against Green Bay and, like many other NFL teams, haven't been able to stop Aaron Rodgers.

- Scot Gregor

The rivalry hasn't always been highly competitive but there is so much history there that the game always seems to be big no matter what the circumstances of the moment.

- Patricia Babcock McGraw

As a lifelong Bears fan I've never been swayed by the rivalry with the Packers. Every game in an NFL season in so important that the buildup to Sunday is similar for all games. Besides, there have been too many seasons where one team dominated the other.

- Kevin Schmit