http://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/P/Plun J:00htm

Sorry the above link is bad. Here's the real one.

Edit:  Crap!  I can't get the link to work.  Just type in Jim Plunkett.  He stunk.  Trust me. 

It's not really a lack of Respect that the Packers get 3.

It's that the Bears have really lost a lot of their "Public money" status.  While Green Bay is still a "Public Money" team.

People will bet Green Bay on the name.

My money would be....

Steelers

Packers

Bears

Jets

in that order... though i'd like to see it

Jets (Jets fans are usually nets and mets fans... they need it.)

Bears (Chicago, kinda needs it too, and it'd be good for a return of Da Bears.)

Packers (It'd be Poetic for Brett Farve's last year being capped off with a Packers Superbowl win, while he's watching it on tv.)

Steelers (Was a hard game to root for last weekend.  Probable murderer vs probable rapist.)

I hope they win!  BTW, would you have used the Meatloaf reference if it wasn't for my playing it the other night?  lol

Not much of a football fan, but what I do like about playoff football is it's one and done. And that leads to many unexpected twists and turns. So who knows what could happen..

Also, while not really a football fan, I am a Chicagoan, so I gotta support my Bears. Crazier things have happened. With this defense, they could pull it off. I hope they can at least knock off the Packers, as I'd hate to see our most hated rivals get to the Superbowl at our expense.

I don't really get why they're the underdog. They are the division champs. The Packers are the wildcard. The Bears are not just going to lie down, especially playing at Soldier Field.

All I can say is screw Pat Bowlen for firing Mike Shannahan leading to the hiring of Josh McDaniels which lead to conflicts between McDaniels and Jay Cutler, leading to Jay Cutler bieng traded from the Broncos to te Bears.

The Bears wouldn't be their if Pat Bowlen hadn't made his worst choice in the history of owning the Denver Broncos.

Oh and I am going for the Bears justto show all the fools who thought trading Jay Cutler was a good thing that they are were crazy.

Yup, 1941 is totally relevant.

Is that where I got that from subconsciously?

I thought that I was being funny and/or clever...

In the playoffs anything can happen. Any team can beat any team on any givin' Sunday. The GB/CHI game should be a close one,but, whoever loses deserves to lose and whoever wins deserves to win. I know the Packers are the favorites to win,but, in rivalry games they're really are no favorites, we saw what happened last week in the Jets/Patriots game. 

LETS GO BEARS!!!!

Rodgers has improved every season he's been a starter and is now one a top 5 QB in the NFL, top 10 at the very least (because there are just so many great QBs playing right now). No one with a brain is any more down on Brees because of his 2010. He threw more picks, which is to be expected after his amazing 2009 season. He's still a top QB and he had a hell of a good season in 2010.

That's not true at all. The NFL season is too short and the schedule too unbalanced to be considered the hallmark of a great team.

The Packers played the Eagles, Jets, Falcons, Patriots on the road and the Giants at home. That's brutal.

The Bears played the Giants on the road and the Jets, Eagles, and Patriots at home.

Not even close to the same thing. The Bears didn't even play the Falcons and got the majority of good teams at home (and were still annihilated by the Pats). The two teams' schedules weren't even close to being equal. That's just the nature of the NFL but it's another reason why the regular season has to be taken with a grain of salt.

Despite that more difficult schedule, the Packers scored far more points and allowed far fewer points than the Bears and ended up just one game behind Chicago. On paper and on the field, the Packers look like a better team. That doesn't mean they'll win on Sunday but that does explain why they're favored to do so.