I don't need to hate the Bears to be accepted as a normal bandwagon Packers fan. I am European, so Americans are already surprised that I like any other sport other than Euro-football.

Houston is actually quite the threat. It is actually a shame they do not get tested more to see if they could handle the playoffs. Their style does not require Schaub to be increadible just consistant. Arian Foster and the D do more than enough to make this team unique and good. Da Bears finally can show if the are really as good as their record shows.

Why should anyone believe that you weren't convinced that the Bears would win by a 24 points margin when your buddy superchunk predicted a 25 points margin? You both thought your team is great, but much to your disappointment it wasn't. It's easy to say that it was a joke after the fact. But seriously, Week 9 results pending until this has been properly discussed.

I don't need to hate the Bears to be accepted as a Packers fan. I am European, so Americans are already grateful that I like their weird sport at all.

Saints won by 15 points, you predicted a margin of 11 points while I had 18 points. 18 is a tiny bit closer to 15, so by rule I win the tie-breaker. Your prediction is only off by 4 points on the Eagles which makes this whole situation as bad as it could possibly get.

I was hoping that the Eagles score a touchdown on their final drive, because the actual outcome isn't pretty. If I greenlight my changed prediction, I'll have to expect the trouble to define at which point changing a prediction becomes clear abuse of the system that is in place.

It's hard to hate the Bears when they paved the road to a Super Bowl win for the Packers. And I already knew that the Packers of the '70s and '80s were awful.

I wasn't just talking about the NFC CG. Week 17 of the regular season counts as well.

I remember a catastrophic Packers season in the previous decade. Didn't stop them from beating the Saints 51-3. Exceptional days can happen, even if the season is going really bad for a specific team.

I don't put too much stock in historic things that are dating way back. I think there was at least one Bears vs. Packers game that ended 0-0, that was during a time when the rulebook wasn't developed well. You know, dumb stuff like the next play has to start where the previous one ended. Thankfully the sport has hashmarks nowadays.

In real football, I don't fully acknowledge the World Cups that were won by Uruguay and Italy in the 1930s. If you read stories about how the referees were looking away when the home team committed fouls, then it's clear that this wasn't fair game. But go ahead and post the historic Bears vs. Packers record.

I know that the Bears won the first game during the regular season. It's also the last game the Bears won against the Packers, they've lost five in a row since then.

You know, all those games when the Packers defeated the Bears wouldn't count either.

The Lions are going to win, because the Falcons are going to rest their starters.

Okay, okay... I confess.

I wrote the entire thing to troll superchunk. I already had the resulting records in mind before compiling the schedules, so I had to make some tweaks here and there to arrive at the desired result. I couldn't make it all out Packers domination either, otherwise superchunk would have immediately noticed what's up.