For his or her first house playoff recreation in eight years, the Chicago Bears have made the weird determination to put on a uniform mixture that they’ve by no means received a recreation in.
The Bears surprisingly revealed on Saturday that they will be going with an all-Navy search for their Saturday night time playoff showdown in opposition to the Inexperienced Bay Packers. Meaning they will be sporting their Navy jersey with their Navy pants. It is a mixture that the Bears have solely worn six instances in franchise historical past and so they’ve gone 0-6 in these video games, together with 0-4 in opposition to the Packers.
First, let’s check out the threads.
The Bears performed eight house video games through the common season and so they wore the identical factor in every recreation: Their Navy jersey with white pants.
The all-Navy look that they will be sporting on Saturday night time will mark the primary time in three years that they’ve gone with their Navy jersey mixed with their Navy Pants.
The Bears first wore the all-Navy look in 2002 and here is how their six video games have gone within the uniforms over the previous 23 years:
2002 (Week 5): Packers 34-21 over Bears
2006 (Week 17): Packers 26-7 over Bears
2016 (Week 7): Packers 26-10 over Bears
2017 (Week 1): Falcons 23-17 over Bears
2017 (Week 4): Packers 35-14 over Bears
2022 (Week 18: Vikings 29-13 over Bears
Not solely are the Bears 0-6, however they’ve misplaced these six video games by a median of 15.2 factors per recreation.
The Bears are going through the Packers in a postseason recreation for the third time in franchise historical past. Regardless of taking part in at house, Chicago goes into the sport as a 2.5-point underdog. The Bears have not received a playoff recreation for the reason that 2010 season, which is tied for the third-longest drought within the NFL, and for some motive, they’ve determined to try to finish that drought by sporting a uniform mixture that they’ve by no means received in.
