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David Haugh: Bears should win most important game of John Fox era, but don't count on it

Not since Dec. 22, 2008, have the Bears been favored against the Packers.

Kyle Orton started at quarterback. Alex Brown, who now analyzes games for NBC Sports Chicago, saved that one with a blocked field goal at the end of regulation. The Bears won 20-17 in overtime. Somewhere in Mentor, Ohio, 14-year-old Mitchell Trubisky probably stayed up past bedtime to catch Robbie Gould's game-winning 38-yard field goal on "Monday Night Football."

"I'm starting to figure out it's a pretty big deal," Trubisky said of the Bears-Packers rivalry.

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