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Brad Biggs: 'One of the worst feelings in the world': Bears' season ends in cruelest way with Cody Parkey's missed field goal

CHICAGO - The doors to Club Dub, where the Bears find their groove, were seconds away from swinging open to a laser light show and music loud enough you can feel it in your chest.

Then Cody Parkey did what has become an impossible trick turned nightmare for the Bears, something that has been a joke for weeks, a very bad one for the organization. His 43-yard field-goal attempt clanked off the left upright, fell in what appeared to be super-slow motion, banked off the crossbar and then bounced back toward the field of play.

There is no party in Club Dud.

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