It feels like we’ve seen this movie before.
Hating a rival team in the NFL is basically a full-time job. And when that rival team beats your team in the most heartbreaking fashion possible, fans are forced to work overtime in their detestation of the rival.
In Week 11, the Green Bay Packers knocked off the Chicago Bears, 20-19, thanks to a blocked field goal as time expired. On the spectrum of “palpable losses” to “losses that make you not want to be a football fan anymore,” a blocked field goal falls much closer to the latter than the former. Give the Bears fan in your life a little space to grieve this loss. Maybe buy your Bears fan co-worker a coffee on Monday morning if they’re looking down.
As for Packers fans, well, they’re having a party at the graveyard that Bears fans have been buried at after this game. This wasn’t a pretty win by any sense, but Packers fans would rather win ugly against Chicago a thousand times than lose pretty once. Here are some very understandable reactions from both Green Bay and Chicago fans after an unreal finish.
I hate the Green Bay Packers more than anything in this world.
— maddie (@madswag4315) November 17, 2024
Walking into the gym tomorrow and seeing my Bears fan friends pic.twitter.com/x6ex2mmIES
— Eli Berkovits (@BookOfEli_NFL) November 17, 2024
Bears fans right now pic.twitter.com/V7t7dDQIco
— Gump Cathcart (@bubbagumpino) November 17, 2024
Bears fans are not having a good time after loss to Packers
This is, frankly, the correct way to view a rival team.
Packers to the Bears after handing them an 11th straight L pic.twitter.com/26QLuierlx
— NFL Memes (@NFL_Memes) November 17, 2024
Save the Packers, Toyotathon.
Toyotathon if you can hear this please save the Packers. pic.twitter.com/kLpfGAYOzC
— Tyler Brooke (@TylerDBrooke) November 17, 2024
Packers got out juiced for 95 percent of the game and still beat the Bears. #GoPackGo pic.twitter.com/CifRjkywQz
— Sarah Kelliher (@sarahkelliher4) November 17, 2024