Latest defeat frozen in frustration

Latest defeat frozen in frustration
December 23
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel columnist Michael Hunt
"The last time the Green Bay Packers played the Chicago Bears, which, coincidentally, was the last time the Packers won anything at all way back on Nov. 16, Mike McCarthy had this to say about the 34-point beating:

"This is the level we're capable of, the standard we'll try to hold ourselves to."

You could say it hasn't exactly worked out that way for the Packers. You could also say with equal conviction that the alternate reality has been as bitter as the 2-degree temperature Monday night, coldest ever for a Soldier Field game.

That such icy reality again slapped the Packers in the face goes to what a farcical, slapstick of a season it has been since it crested five weeks ago against the Bears.

All that morbid curiosity about whether the Detroit Lions can finish an entire season winless?

It just got a little more morbid and a little more curious by what happened to the Packers.

Again!

While it's a fact that all the variables that have gone into sustaining Chicago's playoff run border on the absurd, they cannot begin to match up against what the Packers have continued to offer an incredulous public. But look at it this way: At least you've got a reason to watch the blessed finale Sunday against the Lions with a sense of twisted humor.

I mean, here was a chance for the Packers to do unto the Bears what just about everyone else has done to them, with the added bonus of KO'ing Chicago's wanting postseason credentials.

You know, go right down the field and take it at the end. And the Bears could not have been more accommodating with a personal foul to put the Packers right there in position to kick the winning field goal in regulation.

Of course, you could've gone to bed at a reasonable hour and still surmised that it was . . . BLOCKED!"
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