Game week: Sunday, October 11 at Lambeau Field
Packers vs Bears history: five things to know before Sunday
The Packers lead the all-time series 109-98-6, and they host the Bears at Lambeau Field on October 11, 2026.
The Bears come to Lambeau Field on Sunday, and no two teams in the NFL have played each other more. The Packers lead the all-time series 109-98-6. The Bears won the last meeting, 31-27 in the playoffs in Chicago on January 10, 2026, so this one comes with a score to settle.
The Bears get a whole chapter in my book, the All-Time Best Green Bay Packers Trivia Quiz Book, and a few of these stories are questions in it. Here are five things worth knowing before kickoff.
The first meeting was a 20-0 loss to the Staleys
The Packers joined the league in 1921, and on November 27 of that year they played in Chicago for the first time. The home team was still called the Staleys, and they won 20-0. It was the only time Green Bay ever faced them under that name. The Staleys finished that season with the best record in the league, and a year later they were the Bears.
Lambeau Field opened with a win over the Bears
The stadium we now call Lambeau Field opened as City Stadium on September 29, 1957, and the Bears were the first visitors. The Packers won 21-17 in front of a capacity crowd of 32,132. Vice President Richard Nixon dedicated the stadium at halftime, and Bears owner George Halas was up on the platform with him.
The biggest Packers win in the series was 49-0
Vince Lombardi’s Packers beat the Bears 49-0 at home on September 30, 1962. It is still the largest margin of victory Green Bay has ever had against Chicago. The Packers swept the Bears that year, winning 38-7 in Chicago as well, and finished the season as NFL champions.
The 2010 NFC title game sent the Packers to the Super Bowl
The Bears and Packers had met in the playoffs only once before, a 33-14 Bears win in 1941. The second time came on January 23, 2011, at Soldier Field, with a trip to the Super Bowl on the line. Green Bay led 14-0 at halftime, and in the fourth quarter defensive tackle B. J. Raji intercepted a pass and ran it 18 yards for a touchdown. The Packers held on to win 21-14, then beat the Steelers in Super Bowl XLV two weeks later.
Fourth and 8 won the division in 2013
Aaron Rodgers broke his collarbone against the Bears in Green Bay earlier in the 2013 season and missed seven weeks. He came back for the last game of the season, at Soldier Field on December 29, with the NFC North on the line. Down 28-27 in the final minute, facing fourth and 8, he found Randall Cobb, also back from a broken leg, for a 48-yard touchdown. The Packers won 33-28 and took the division.
That’s the story behind Sunday’s matchup. You can find every Packers vs Bears game on the team page, and the site’s trivia quizzes are at the trivia hub.
My Packers trivia book has more Bears questions, like what call replay overturned in the 1989 Instant Replay Game and how long Robert Brooks’ touchdown catch against Chicago was in 1995. Every answer comes with the story behind it, in paperback and Kindle on Amazon.
Trivia questions about the Packers and the Bears
Tap an answer. The factoid under it is the kind of thing the book puts under every one of its 200 questions.
Question 1
In the controversial 1989 “Instant Replay Game” against the Bears, what penalty was overturned upon review?
Don Majkowski’s touchdown pass to Sterling Sharpe was originally called over the line. But upon a long-lasting instant replay review, the pass was deemed legal, which allowed the game-winning touchdown to stand.
Question 2
Who did the Packers beat in the 1964 “Free Kick Game” where Paul Hornung made an extremely rare 52-yard “fair catch kick”?
There’s an obscure NFL rule called the “fair catch free kick” rule that allows a team who fair catches a punt the option to place kick a field goal with the defense backed up 10 yards, like a kickoff, so the receiving team has a “free kick”. In 1964, Elijah Pitts fair caught a punt on the 48-yard line in Green Bay territory. Lombardi called for the free kick, so Bart Starr held the ball while Paul Hornung made a 52-yard field goal. The Packers beat the Bears 23-12.
Question 3
How long was the longest touchdown reception in Packers history?
It doesn’t get any longer than 99 yards. In 1995 against the Bears, Brett Favre dropped back into his end zone and launched a bomb to Robert Brooks, who took it all the way down the field for the touchdown. This reception is one of just thirteen 99-yarders in NFL history.
Question 4
Which team did the Packers beat in the NFC Championship game to advance to Super Bowl XLV?
The Packers, with a regular season record of 10-6, made history as the first NFC sixth-seed team to advance to the Super Bowl. Their journey to Super Bowl XLV was marked by victories over the conference’s top three seeded teams: the Philadelphia Eagles, the Atlanta Falcons, and the Chicago Bears in the NFC Conference game.
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