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Discover why there's more to imagine when you listen at audible.com slash best of the year. Hey everyone, welcome back to remap sports and sports-adjacent podcast that sets out to disprove the notion that people with live dedicated to pixels jumping across the screen

can't also be unhealthily interested in what nerds condescendingly referred to as sportsball every Super Bowl.

As always, I'm joined by my colleague and fellow Curris de Barr's fan, Rob Zackney,

and I come here to ask, Rob, is a moral victory still a victory?

No, it isn't.

But, you know, it was a far more fun game than I was expecting.

I suppose that it was like, so the Bears, you know, face down their historic long,

longtime rival, the Green Bay Packers, though the rivalry has been pretty much dead for our

lifetime.

We have, the Bears Packers rivalry has evolved into big brother, little brother status. Like, that's how I've't. Pretty much dead for our lifetimes. We have, the, the Bears Packers rivalry has evolved into big brother, little brother status.

Like, that's how I've thought about it since, I don't know.

Like, not since the, like, best era of the Lovie Smith defense.

Did the Bears have a reasonable chance to turn it into a coin flip?

It's really mostly just been,

we've been bullied by the Packers and then they get annoyed when we get one on them every once

in a great while. And so, like, I was fully prepared for the game to be profoundly ugly and

dispiriting. It wasn't. So that was cool. Like, it was a, it was a more enjoyable game than I was expecting. At times, the Bears looked like a better team. But they did not have a better quarterback. And a few other things as well. But like, there was a point there early in the, in the first half, where I was like, yep, this is starting to look shitty. And I do, I'm not, I'm not having fun. And then I had a great time. Yeah, I mean, I think that's one of the, you know, if you're looking at the stories of the seasons with the Chicago Bears, who if you did not watch the game, um, uh, lost to the Packers, uh, by seven points, but it was a tighter game than that number implies, especially in the second

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