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What is up Packers fans?

Welcome into an all new episode of the Packer Day podcast. I'm your host, Andy Herman. You can follow me on Twitter at Andy Herman NFL. You can find the podcast at PacketA Podcast. You know my guest already, but I'll introduce her anyway. It's the one and only Carmen Vitale. You can find her on social media at Carmie v. Of course, Fox Sports Radio as well. Carmen, it is playoff week. How the heck are you doing? I'm great. This is, this is fun. This is, we have a third matchup of these, of these two historic teams. And given how weird the regular season games were this year, like, it's either going to be even weirder or it's going to be like the most normal game ever. Like, there's going to be no in between.

Yeah, I have a feeling weird is going to stay status quo in this one.

But either way, I cannot wait.

I know you're going to, well, actually, even before we get there, just what you mentioned, as I was watching the games this weekend, and all of a sudden, it felt like for a moment that we were going to get Packers Eagles instead. I'm not even talking about which team I'd rather play from like a competitive

advantage standpoint or anything like that. There was like a part of me where like my heart

was breaking of like this season deserves a Packers Bears rubber match. It needs to be a Packers

Bears third game. I don't care where it's played.

It doesn't matter to me any of that. It just needed to happen. It deserved to happen. And as that game, both those games are going on. I'm like, oh, my good, they're going to have to go to Philly. And we might not even get this matchup. And then all of a sudden, you know, the football gods blessed us with the third and final matchup. maybe I'll be ruining those words if uh if Chicago wins and wishing that this whole thing never

happened but at the time it certainly felt like that. us with the third and final matchup. Maybe I'll be ruining those words if Chicago wins in wishing

that this whole thing never happened. But at the time, it certainly felt like this was the best

way to go from an NFL standpoint. I mean, I think the entire NFL wanted this to happen again.

I mean, you saw like the report that all of the major networks, this was their first or second

choice game for this weekend. And I guess the NFL league decided to throw Amazon Prime of Bone. So now we get a Saturday matchup again, which is crazy when you're putting the two seed, which are the Chicago Bears, funny enough, on a short week. So this is like that was very impactful. I was shocked. I thought this was going to be the Sunday night game.

Like, almost, like, I thought it was like a foregone conclusion. This was going to be the Sunday night game. But, you know, I guess Amazon gets shafted during the season with some, although this year has even been that bad. But historically, historically, they've gotten some pretty bad matchups. It hasn't really happened this year. in fact we've got some of the best games of the year on Thursday night this year.

But I digress.

I'm so excited for the primetime matchup. I will be there. So I'm going from my radio show on Fox Sports Radio, straight to the stadium. But that's the benefit of living 10 minutes from Soldier Field. So there you go. Yeah, no, it's going to be. I'm so happy for you that you get to be there and experience that atmosphere. I think like the cheapest ticket right now is over $500 to get in the gate for the game in Chicago. So that fan base is going to be fired up. I'm sure there's going to be a couple Packers transplants that are, you know, in the, you know, in the stadium there as well. but it's going to be a raucous atmosphere. I mean, this game feels so incredibly important for both franchises, which we'll talk about as well. But I'm with you. I thought this is for sure going to either be the Sunday night game or the Sunday 3.30 game at worst. And Saturday night it is, though. And I'm all for it. As long as I talked about this with Paul and Ziggy from the

Paul farrington show yesterday if the packers do lose then I lose a little bit of like my enthusiasm

for the Sunday game so I really need a Packers win so that I can still enjoy the Sunday

slate of action but either way it's going to be an awesome postseason week I want to start by

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