+1 I don't know how many people I have seen/heard already counting their 7th SB. Not a single one of them thought they could beat NE. Steelers & Packer fans are the same in that regard, IMO. Steeler fans probably even more so than Packer fans. I've heard many comments coming from both camps -- they feel like the championship games are a foregone conclusion. I think NE fans thought the same. That place was a morgue. Those people obviously had never even considered that the Jets might win the game. Just for the record, this Packers fan doesn't feel like anything is locked up. I think we CAN win the game, and I do think the Packers have the overall better team, but the Bears will be at home with everything on the line, and they have a very very tough D. The Bears could easily win this game. I'm not taking anything for granted here. I'm picking up a contradition here. You said that if the Bears win this weekend, you will accept that they are the better team. But here you are saying that the Packers are the better team but the Bears still might win despite this. Do I feel that the Packers are the better team? Yes. But the whole "any given sunday" thing, etc. The Bears are also a good team, as they've proven. Do I think the Packers can win? Yes. Should they? Yes. Is it a guarantee? No. The only 3 things guaranteed in this life are death, taxes, and the Cubs not playing in the World Series. Damn, some of you people are hard to please. I give the Bears credit and you still jump all over me for it.