{"id":1955,"date":"2009-12-14T10:41:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-14T16:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/14\/doubleheader-day-game-1-packers-at-bears\/"},"modified":"2009-12-14T10:41:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-14T16:41:00","slug":"doubleheader-day-game-1-packers-at-bears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/doubleheader-day-game-1-packers-at-bears\/","title":{"rendered":"Doubleheader Day Game #1: Packers at Bears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a day I have only participated in two times before \u2013 the first time on November 14, 1999 and the second, last year, on November 9, 2008.  Yesterday, I attended both the Chicago Bears and the Chicago Blackhawks game in the same day.  The timing for the games works perfectly.  The Bears start at noon and the Blackhawks start at 6 pm on Sunday \u2013 meaning you have around three hours to grab dinner in between the games.<\/p>\n<p><u>Pre Game Dining<\/u><br \/>Rather than tailgating before the game, I went out with a friend of mine to the usual pregame restaurants \u2013 Grace O\u2019Malley\u2019s and Weather Mark Tavern.<\/p>\n<p><u>The Game<\/u><br \/>Although the Bears had the lead heading into the 4th quarter, the Packers intercepted Jay Cutler shortly after the 4th quarter started.  The Packers scored the game winning touchdown on the ensuing drive to win 21-14 \u2013 officially eliminating the Bears from the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>This was the Packers sixth consecutive victory I have seen against the Bears.  Actually, every time I have seen the Bears and Packers play the Packers win \u2013 in the old version of Soldier Field (1997, 2000), Memorial Stadium in Champaign, IL (2002), and the current version of Soldier Field (2003, 2005 and 2009).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a day I have only participated in two times before \u2013 the first time on November 14, 1999 and the second, last year, on November 9, 2008.  Yesterday, I attended both the Chicago Bears and the Chicago Blackhawks game in the same day.  The timing for the games works perfectly.  The Bears start at noon and the Blackhawks start at 6 pm on Sunday \u2013 meaning you have around three hours to grab dinner in between the games.<br \/>\nPre Game DiningRather than tailgating before the game, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[170,76,184,161],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}