It doesn’t get more anti-climactic than a meaningless Bears-Vikings game to close a season. The two NFC North rivals are set to meet in Week 17 for the fourth straight year, and somehow they’ve never managed to make this respective meeting important. It’s a tradition unlike any other where at least one participant has routinely had nothing to play for, nothing to look forward to aside from the golf course. It couldn’t be any less meaningless in terms of stakes.
Minnesota is approaching this uneventful dress rehearsal with caution. Locked into the NFC’s No.