After watching the Bears lose to the Vikings last week on “Monday Night Football,” some fans were hoping the game this week against the Packers on “Sunday Night Football” would be flexed out to avoid another national embarrassment.
But that was about as unlikely to happen as the Bears discovering how to run the ball. There wasn’t a bigger draw among the games available (CBS likely protected Chiefs-Buccaneers), and a Bears-Packers game is almost always prime programming.
Mike Tirico, who will call the game on NBC, couldn’t agree more.
“A thousand percent,” he said from his home in Ann Arbor, Michigan.