Ron from Broken Arrow, OK
As I recall, when the two Packers-Bears games were wiped out by the 1982 strike, the NFL picked and chose the opponents for the last week of the revised schedule. Why in the world did the NFL not have the Packers play the Bears?
When I asked team president Robert Parins that question, back in 1982, he told me there was talk early in the strike of rescheduling a Packers-Bears game. Your recollection is spot on. Once the strike was settled, the NFL followed its original schedule for games played from Nov.