CHICAGO—Bears kicker Cody Parkey was booed off the field after his game-sealing miss in Sunday's NFC wild-card loss—a man no Chicago fans wanted to see any more.
But he was the one everyone wanted to talk to in the locker room following the Bears’ 16-15 loss to the Eagles.
A half hour earlier, Parkey had the Chicago crowd in his grasp. Fans who had previously been banging on walls suddenly left the entire stadium eerily quiet as he lined up for a 43-yard kick.
Following a timeout by Eagles coach Doug Pederson in an effort to ice the kicker, Parkey booted a ball that hit the left upright, bounced off of the crossbar and then fell to the turf.