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Bears spring Packers surprise

Source: Agencies | September 29, 2010, Wednesday | Print Edition

THE Chicago Bears made the Green Bay Packers pay for their indiscipline with a 20-17 upset on Monday to join the Kansas City Chiefs and Pittsburgh Steelers as the National Football League's only unbeaten teams.

Robbie Gould booted a 19-yard field goal with four seconds left to clinch victory in front of a rollicking soldout crowd at Soldier Field in Chicago and keep the surprising Bears at the top of the National Football Conference North standings with a perfect 3-0 mark. The Packers fell to 2-1.

Devin Hester returned a punt 62 yards for a touchdown and Jay Cutler passed for another but the Packers were the architects of their own demise by committing a franchise-record 18 penalties for 152 yards.

"It's fun, that is all you can ask for," said quarterback Cutler, who threw for 221 yards. "The defense did a great job, we struggled the whole game, felt like we kind of were killing ourselves."

The 180th meeting between the NFL's two most storied franchises provided an unexpected early season treat for gridiron fans.

While the Packers had been widely tipped as Super Bowl contenders since training camp, not much had been expected of the Bears.

The Packers scored on their first possession, quarterback Aaron Rodgers engineering a 60-yard drive capped off by a seven-yard TD strike to Greg Jennings.

Green Bay added a 38-yard Mason Crosby field goal in the second quarter before the Bears offense finally got going, Cutler finding Greg Olsen with a nine-yard TD pass to slice the Packers lead to 10-7 entering the break.

Explosive style

The Bears took their first lead of the game in explosive style when Hester took a punt and blasted up the sideline to put Chicago up 14-10 just seconds into the fourth quarter.

Green Bay came right back, Rodgers engineering a 72-yard scoring drive and diving over from three yards out for the TD to retake the lead 17-14.

But with the game on the line, the Packers fell off the penalty tightrope they had been walking all night as the Bears worked the ball deep into the Green Bay end with the help of two unnecessary roughness penalties setting up a Gould 25-yard field goal to level the contest.

With just over two minutes to play, Rodgers, who threw for 316 yards, had Green Bay on the move but the Packers again shot themselves in the foot when James Jones fumbled and Chicago recovered on the 46. The Bears took over and with the help of a pass interference penalty moved down to the Packers nine-yard line setting up Gould's game-winning chip shot.
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