After a two-year hiatus, the Chicago Bears-Green Bay Packers rivalry is returning to prime time.<\/p>\n
Fox Sports announced Monday that the Bears will host the Packers at Soldier Field in Week 16 on Saturday, Dec. 20, as the NFL began a slow trickle<\/a> of releasing marquee games in advance of Wednesday\u2019s release of the complete 2025 schedule. The game will be played at 3:30 or 6 p.m.<\/p>\n The Bears completed the 2024 season with a 24-22 upset of the Packers<\/a> on Jan. 5 at Lambeau Field as Cairo Santos nailed a 51-yard field goal on the final play. The victory ended a 10-game losing streak for the Bears and sent them into an offseason of considerable change.<\/p>\n With new coach Ben Johnson<\/a> and his staff, a rebuilt offensive line<\/a> and optimism for the development of quarterback Caleb Williams<\/a> in his second season, the Bears are gaining interest in the NFC North, arguably the best division in the league last season.<\/p>\n The Bears and Packers played in prime time once annually from 2006 through 2022, a span of 17 consecutive seasons, before playing only afternoon games in 2023 and 2024. The Packers have won the last seven meetings at night.<\/p>\n The last time the Bears defeated the Packers in prime time at Soldier Field was a 20-17 victory on \u201cMonday Night Football\u201d in Week 3 of 2010 as Robbie Gould connected on two short field goals in the final four minutes.<\/p>\n Fox also announced it will air the Philadelphia Eagles at the Washington Commanders on Dec. 20.<\/p>\n By playing on Saturday in Week 16, it\u2019s possible this increases the chances the Bears are selected to play in Week 17 on Christmas, which is Thursday, Dec. 25.<\/p>\n Originally Published: May 12, 2025 at 4:44 PM CDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a two-year hiatus, the Chicago Bears-Green Bay Packers rivalry is returning to prime time. Fox Sports announced…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2072],"tags":[391,7,41,345,2514,2513,6,15705,7756,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-45200","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-green-bay-packers","8":"tag-chicago-bears","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-green-bay","11":"tag-green-bay-packers","12":"tag-greenbay","13":"tag-greenbaypackers","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-nfl-on-christmas","16":"tag-nfl-schedule","17":"tag-packers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114497158227786228","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}