The Chicago Bears are the No. 2 seed in the NFC playoffs and will host the Green Bay Packers at 7 p.m. Saturday in the wild-card round. The game will be broadcast on Amazon’s Prime Video.
In the Chicago area, the game also will be broadcast on Fox-32.
It will be the first Bears playoff game since the 2020 season and the first playoff game at Soldier Field since the 2018 season, when kicker Cody Parkey missed a last-second field-goal try against the Philadelphia Eagles.
The Bears locked down the No. 2 seed — despite a 19-16 loss to the Detroit Lions in the regular-season finale Sunday — when the Eagles lost 24-17 to the Washington Commanders.
The Bears already were guaranteed a home game in the first round after clinching the NFC North two weeks ago. As the No. 2 seed, they’re also guaranteed a home game in the divisional round if they beat the Packers.
This will be the third matchup this season between the longtime rivals. The Packers won the first game 28-21 on Dec. 7 at Lambeau Field, with Bears quarterback Caleb Williams throwing an interception in the end zone in the final minute. The Bears won the rematch 22-16 with a dramatic fourth-quarter rally and overtime touchdown Dec. 20 at Soldier Field.
This will mark the 213th meeting between the Bears and Packers, but only the third in the postseason. They last met in the playoffs in the NFC championship game in January 2011. Aaron Rodgers and the Packers won that game and went on to win Super Bowl XLV.
The franchises also met in a playoff game in 1941, with the Bears beating the Packers to advance to the NFL championship game, in which they defeated the New York Giants for the title.
Both previous matchups this season came down to the wire. The Bears came back from a 10-point, fourth-quarter deficit in the overtime victory, a game in which Packers quarterback Jordan Love exited in the first half with a concussion.
The Prime Video crew of Al Michaels, Kirk Herbstreit and Kaylee Hartung will call the wild-card game against the Packers.