If the Green Bay Packers are the cheeseheads, the Chicago Bears are the cheese graters.
After the epic of the Bears 31-27 win over the Packers at Soldier Field in the first round of the NFL playoffs on Saturday, Jan. 10, quarterback Caleb Williamswide receiver DJome Moeure is and tight end Colston Loveland joined Amazon Prime’s postgame crew TV to celebrate — cheese graters and all.
All three Bears players wore special cheese grater hats, ripping into their rival Packers, whose fans are known to be “cheeseheads,” while Williams even pulled out an actual cheese grater and shredded some cheese.
Bears fans who stayed for the moment loved it.
Chicago Bears head coach Ben Johnson didn’t get wet after his team’s dramatic win over the rival Green Bay Packers in the first round of the NFL playoffs. “Hell yes!” Johnson told his team after a 31-27 win on Saturday, Jan. 10 at Soldier Field. “F*** the Packers, man! Fuck them!” Johnson’s expletive against (…)
Williams, Moore and Loveland had plenty to celebrate with the Crew, leading a historic 18-point comeback to win the game, another important chapter in the decorated rivalry.
After falling behind 21-3 at halftime, the Bears rallied in the second half and scored 25 points in the fourth quarter. The team went ahead with a touchdown pass from Williams to Moore late in the game.
“We understand it’s 60 minutes of football,” Williams said after the game. “We understand and we know who we are, we understand what this means to the city. So we keep going and keep fighting.”
Williams continued, “Play with frustration, anger, all of it. Use it to our advantage. Right before I went out, I told the offensive line, the other quarterbacks, we’re going to protect our den today.”
Caleb Williams after the NFC Wild Card Playoff game against the Green Bay Packers
Patrick McDermott/Getty ImagesIt is the Bears’ first playoff win against the Packers since December 14, 1941 and their first overall playoff win since the 2010-11 season. (The Packers ended the Bears’ season that year in the NFC Championship.)
After Saturday’s game, Bears head coach Ben Johnson the Packers coach gave Matt LeFleur a frosty handshake, apparently cutting her off in a moment that went viral on social media.
In the locker room, he gave one a speech full of expletives to fire up his team after the big win.
“Hell yes!” Johnson said. “F*** the Packers, man! Fuck them!”
He continued: “You go into the tournament after two losses, you look at halftime of this game and it’s 21-3. No panic. Built for pressure. That’s you!”
Williams was emotional in the locker room after the win, praising Johnson, the rest of the coaching staff and his teammates for hanging in there until the end.
“I said last night, you make your money in the regular season and in the postseason, you make your legacy and your name,” Williams said. “And so, it’s us… I want to keep this shit better. We’ve got to get better.”
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He continued, “Look at this guy here (Johnson). Everything that he’s done for us as a coach, everything that other coaches have done for us and it started with him… And for me personally, it’s been monumental in my life so far. And so it goes until his first playoff win as the head coach of the Chicago Bears.”
While the Bears’ next opponent is still up in the air (depending on the results of Sunday’s playoff slate), they’re locked into another home postseason game next week.
If the Philadelphia Eagles win their matchup against the San Francisco 49ers, the Bears will host the defending Super Bowl champions.
If the 49ers win, the Bears will host the Los Angeles Rams, who beat the Carolina Panthers in their playoff matchup on Saturday.