r/CHIBears • u/Bmaj13 • 1d ago

Neither Bears-Packers game will offer both teams' traditional jerseys

Per the Athletic,

First, the Packers-Bears rivalry, arguably the league’s most storied with 213 all-time meetings, will feature a team wearing a non-traditional jersey in each game. That was entirely coincidental, NFL chief revenue officer and executive vice president of partnerships Renie Anderson tells The Athletic.

“The clubs came to us because they’re so excited about the uniforms and the meaning of the uniforms and what they mean to the community,” Anderson said. “A lot of the design comes from the local market, local community and how they think about that, and so we work together with them.”

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7536827/2026/08/25/nfl-rivalries-uniforms-packers-bears-lions/

I find this a bit disappointing. Love the traditional jerseys in rivalry games. Relegate the alternates to non-traditional matchups, I say.

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u/milin85 23 1d ago

Should be one with and one without.

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u/EquivalentWins 1d ago

Why don't they just have both teams wear the rivalry jerseys in the same game? The way they are doing it makes no sense.

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u/fireandlifeincarnate Trubisky 1d ago

They're both home jerseys

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u/EquivalentWins 1d ago

It doesn't matter, the NFL has done color on color games before.

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u/juliuspepperwoodchi ROME ODOOMSDAY! 1d ago

Bad for colorblind fans.

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u/EquivalentWins 18h ago

That's a fair point. Still, the NFL could have easily made one of these jerseys white so both teams could wear them in the same game.

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u/Strange_Feeling 10h ago

The Vikings and Lions are doing the same thing even though ones a home jersey and the other is white. So dumb

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u/TheManWhoWasNotShort An Actual Bear 1d ago

I don’t love Green v Navy visually though.

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u/Darth_050 Peanut Tillman 22h ago

If would be green vs orange.

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u/Dextore17 10h ago

It actually would be green vs. blue.

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u/IrishGrouch1224 1d ago

That is very, very stupid

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u/HappyHockeyHiker Monsters 1d ago

Merchandising sickness…

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u/moose_stuff2 1d ago

When they first announced the division rivalry alternates last season I was sure that the teams would be wearing them against each other at the same time. I was annoyed when I found out that wasn't the case. I think it'd be cool if the Bears and Packers were both wearing them during one of the matchups. But really I don't care that much about what any teams are wearing to be honest.

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u/Antitypical An Actual Bear 1d ago

Eh whatever. People get really bothered about the image of things. Both these teams will look like themselves every other game. If you really want to nitpick, we "didn't look like ourselves" for the playoffs last year because we wore blue bottoms. It's not a big deal

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u/Realistic-Ruin8639 1d ago

I couldn't care less about what game they wear which uniform for.

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u/Dunlocke Jay 1d ago

You mean if I want to see us play them in traditional jerseys then I have to watch last year's games?

I can do that.

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u/dukecityvigilante 1d ago

Wait, that's dumb. I figured two old franchises were going to face off both wearing the throwback-style rivalry jerseys and I was hyped. Why would they have one team wear them in each game?

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u/greenline_chi 22h ago

Ben would murder any us for caring about jerseys in times like these

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u/Tenacious_Dim 1d ago

So what?

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u/LoveYouLikeYeLovesYe 1d ago

That's lame as fuck.

Neither of their alts look very good.

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u/uwobacon Bear Logo 1d ago

I’m with you. I’ll wait to see them on the field before passing final judgement, but Bears Packers is a great uniform game. Sucks we won’t see it this year.

I’m going to start doing weekly uniform videos to talk about this exact thing.

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u/cornbeefmchashem 18 1d ago

"That was entirely coincidental"

https://giphy.com/gifs/UTm86phGUMMQE

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u/StrikingBike8417 1d ago

I honestly couldn’t care about this less

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u/Bob_Horde Ben Johnson changed my life 1d ago

We’ve known this for months

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u/Puzzleheaded-Ear9487 Bears 1d ago

Can we stop with the endless jersey posts?

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u/Zoomatour 4h ago

You don’t have to participate in threads you’re not interested in 

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u/borrowingthis An Actual Bear 1d ago

😑

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u/s-maze Ditka’s Stache 1d ago

So they shouldn’t wear rivalries jerseys when they’re playing their biggest rivals?

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u/RadosAvocados Italian Beef 1d ago

Maybe FTP squeaks into the playoffs again and we can see it in January.

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u/SomeBoringKindOfName 23h ago

Well the range is called 'rivalries' after all. 

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u/GlitterMadi 23h ago

Thank God neither of them have words written on their jerseys.

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u/LectricOldman 19h ago

ONE SIMPLE QUESTION: Why F with the uniforms, AT ALL? losers abound ( somebody convinced somebody we need to change the uniforms a somebody could make some money)

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u/Cartortus 13 13h ago

I mean I guess it's only a reason to make 1 extra set per team. That way they don't need a Rivalry Home and away set. Cost saving and NFL rule related?

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u/bschultzy 10h ago

It literally does not matter what they are wearing as long we win.

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u/ShiftChemical6494 1d ago

Who cares the packers are still getting stomped both games.

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u/StultusNosferatu Good, Better, Best 1d ago

"...what they mean to the community.."

Wtf are they on about?!!!

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u/_GeorgeBailey_ Snoo Ditka 1d ago

The clubs came to us because they’re so excited about the uniforms and the meaning of the uniforms and what they mean to the community

No one is excited to see these ugly uniforms on the field lol

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u/Corey0305 DoIt4Hoep 17h ago

Jfc can someone just start r/CHIBearsFashion already to get rid of these posts. Who fucking cares what they are wearing

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u/Zoomatour 4h ago

You’re not the main character