Big shoulders vs. big cheese

Ten facts about Bears vs. Packers:

1 The Bears and Packers have been playing each other since 1921, when the Packers joined the American Professional Football Association, forerunner of the NFL . . . 

2 . . . Except in 1982, when the players strike wiped out both scheduled games.

3 U.S. Route 41 connects Soldier Field in Chicago and Lombardi Avenue in Green Bay.

4 Walt Kiesling, a guard in the 1930s, is the only Hall of Famer to play for both teams.

5 Twenty-nine former Bears are in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The Packers have 26. 

6 The teams have faced each other 181 times, with Chicago holding a 92-83-6 advantage.

7 Soldier Field and Lambeau Field are a four-hour drive apart.

8 The Packers have been in four Super Bowls, winning three. The Bears have been in two Super Bowls, winning one.

9 Including this year, the Bears and Packers have made it to the playoffs in the same season only four times.

10 Vince Lombardi's first regular-season win as Packers coach, in the 1959 season opener, came against the Bears.