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Bears vs. Packers On Opening Day?

CHICAGO (CBS) -- That sad NFC Championship game is hardly a distant memory, in which the Green Bay Packers clobbered the Bears and Jay Cutler had to leave with a sprained knee.

But now, it looks like the Bears might be taking on the Packers again on opening day next season.

Jeff Blumb, a former public relations director for the Packers, issued the following tweet Wednesday night: "Not confirmed, but continue to hear on NFL grapevine that it will be Bears at Packers in Week 1 Thursday night opener."

The Bears' last season, of course, ended with a whimper in January when they lost the much-hyped NFC Championship Game to the Packers 21-7.

Cutler was widely criticized for going to the sidelines with a sprained medial collateral ligament in his left knee, leaving Caleb Hanie to take over as quarterback for the rest of the game.

Most recently, Cutler told the Chicago Sun-Times he "would have loved to play."

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