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The Monday Night Football Game: the Chicago Bears vs the Philadelphia Eagles – Monday, November 7 2011, 8:30 PM ESPN

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Week nine of the NFL's Monday night football schedule features a massive matchup between two of the biggest threats of Super Bowl glory in the 2011-2012 season: nine times NFL champions the Chicago Bears against many experts pick to go all the way this year – the Philadelphia Eagles, at Philadelphia's Lincoln Financial Field in front of what is bound to be a rabid 69,000 capacity crowd of Eagles fans.

Both teams won their divisional titles last year and competed in the playoffs, and both sides were eliminated by eventual Super Bowl champions the Green Bay Packers. Now, like a pair of runaway express trains, they are all set to meet in a Monday Night Football game that will not be for the faint hearted!

Last season, the Eagles once again topped the toughest division in all of pro football – the National Football Conference East - overcoming such NFL powerhouses as the Dallas Cowboys, the Washington Redskins and the New York Giants – multi-Super Bowl winners one and all. Heading into the playoffs, it was the Eagles misfortune to run into a Green Bay Packers team that was building a momentum that would take them all the way to the Vince Lombardi trophy.

Since the end of the NFL lockout last month, no team has done more to strengthen their roster than the Eagles, who have signed more than a dozen free agents including some of the brightest talents in pro football.

Few teams in NFL have the history, the respect and the sheer aura of the Chicago Bears, one of the oldest franchises in the league, and with nine NFL championships, second only to the Green Bay Packers in terms of titles won. The Bears one and only Super Bowl success came in 1986, and after more than three decades in the doldrums, Chicago reached the Super Bowl again in 2007 only to come up short in the final, losing to the Indianapolis Colts. Since then the Bears have steadily built on their comeback and once again look like genuine championship threats this year.

The Bears v the Eagles Monday Night Football game has all of the elements in place to be an absolute classic. The game will be screened live on ESPN - all the action starts at 8:30 PM ET.

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Since Lovie Smith's appointment as head coach of the Chicago Bears in 2004, he has made steady and consistent progress with the team, highlighted by their 2006-2007 season that saw them go 13-3 on their way to winning the NFC North division, defeating the New Orleans Saints 39-14 to win the NFC championship - their first since 1985 - but ultimately lose 29-17 to the Indianapolis Colts in Super Bowl XLI.

Surprisingly, the Bears failed to build upon their success, slumping to the foot of the NFC North in 2007, but were back in contention the following season, just one win separating them from champions the Minnesota Vikings. In 2009 they could only finish third, yet they stormed to the title in 2010, winning eleven out of sixteen games and picking up the NFC North division crown for the third time in five years.

With super talented Chicago quarterback Jay Cutler running the show, the Bears look loaded for action, and ready to push on from where they left off last season. Without doubt, they are amongst most experts top-five Super Bowl contenders, as are their rivals on Monday night – the Philadelphia Eagles.

The Eagles have been stuck with the tag ''The Greatest Team Never To Win The Super Bowl'', and will continue to be called that until they get that monkey off their back and put their hands on a Vince Lombardi trophy. Historically, Philadelphia are no slouches; they twice won the NFL championship back in the pre-Super Bowl days, and have twice made the final of the Super Bowl, most recently in 2005 when they were defeated 24-21 by the New England Patriots.

Since the late 1970's the Eagles have been a regular feature in the NFL postseason playoffs, with four appearances in the 80's, and four more in the 90's, but since the turn of the new millennium, Philadelphia have become the most relentlessly consistent team in pro football, making the playoffs no less than nine times in eleven seasons, yet still that first Vince Lombardi Trophy eludes them.

There is even more added pressure for them to succeed this year; since the lifting of the lockout on July 25, Eagles head coach Andy Reid and general manager Howie Roseman have signed a steady stream of top quality players, leading pundits to dub them the ''Dream Team.'' So far the Eagles have added the likes of Cullen Jenkins, Jason Babin, Ronnie Brown, Vince Young, Nnamdi Asomugha and Steve Smith to their roster. They signed no less than fourteen players in the first two weeks following the demise of the lockout. The feeling among many fans and critics is if the Eagles can't go all the way this year – will they ever?

Will the Eagles" Dream Team" steamroller their way to the Super Bowl? By week nine we will have a good insight into how both Philadelphia and Chicago are performing in their quest for glory. Their recent head-to-head shows the Eagles 5-3 up in this millennium, although their most recent encounter last November saw the Bears emerge victorious 31-26 at Soldier Field.

Without a shadow of a doubt, there will be few Monday Night Football games as big and as meaningful as Philadelphia v Chicago this season, and for those not fortunate enough to be in the Lincoln Financial Field to witness the action live, they will just have to make do with ESPN's fantastic live coverage, in the comfort of their own home or down at their favorite sports bar!

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