“F— the Packers!”: Ben Johnson’s Locker Room Speech Is Proof Bears Finally Got The Guy

The Chicago Bears have had many head coaches walk through their doors. Very few of them ever fully understood the magnitude of the rivalry with the Green Bay Packers and how much it meant to the city. Dave Wannstedt never got it. Dick Jauron never got it. Neither did Marc Trestman, John Fox, Matt Nagy, or Matt Eberflus. Only Mike Ditka and Lovie Smith seemed to grasp it. They took it seriously and seemed to get rewarded for it with loads of team success. Which category would Ben Johnson fall into?