{"id":408382,"date":"2026-01-14T09:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T09:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/408382\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T09:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T09:51:09","slug":"bears-wild-card-win-vs-packers-was-most-streamed-game-in-nfl-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/408382\/","title":{"rendered":"Bears&#8217; wild-card win vs. Packers was most streamed game in NFL history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/bearswire.usatoday.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Chicago Bears;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Chicago Bears<\/a> have made history all season, and they did it once more in their wild-card win over the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/green-bay-packers\/335\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Green Bay Packers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Green Bay Packers<\/a> last Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/chicago-bears\/326\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Bears;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Bears<\/a>-Packers&#8217; wild-card playoff matchup was the most streamed game in NFL history, logging 31.6 million viewers on Amazon Prime Video, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AndrewMarchand\/status\/2011197430511906854?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Andrew Marchand;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Andrew Marchand<\/a>. The previous high was 27.5 million for Netflix on Christmas Day.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Chicago overcame a 21-3 deficit at halftime, scoring 25 points in the fourth quarter for their NFL record seventh fourth-quarter comeback in a single season (including the playoffs). Quarterback Caleb Williams led four consecutive scoring drives, three of them touchdowns, while the Bears defense came up with some big stops after a rough first half. It&#8217;s what Chicago has done all season &#8212; keeping it close and then locking down in the fourth quarter. And this time, a record-breaking audience saw the whole thing.<\/p>\n<p>The Bears are set to host the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/los-angeles-rams\/343\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Los Angeles Rams;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Los Angeles Rams<\/a> in the divisional round of the NFC playoffs, which will air at 5:30 p.m. CT on NBC. And considering Chicago and Los Angeles are two of the top markets in the NFL, we could be looking at another record-setting game, outside of the play on the field.<\/p>\n<p>Follow Bears Wire on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TheBearsWire\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Twitter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Twitter<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheBearsWire\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bearswireusat\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Instagram;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Bears Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/bearswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/bears\/2026\/01\/13\/bears-packers-wild-card-most-streamed-game-nfl-history\/88168402007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Bears&#039; wild-card win vs. Packers was most streamed game in NFL history;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Bears&#8217; wild-card win vs. Packers was most streamed game in NFL history<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chicago Bears have made history all season, and they did it once more in their wild-card win&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[5318,16073,49,1755,48,1735,1730,1522,1749,514,82,44967,172060],"class_list":["post-408382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-amazon-prime-video","tag-andrew-marchand","tag-ca","tag-caleb-williams","tag-canada","tag-chicago-bears","tag-green-bay-packers","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-rams","tag-nfl","tag-sports","tag-the-bears","tag-wild-card-playoff-matchup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}