The Chicago Bears and Buffalo Bills moved their show north of the border yesterday to Canada as part of a five-year 
contract with the Rodgers Centre in Toronto. With the Bills playing host, the Bears came out of Canada with a 22-19 win, improving their record to 5-3 and dropping the Bills to a league-worst 0-8.
Bears quarterback Jay Cutler completed 17-of-30 passes for two touchdowns and Bills QB Ryan Fitzpatrick connected on 31-of-51 passes with two interceptions. In previous games the running game with Matt Forte had worked best for Chicago but coach Lovie Smith opted for more of a passing game and the offense struggled on Sunday.
In the end, it was a typical Bears win with the defense making the difference. Tim Jennings took an interception to the Buffalo 23-yard line setting up a Cutler to Earl Bennett three-yard score.
With 52 seconds remaining in the game, Bears defensive lineman Julius Peppers was injured and after being tended to for several minutes, exited the field under his own power.
The win moved the Bears to (5-3) one win behind the Green Bay Packers (6-3) in the NFC North Division standings. The Packers blew out the Dallas Cowboys 45-7 on SNF.
Perhaps Sunday’s Bears victory was an extension of the celebrating surrounding the ’85 team that won Super Bowl XX. On Friday night, many of the players from that “Monsters of the Midway” roster joined ex-coach Mike Ditka at Chicago’s Arie Crown Theater in the Allstate Glory Days Event.
Ditka was joined on stage by Richard Dent, Dave Duerson, Gary Fencik, Dan Hampton, Tyrone Keys, Dennis McKinnon, Jim McMahon, Steve McMichael, Emery Moorehead, Matt Suhey, Tom Thayer and Otis Wilson, among others to reminisce about that championship team.
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Miriam Romain is a Chicago-based sportswriter and national columnist covering the Chicago Cubs for Examiner.com. The Windy City native is also the Associate Editor for SBNation Chicago and has been published in the Maple Street Press Cubs annuals. In her free time, Romain is working on a book titled “Summers At Wrigley With My Dad.”
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