Article: Flanigan: `I Hate Pack' // Bears Pumped for Monday Night

There was a time Bears defensive tackle Jim Flanigan was about the only guy on the team this side of Kevin Butler who understood the significance of the NFL's oldest rivalry.

No more. Flanigan, a native of Green Bay, Wis., and the son of a Super Bowl-winning Packer, doesn't want the hype to surround him Monday night when the Bears face the Packers on national television (8 p.m., Ch. 7).

"Everyone made a big deal of it last year," Flanigan said of his hometown connections. "For me and the rest of the Bears, it's just another game now. A division game, that's what makes it important. All that stuff generated by the press last year as far as the big rivalry and my friends at home and my ...

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