Article: Bears Try to Avoid Subject Of a Monday Night Curse

The Bears will be battling more than the Minnesota Vikings tonight at the Metrodome (8, Ch. 7, 720-AM).

They're fighting the Curse of Monday Nights.

Coach Dave Wannstedt ducked the issue all week, saying only "if we played the way we've played on Monday nights on any given Sunday, we'd have gotten the same results."

The Bears have lost eight straight Monday night games and are 3-17 on the road on Mondays. The Bears have the most Monday night losses (26 against just 12 victories) and the longest current Monday night losing streak in the league.

That's why they are three-point underdogs to the 3-4 Vikings, who have lost their last two games to the Bears by 17 points each, including ...

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