If you analyze the grand history of the two franchises that knocked heads at Soldier Field today, you'll see that the Green Bay Packers are known for their quarterbacks (Herber, Isbell, Starr, Dickey, Majkowski, Favre, Rodgers) and the Bears are not.

(Think Wade, Douglass, Avellini, Evans, McMahon, Fuller, Tomczak, Kramer, Burris, Grossman, Orton, Cutler among the list of not-so All-Pro QB's.)

You'll also notice the Bears are known for their running game and defense, and although the Packers have had their share of both, that has never been the team's most publicized modus operandi.

How ironic, yet appropriate, was it that the Packers got a season sweep of the Chicago Bears with a 21-14 victory that was won Chicago style, without the ketchup, but with powerful running and with opportunistic defense.

Notice I didn't say dominating defense, because for the equivalent of one half of football (the 2nd and 3rd quarters), Chicago had its way with the Packers, especially with a receiver of the last name of Aromashodu, which seems like a name with the equivalence of a Japanese potpourri product.

But in the 4th quarter, with Green Bay in serious trouble, Nick Collins gave the yellow mustard on this beautiful-tasting Chicago Style hot dog, pulling off a game-changing interception, running the ball halfway into the red zone.

That set up Ryan Grant for the eventual game winning score, the neon green relish in this recipe.

Grant had to have a dominating day with Aaron Rodgers being somewhat off-target for a good amount of the day, especially on 3rd down.

Grant did just that, with a 137-yard, two touchdown day, the kind of day we've been waiting for all season long, the resurgence of his late-season 2007 performance.

He began the day with the onions and peppers on the dog, a beautiful 62-yard scamper on the first play from scrimmage when the Bears looked like they were in the old 46 look with 315 men in the box. (OK, I exaggerate.)

Plus, the Packers gave the dash of celery salt by shutting down the Chicago run game, with just 59 yards rushing on the day.

That, plus the Chicago Bears decided to play Packers-style ball and get penalized 13 times, killing many of their own possibilities, and the Packers only allowed themselves to commit four penalties.

I hope the Packers stop off at a place like Portillo's, Fluky's or another traditional Chicago-style dog place, because they deserve a good meal after a hard-fought win to move them to 9-4.

It was a win high in diastolic blood pressure, like a good Chicago style dog will do to you.

But it did the job. Chicago style.