The Chicago Bears celebrated their Black Friday win over the Philadelphia Eagles as if they’d won the Super Bowl.

Players celebrated wildly and coach Ben Johnson danced shirtless in the postgame locker room, his team having ascended to the top-seeded position in the NFC.

Hard to fault the Bears, given they’re 9-3 and better than anyone expected. And it’s not like their celebration was as brazen as 1985, when Chicago celebrated the impending arrival of the Lombardi Trophy six weeks before Super Bowl XX was actually played in the Louisiana Superdome when they released the iconic video “The Super Bowl Shuffle.”

Those Bears beat the New England Patriots 46-10 with a team most everyone considers to be among the top single-season teams in NFL history.

And here come the Patriots, who have bee

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