After his game-winning kick against Green Bay on Sunday, Chicago's Santos took inspiration from a legend at his beloved Chelsea
Seconds after nailing a 51-yard game-winning field goal, Chicago Bears kicker Cairo Santos hit Didier Drogba's celebration at Lambeau Field. The Bears were staring down an 11-game losing streak to close out the season before Santos delivered the winning kick against the Green Bay Packers with no time left on the clock.
Santos converted his lone field-goal attempt in the Bears' 24-22 win over the Packers on Sunday. Santos posted six or fewer points in each of Chicago's last six games. In addition, the kicker recorded more than seven points in two of 17 games.
Cairo Santos' 51-yard field goal that led the Bears to beat the Packers as time expired was a build up of emotions and adrenaline for the veteran kicker, who told reporters Sunday after the game that
The Bears’ most disappointing season in recent memory — maybe ever — came to an end Sunday in a most unexpected way. On matriarch Virginia McCaskey’s 102nd birthday, the 5-12 Bears beat the rival Packers as time expired.
The Bears came to Lambeau Field and stunned Green Bay, 24-22, snapping the Packers’ 11-game winning streak in this series. That had been the longest streak by either side in this sensational 104-year rivalry.
Another fourth-quarter drive engineered by our talented rookie quarterback, and this time, Cairo Santos’ game-winning field-goal attempt sailed through the uprights untouched. Goodbye 10-game
Chicago Bears "just let it out" to top the Green Bay Packers for the first time in six seasons on Cairo Santos’ winning field goal.
With two seconds remaining in a dreadful 2024 season for the Bears, Santos got his chance. The 33-year-old booted a low trajectory ball that traveled 51 yards and through the upri
Kicker Cairo Santos delivers the Chicago Bears their first win since October 13, 2024, and first against the Green Bay Packers since 2018, with a 51-yard walk off field goal against the Green Bay Packers.
Chicago Bears quarterback Caleb Williams warms on the field before the Bears play the Green Bay Packers at Lambeau Field on Jan. 5, 2025, in Green Bay, Wisconsin. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune) Photos from the Chicago Bears’ Week 18 game against the Green Bay Packers at Lambeau Field on Jan. 5, 2025.