Ask anyone about the last time the Chicago Bears and Philadelphia Eagles met in the playoffs, and their memories will probably be foggy.

        Real foggy.

        The Bears beat the Eagles 20-12 on Dec. 31, 1988, but the details, well, they're really anybody's guess. Just before halftime that day, a dense fog rolled in off Lake Michigan.

        Visibility was so bad — 15 to 20 yards, at most — even the players couldn't tell what was happening.

        One said he could tell what happened on a play only by listening to the cheers of the crowd.

        “The Bears' defense was playing really well, and everybody here knows that the Philadelphia defense was pretty good,” said current Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb, who was a 12-year-old Bears fan when the Fog Bowl was played.

        “It's going to be the same kind of game again,” the Chicago native added. “It'll be a playoff game, but it'll be fun.”

        And probably a lot clearer. Forecasts for today's game between the Bears and Eagles call for mostly cloudy skies, with highs in the 20s.

        Fog shouldn't be a factor tonight in Foxboro, Mass., either, but snow could limit the passing of Tom Brady of the New England Patriots and Rich Gannon of the Oakland Raiders. At stake is a shot at the AFC Championship.

        Gannon this season was the AFC's leading passer and led the Raiders to a 38-24 playoff win over the New York Jets last weekend.

        Brady, a sixth-round pick out of Michigan in 2000, took over after starter Drew Bledsoe was hurt in the second game and went 11-3.

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