Eagles-Bears Alliance officially over, Cold War set to turn hot on Black Friday 2025

The old adage says, “The enemy of my enemy is my friend.” That was the belief the Eagles and Bears subscribed to at the start of this season, as each was tasked with vanquishing the other’s divisional foes.

It was a successful alliance, a combined 6-0. But what the adage doesn’t say is, when our common enemies are defeated, what are we to do about each other? Well, dear reader, history has given us the answer a multitude of times.

Simply put, we are due for all-out war.

The Eagles-Bears Alliance is officially dead, and the first battle is coming on Black Friday 2025:

“They said unity was victory. But when the banners burned, and the trenches filled… the world chose sides. And silence became war.”

The War of Alliances. Black Friday. South Philly.#FlyEaglesFly | #GoBirds pic.twitter.com/ffhZyvvxl0

— The Liberty Line (@LibertyLinePHL) November 25, 2025

As a geopolitics wonk and TLL’s resident international relations expert, I see a ton of parallels between these two teams and the complicated history between the USSR and the United States after defeating Nazi Germany in WWII.

The NFC playoff seeding has been divied up between them, and peace is technically here. But tensions are bubbling under the surface. While the Americans and Soviets had a Cold War that lasted decades, with a game scheduled on Friday, this Cold War for NFC supremacy is set to turn hot very, very quickly.

Sadly for the Bears and the Eagles, it always had to be this way. This Alliance could only have existed while also guaranteeing they would face off at one point this season. And that’s all thanks to the NFL schedulers.

You’d think, being an Eagles fan, I’d want my team set up as a member of the Allied Forces. Instead, I’m opting to take us down a different timeline. I care not about who is on the “right side” of an ideological war that never needed to happen. I am simply a student of Soviet history who has to balance his immense interest in the USSR with the Rusophobia he feels as a result of his American patriotism.

I’m sure you’re sitting there wondering, well, if Jalen Hurts is Joseph Stalin and Caleb Williams is FDR, then who is Hitler in all of this? The answer, of course, is Jordan Love.

But, of course, this is where the shoehorned similarities concocted by a writer with a grasp on reality that loosens by the minute since he landed in Texas for the Eagles’ matchup with the Cowboys. What we have is a war on the gridiron, not in the marketplace of ideas.

In the end, the Alliance is well and truly dead. In the NFL, there are no proxy wars. There are no soft power campaigns. And, most tragically, there is no space or nuclear arms race. There is only football. 11 men take on 11 men in the field of battle. And only one team can prevail (unless you’re the Packers and the Cowboys, who are Germany and Japan in our story).

So, weep not for the death of the alliance. Instead, look towards the future of a great and powerful Soviet Republic of Philadelphia. Soon we will dance on the graves of the capitalist pigs of Chicago. We will use them to fertilize the soil of the revolution. And we shall sing songs of the old republic to christen the new.

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