New Year's resolutions abound for both the Chicago Bears and Minnesota Vikings, who meet Sunday in Minneapolis in the last game of bitterly disappointing seasons for both teams.

The Bears played in the NFC Championship game just 11 months ago and were looking like they could make another deep playoff run this season, starting out 7-3, when quarterback Jay Cutler broke his thumb on November 20 near the end of a win over the San Diego Chargers. 

The Bears haven't won since, dropping their last five games in their longest losing streak since 2002.

For the Vikings, the 2011 season can't end soon enough.

Minnesota needs a win over Chicago to avoid matching the worst record in franchise history at 3-13.

The Vikings began the season with high hopes, but never recovered from blowing big leads in their first three games and since then the losses have piled up. Minnesota needs to beat Chicago to avoid losing all of their division games for the first time in their history.

The Bears will start Josh McCown at quarterback for the second straight week over Caleb Hanie, who played poorly in four starts after Cutler's injury. McCown was decent in a loss to the Packers last weekend.

The Vikings look forward to one last look at rookie Christian Ponder at quarterback. Ponder initially played well after taking over the starting job from Donovan McNabb, but has regressed in the last month. Ponder should have a chance to play well against the Bears, who are 28th in the league against the pass.

Sunday's game will be the last of a 13-year career for Vikings tight end Jim Kleinsasser and the Vikings have vowed to try to get the North Dakota native into the end zone in his last game.

Though it may be just one of four games on Sunday with no playoff implications, it's still the Bears against the Vikings and one last shot to look at teams who hope to get back on track in 2012.

So follow along as we give you instant analysis and commentary as the Vikings try to stop a four game losing streak to the Bears in this classic rivalry game.