5-and-prime for Bears; '07 Schedule - After Super Bowl appearance, team becomes nighttime TV fixture

In the NFL's second-largest media market, the Bears always havecaptured the interest of national TV executives. So coming off anappearance in Super Bowl XLI, they will be a fixture in prime timein 2007.

Quickly trying to put the news of its ramped-up personal conductpolicy behind it, the league released the schedule Wednesday, withthe Bears ticketed for five prime-time games, four of them on theroad.

"Normally the more attractive teams get a chance to play duringprime time," coach Lovie Smith said in a statement. "It'sunfortunate for our fans we have only one at home."

After having statistically the league's easiest schedule lastyear, the Bears will be …