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The 1985 season was the Chicago Bears' 66th in the National Football League (NFL) and their fourth under head coach Mike Ditka. The Bears entered 1985 looking to improve on their 10–6 record from 1984 and advance further than the NFC Championship Game, where they lost to the 15–1 San Francisco 49ers. The Bears did improve on that record ...
The Bears played in four straight NFL Championship Games between 1940 and 1943, winning three of them, including an NFL record 73–0 victory over the Washington Redskins in 1940. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] The second period of success was between 1984 and 1991 when the Bears captured six NFC Central Division titles in eight years and won Super Bowl XX .
The 1985 NFL season was the 66th regular season of the National Football League. The season ended with Super Bowl XX when the Chicago Bears defeated the New England Patriots 46–10 at the Louisiana Superdome. The Bears became the second team in NFL history (after the previous season's San Francisco 49ers) to win 15 games in the regular season ...
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The NFL did not use a fixed-bracket playoff system. The three division winners were seeded 1–3 based on their overall won-lost-tied record, and received a first-round bye while the wild card teams were seeded 4 and 5, and played in the first round, dubbed the wild-card playoffs or wild-card weekend , with the 4 seed hosting.
Chicago Bears football has a bye in Week 7 of the NFL season. Here's the Bears schedule after the off week.
The Bears' NFL championships and overall victories are second behind the Green Bay Packers, [10] [11] [12] with whom they have a long-standing rivalry. [13] The franchise was founded in Decatur, Illinois, on September 20, 1919, [14] [15] [16] became professional on September 17, 1920, and moved to Chicago in 1921.
The 1985 Miami Dolphins won 12 games and advanced to the AFC Championship Game, falling short of a second consecutive Super Bowl appearance.