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Since the NFL's first season in 1920, the league title had been awarded to the team with the best regular season record based on winning percentage with ties excluded.. While four of the first six championships were disputed, only once (in 1921) did two teams finish tied for first place in the standings: the Chicago Staleys, who became the Bears the following year, and the Buffalo All ...
k As of the 2010 NFL season, this season marks the last tie game the Bears played. It was a game at Soldier Field on September 24, 1972, against the Los Angeles Rams. The game ended at 13–13. l The 1982 season was a strike-shortened season so the league was divided up into two conferences instead of its normal divisional alignment.
Despite ending with a league championship, the 1932 season was a financial disaster for the Bears, who lost $18,000 on the season. [3] This was the only year during which the team lost money outside of the 1921 season , when the team's books closed $71.63 in the red.
The Bears were in their first Championship Game since a loss to the Giants in 1956 at Yankee Stadium, and had last won in 1946, defeating the Giants at the Polo Grounds. This was the fifth and final NFL Championship Game at Wrigley Field, which hosted the first in 1933, as well as 1937, 1941, and 1943. The Bears won four, with the only loss in ...
The Bears would play in the NFL Championship Game two more times that decade, losing both of them. In 1935 and 1936, the Bears remained somewhat competitive, but failed to qualify for the Championship. In 1937, they made a return to the Championship Game, but fell short as Sammy Baugh and the Washington Redskins won 28–21.
The 1943 NFL Championship Game was the 11th annual title game of the National Football League (NFL), held at Wrigley Field in Chicago on December 26 with an attendance of 34,320. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] In a rematch of the previous year's game , the Western Division champion Chicago Bears (8–1–1) met the Eastern Division champion Washington ...
Justin Fields (2021–2023) Mitchell Trubisky (2017–2020) Jay Cutler, who holds multiple Bears franchise passing records [1] (2009–2016) Kyle Orton started 15 games in 2008 Rex Grossman, who played for the Bears in Super Bowl XLI in 2006 (2003–2008) Jim McMahon, who won the Bears' only Super Bowl in 1985 (1982–1988)
The Redskins scored first when Baugh led the team down to the Chicago 7-yard line, where he slipped the ball to Battles on a reverse for the game's first touchdown. [6] The Bears came back, however, as halfback Jack Manders scored the next fourteen points for the Bears: a touchdown run, a touchdown pass reception, and two extra points. Chicago ...