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Due to blizzard conditions in Chicago, the game was played at Chicago Stadium, [32] [33] marking it as the first indoor American football game. The success of the playoff game led the NFL to institute a championship game. In the first NFL Championship, the Bears played against the New York Giants, defeating them 23–21.
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.
[30] Its biggest legacy, however, was the creation of the NFL Championship Game in 1933, the NFL's original championship game, a precursor to the Super Bowl. [31] NFL Commissioner Joseph Carr described the rule changes as providing better scoring opportunities, which he believed "would improve the game for both players and spectators." Carr had ...
The Chicago Bears snapped multiple losing streaks as Cairo Santos drilled a 51-yard field goal to drop the Green Bay Packers in the NFC playoff seeding.
After an incredible 347 days without a win in the National Football League (NFL), the Chicago Bears finally ended their drought with a 40-20 victory against the Washington Commanders on Thursday ...
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)
When he was released by the Bears after the 1995 season, he was the last remaining holdover from the Super Bowl XX team. Butler finished his 13 NFL seasons with 265 of 361 field goals (73%) and 413 of 426 extra point attempts, giving him 1,208 total points, sixth-most in NFL history among kickers.
CHICAGO — Over his first three NFL seasons, Chicago Bears tight end Cole Kmet became a master in treading water, learning how to paddle, thrash and kick to stay afloat when the seas got rough.