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Due to the size limitations of the arena, the length of the football field was only 80 yards. In the 1932 season, the Bears and the Portsmouth Spartans tied for first place in the league, and played an "unofficial" championship playoff game at Chicago Stadium on December 18. The Bears won 9–0 and captured the championship before 11,198 fans.
On September 29, 2003, the Bears played their first game at the renovated Soldier Field, in which they were defeated by the Green Bay Packers, 38–23. The total funding for the renovation cost $632 million; taxpayers were responsible for $432 million while the Chicago Bears and the NFL contributed $200 million. [27] [28]
The Bears would only draw roughly 5,000–6,000 fans a game, while a University of Chicago game would draw 40,000–50,000 fans a game. By adding top college football draw Red Grange to the roster, the Bears knew that they found something to draw more fans to their games.
This game was the first time in which the NFL used an 80-yard field: the next occasion was 87 years later, when in 2019, the Raiders and Packers met at IG Field in Winnipeg for a preseason game. IG Field, home to the Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the Canadian Football League, normally has goal posts 110 yards apart. After the posts were moved for ...
Team also played in stadium from 1902 to 1908 prior to joining the NFL [26] [27] Bellevue Park: Green Bay Packers: Preble, Wisconsin: 1923 1924 Site of first Packers-Bears game [28] Frankford Stadium: Frankford Yellow Jackets: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: 1923 1931 [29] Sportsman's Park: St. Louis All-Stars, St. Louis Gunners: St. Louis ...
The First Fifty Years, a 1969 book that chronicles the first half-century of the NFL, listed the 1933 NFL Championship game as the first of "Ten [Games] That Mattered." [23] The National Football League's first championship game was as good as it should have been," says the book. "There are great occasions and great games, but they rarely get ...
The new Chicago Bears Stadium is a proposed fixed-roof stadium to be constructed on the Museum Campus in Chicago, Illinois or possibly in Arlington Heights, Illinois at the site of the former Arlington Park Race Track. It would be the home of the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL). Construction is hoped for 2025 and is hoped to ...
The 1932 NFL Playoff Game was moved indoors to Chicago Stadium due to bad weather and saw the Bears winning 9–0 to be named NFL Champions. Despite its name, the game was officially included in the final standings, leading to the Bears finishing with a 7–1–6 record and the Spartans finishing with a 6–2–4 record, behind the second-place ...