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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.
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 won four of the six championship games, which included the Sneakers Game that the Giants won in the 1934 NFL Championship Game. The two teams also met in the 1985 and 1990 playoffs , splitting each meeting en route to a Super Bowl championship (Bears in Super Bowl XX , Giants in Super Bowl XXV ).
The 1963 Chicago Bears season was their 44th regular season and 12th post-season appearance in the National Football League.The team finished with an 11–1–2 record (the best of the 4th and final Halas era) to gain their first Western Conference championship since 1956, and the berth to host the NFL Championship Game against the New York Giants (11–3–0).
Prior to joining his new teammates, he attended the Bears' game against the Green Bay Packers at Cubs Park, a game they won 21–0. [29] Former Yale player Tim Callahan also announced he had secured Grange for a December Florida league he had organized. [37] Grange is the last player to play both college football and in the NFL in the same season.
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. As a rookie ...
Butkus returned to the Bears as a color analyst on radio broadcasts in 1985, teaming with first-year play-by-play man Wayne Larrivee and former St. Louis Cardinals quarterback Jim Hart. He was hired as the replacement for Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder on CBS 's pregame show The NFL Today in 1988, [ 105 ] serving as an analyst through 1989.
The Bears were in the midst of a 1–13 season in 1969, the worst record in their history. [16] Piccolo had earned a place in the starting lineup as an undersized fullback. Their only win came in the eighth game on November 9, a 38–7 home win over struggling Pittsburgh.