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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 .
In 1938, the Bears fell off the NFL map, with a record of 6–5. The Bears finished off the decade on a down note, losing twice to the Green Bay Packers in 1939. During the late 1930s, George Halas and University of Chicago football coach Clark Shaughnessy collaborated on a revolutionary approach to the offense and the quarterback position.
The NFL draft, officially known as the "NFL Annual Player Selection Meeting", [14] [15] [16] is an annual event which serves as the league's most common source of player recruitment. [17] The draft order is determined based on the previous season's standings; the teams with the worst win–loss records receive the earliest picks.
Here is a year-by-year list of every Super Bowl: NEVER MISS A SNAP: Sign up to get the latest NFL news and features delivered directly to your inbox Super Bowl history
The second day of the 2024 NFL Draft has concluded, and the Chicago Bears brought in offensive lineman Kiran Amegadjie to pair with an elite duo of quarterback Caleb Williams and receiver Rome Odunze.
The rivalry grew in 1932, when the Bears and Spartans met in the first-ever postseason game in NFL history, with the Bears winning the game 9–0. The game also was known as the first pro "indoor football" game, as the game took place in indoor Chicago Stadium due to a blizzard at the time. The game also started the forward pass. [197]
The Bears looked to improve on an 11–4 finish that won them the NFC Central Division but ended abruptly when they were eliminated for the second consecutive year by the Washington Redskins. The Bears won 12 games and lost 4, tying for the best record in the league with the Buffalo Bills and the AFC Champion Cincinnati Bengals .
The team improved from their 8–8 record from 1983, to a 10–6 record, earning them a spot in the NFL playoffs. The Bears went on to lose in the NFC Championship Game 23–0 to the eventual Super Bowl Champion San Francisco 49ers led by Joe Montana. This was the first of five consecutive NFC Central titles for the Bears.