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Further complicating matters, though the Spartans and Bears had played each other twice during the regular season and the league's head-to-head tiebreaker accounted for a split two-game series, this tiebreaker only applied if each team won one game: the winner of the second game would be awarded the tiebreaker and the championship. As the two ...
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 team reached the NFC Championship game, losing to the San Francisco 49ers 23–0, in 1984. [60] In the 1985 season the fire in the Bears–Packers rivalry was re-lit when Ditka used 315-pound defensive tackle "Refrigerator" Perry as a running back in a touchdown play at Lambeau Field, against the Packers. [61]
But ESPN analytics detailing win probability at each play point of the game reflect how unlikely a comeback already was. The Bears had a 4.9% chance to win before the fumble, per ESPN’s model ...
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 ...
One team had to fire its coach and the other can't get healthy. That will be the theme when the Chicago Bears go on the road to play the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday for Week 14 of the NFL ...
The Bears had chances to beat all three division opponents, but the Packers blocked a game-winning FG attempt by Cairo Santos, the Vikings escaped Chicago with a 30-27 overtime win and the Lions ...
The defending champion Bears entered the game undefeated at 13–0, with an 18-game winning streak. The Giants (8–5) won consecutive division titles, but had lost their final regular season game at Philadelphia. The Bears were favored to repeat as champions. [7] [8] [9] A freezing rain the night before the game froze the Polo Grounds field. [10]