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m The Bears win in Super Bowl XX, marked the franchise's first Super Bowl victory and their ninth league championship. n The strike of 1987 reduced the regular season schedule from 16 to 15 games. o The Divisional Playoff game against the Eagles was known as the Fog Bowl due to the heavy fog that covered the field for most of the game.
Super Bowl XX was played on January 26, 1986, at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans. This was the fourth Super Bowl and, to date, the last time in which both teams made their Super Bowl debuts. [a] The Bears entered the game after becoming the
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). As of the 2023 season, the Bears lead the ...
Super Bowl III in January 1969 was the first such game that carried the "Super Bowl" moniker in official marketing; the names "Super Bowl I" and "Super Bowl II" were retroactively applied to the first two games. [4] A total of 20 franchises, including teams that have relocated to another city or changed their name, have won the Super Bowl. [5]
CHICAGO — Former Chicago Bears executive Jerry Vainisi, the general manager when the team won Super Bowl XX in January 1986, died Tuesday at age 80. Vainisi served as Bears GM for four seasons ...
The three division winners were seeded 1–3 based on their overall won-lost-tied record, and received a first-round bye while the wild card teams were seeded 4 and 5, and played in the first round, dubbed the wild-card playoffs or wild-card weekend, with the 4 seed hosting.
In the first-ever NFC 3 vs. 6 game, the Bears defeated the New Orleans Saints 16–6 to advance to a divisional playoff showdown against the New York Giants, who defeated the Bears 31–3 and went on to win Super Bowl XXV. The Bears made a return trip to the playoffs in 1991 with an 11–5 record in a season that saw Ditka earn his 100th career ...
Bears 64–44–5 Bears win Super Bowl XX. 1986: Bears 2–0: Bears 13–7: Bears 16–13: Bears 66–44–5 1987: Bears 1–0: Bears 30–10: canceled: Bears 67–44–5 Due to the 1987 NFL Players' strike, the game scheduled in Detroit was canceled. Highlights of the game in Chicago were shown during the Max Headroom broadcast intrusion. 1988 ...