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The 1977 Chicago Bears season was their 58th regular season completed in the National Football League.The team finished with a 9–5 record, which was their first winning season since 1967 and earned them a wild card spot against the Dallas Cowboys, who eventually beat the Bears 37–7 en route to a Super Bowl victory.
Walter Payton set several franchise and NFL records in rushing during his 13-season career with the Bears. The following is a list of Pro Football Hall of Famers that have been a major contributor to the Bears, along with the year of their induction.
Regular season [ edit ] Justin Fields (2021–2023) Mitchell Trubisky (2017–2020) Jay Cutler , who holds multiple Bears franchise passing records [ 1 ] (2009–2016) Kyle Orton started 15 games in 2008 Rex Grossman , who played for the Bears in Super Bowl XLI in 2006 (2003–2008) Jim McMahon , who won the Bears' only Super Bowl in 1985 (1982 ...
The Chicago Bears franchise was founded as the Decatur Staleys, a charter member of the American Professional Football Association (APFA). The team moved to Chicago, Illinois, in 1921 and changed its name to the Bears in 1922, the same year the APFA changed its name to the National Football League (NFL).
The 1977 season is considered the last season of the "Dead Ball Era" of professional football (1970 to 1977). The 17.2 average points scored per team per game was the lowest since 1942, and it was the only post-merger NFL season where no player surpassed 1,000 receiving yards. For 1978, the league made significant changes to allow greater ...
Payton proceeded to win the 1977 AP NFL Most Valuable Player Award and won Super Bowl XX with the 1985 Chicago Bears. He retired from football at the end of the 1987 season having rushed for at least 1,200 yards in 10 of his 13 seasons in the NFL (with two of those thirteen being lockout-shortened seasons).
The Chicago game was one of several "pro vs. rookie" college all-star games held across the United States in its early years (the 1939 season featured seven such games, all of which the NFL teams won in shutouts, and the season prior featured eight, with some of the collegiate players playing in multiple games). Chicago's game had the benefit ...
[177] [178] The team was the first in the NFL to have a presenting sponsor, with the 2004 season advertised as "Bears Football presented by BankOne (now Chase)". Additionally, the Bears have an agreement with WFLD (the Fox owned-and-operated station in Chicago) to broadcast pre-season football games. [179]