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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 .
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 First Fifty Years, a 1969 book that chronicles the first half century of the NFL, listed the game as one of "Ten Games That Mattered" to the growth of pro football in the United States. [13] "On a Sunday in the 1940 December," the book states, "the Chicago Bears played perfect football for a greater percentage of the official hour than any ...
After Halas returned to the team in 1946 and many players returned from service in the war, the team was able to find their old magic again, finishing the regular season 8–2–1 to claim another Western Division title and a return trip to the Championship Game. The Bears won their last NFL Championship of the decade over the New York Giants ...
The 1943 Championship Game was held in Wrigley Field, Chicago, on December 26 and featured the Western Division champion Chicago Bears and the Eastern Division champion Washington Redskins. There were 34,320 fans in attendance, generating a new record for gross gate receipts for a championship — $120,500.05. [ 12 ]
“Bear Down, Chicago Bears” was released the year after the Bears won the 1940 NFL championship by defeating the Redskins 73-0. Sources: Chicago Bears; Soldier Field; NFL; Tribune research ...
It was Green Bay's first loss of the year after starting 4-0; the Packers would go on to win the next six games and finished 13-3, but two losses came to the Bears. 2008: Chicago won the overtime ...
Currently, WMVP (1000 AM) broadcast Bears games with Jeff Joniak doing the play-by-play, along with color commentator Tom Thayer, who played for the Bears from 1985 to 1992. [ 281 ] [ 282 ] [ 283 ] Over the years, many Bears play-by-play broadcasters have included play-by-play announcers Jack Brickhouse , Joe McConnell and Wayne Larrivee , and ...