Bears beat Redskins 73-0 in NFL Championship game - Dec 08, 1940 - HISTORY.com Bears beat Redskins 73-0 in NFL Championship game Share this: Bears beat Redskins 73-0 in NFL Championship game Author Bears beat Redskins 73-0 in NFL Championship game URL Publisher A+E Networks On this day in 1940, the Chicago Bears trounce the Washington Redskins in the National Football League (NFL) Championship by a score of 73-0, the largest margin of defeat in NFL history. The Bears, coached by George Halas, brought a 6-2 record to their regular-season meeting with the Redskins in Washington on November 17, 1940. After Chicago lost 3-7, the Redskins coach, George Preston Marshall, told reporters that Halas and his team were “quitters” and “cry babies.” Halas used Marshall’s words to galvanize his players, and the Bears scored 78 points in their next two games to set up a showdown with the Redskins in the league’s championship game on December 8, also in Washington.

Less than a minute into the game, the Bears’ running back Bill Osmanski ran 68 yards to score the first touchdown. After the Redskins narrowly missed an opportunity to tie the game, the Bears clamped down and began to dominate, leaving the field at halftime with a 28-0 lead. Things only got worse for the Redskins, and by the end of the second half officials were asking Halas not to let his team kick for extra points, as they were running out of footballs after too many had been kicked into the stands. The Bears followed their history-making win with two more consecutive championships, including a game against the New York Giants at Chicago’s Wrigley Field just two weeks after Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor. Many great football players were subsequently drafted into World War II, and Halas himself would leave in 1942 for a tour of duty in the Pacific. In 1946, after the war ended, Halas and a number of former players returned to the team, and the Bears won their fourth NFL Championship in seven years.

Related Videos Lot Detail - 1940 Chicago Bears NFL World Championship Watch – Bob Swisher 73-0 over Redskins 1940 Chicago Bears NFL World Championship Watch – Bob Swisher 73-0 over Redskins Bidding This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 1/24/2015 On December 8, 1940, George Halas' Chicago Bears defeated the Washington Redskins 73-0 in the NFL Championship game at Griffith Stadium. To this day, it remains the most lopsided victory in NFL history. This was the 8th Championship game played in NFL history! We are extremely proud to offer an extremely rare 1940 Chicago Bears World Championship wristwatch presented to halfback Bob Swisher for his participation in the NFL Championship game. This is the equivalent of a Super Bowl ring today. You must remember that not until the 1950’s did NFL team regularly award championship rings, as watches were the more popular choice of the day. Bob Swisher (D.

1979) played College football for Northwestern and then spent five seasons with the Bears from 1938-41 with a long absence to serve in World War II. He also played for the Iowa Seahawks (a powerful Naval Pre-Flight School that had a powerhouse football program) where he was a teammate of Heisman Trophy winner, Tom Harmon. He returned to play for the Bears for one final season in 1945. He later went into coaching at Loyola University (Los Angeles) and at the Naval Air Station in Millington, TN. The gold-colored Longines watch features an engraving of a football on the reverse, along with the engraved lettering "Chicago Bears/Bob E. Swisher/H/1940/World Champions." This is only the second 1940 Chicago Bears Championship watch we have ever seen. The first example, which was discovered in 2007 by an elderly woman while cleaning out her deceased husband's desk drawer, was later sold on eBay that same year, where it realized a final sales price of $8,100. NFL championship watches dating prior to 1950 are exceedingly rare!

The watch, which has a metal band, is in working order and displays light-to-moderate wear consistent with its age and former use. In Excellent to Mint condition overall. Chicago Bears | Highlights from the 1940s 1920s | 1930s | 1940s | 1950s | 1960s | 1970s | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s Highlights from the 1940s The decade began with another NFL title as the Bears buried the Washington Redskins, 73-0, as ten different players scored while Chicago unveiled the T-formation. Halas left for war duties in the middle of the 1942 season. The team continued winning, but lost the title game in Washington, 14-6. Luke Johnsos and Hunk Anderson co-coached the wartime Bears the next three seasons. In 1943, the Bears beat Washington 41-21, at Wrigley Field in the NFL title game.

Halas returned in 1946 and the Bears won the title again - defeating the Giants, 24-14, before a NFL record crowd of 58,346 in the Polo Grounds. 12/8/40 George Halas surprises the Washington Redskins with his "T" formation offense in the NFL Championship game. The strategy proves more than effective as the Bears rout the Redskins 73-0 before 36,034 fans in Washington D.C. The gameplan signals the beginning of pro football's modern era. Each player receives $873. 1941 Bear Down Chicago Bears, the Bears new fight song, is published. 12/14/41 Bears and Packers agree their playoff game should be played to a 'sudden death' finish in event of tie. NFL adopts plan 1/24/42. 1942 George Halas departs in October for the US Navy. The Bears win their final six games, finish the season 11-0, and advance to the title game but lose to Washington, 14-6.

1943 Hunk Anderson and Luke Johnsos co-coach the wartime Bears for the next three seasons, compiling a 15-11-2 record. 11/14/43-Sid Luckman becomes the first pro to pass for 400+ yards in a game, scorching the Giants for 433 yards and seven TDs. 12/26/43 The Bears blast Washington 41-21 in Wrigley Field for the NFL title before 34,320 fans. Sid Luckman throws five TD passes (2 each to Harry Clark and Dante Magnani). Bronko Nagurski scores his last Bear TD, a 3-yard run. 12/15/46 With George Halas around for the full season, the Bears whip the Giants 24-14 before a record NFL title crowd of 58,346 in the Polo Grounds. After opening with a 21-yard TD pass to Ken Kavanaugh, Sid Luckman gets the winning score on a 19-yard bootleg. 1948 Bears make the first trade for a draft choice, then select QB Bobby Layne.

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This is 1st report coverage on the 1940 NFL: championship game between the Washington Redskins and Chicago Bears. This was the most one-sided victory in NFL history. Other news, sports and advertisements of the day. A little spine wear, otherwise in good condition. wikipedia notes: The 1940 National Football League Championship Game, was the 8th in NFL history. The game was played at Griffith Stadium in Washington, D.C. on December 8, 1940. The Chicago Bears defeated the Washington Redskins, 73-0, the most one-sided victory in NFL history. The game was broadcast on radio by Mutual Broadcasting System, the first NFL title game broadcast nationwide. December 08, 1940 : Bears beat Redskins 73-0 in NFL Championship game Introduction On this day in 1940, the Chicago Bears trounce the Washington Redskins in the National Football League (NFL) Championship by a score of 73-0, the largest margin of defeat in NFL history. The Bears, coached by George Halas, brought a 6-2 record to their regular-season meeting with the Redskins in Washington on November 17, 1940.

After Chicago lost 3-7, the Redskins coach, George Preston Marshall, told reporters that Halas and his team were “quitters” and “cry babies.” Halas used Marshall’s words to galvanize his players, and the Bears scored 78 points in their next two games to set up a showdown with the Redskins in the league’s championship game on December 8, also in Washington. Less than a minute into the game, the Bears’ running back Bill Osmanski ran 68 yards to score the first touchdown. After the Redskins narrowly missed an opportunity to tie the game, the Bears clamped down and began to dominate, leaving the field at halftime with a 28-0 lead. Things only got worse for the Redskins, and by the end of the second half officials were asking Halas not to let his team kick for extra points, as they were running out of footballs after too many had been kicked into the stands. The Bears followed their history-making win with two more consecutive championships, including a game against the New York Giants at Chicago’s Wrigley Field just two weeks after Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor.

Many great football players were subsequently drafted into World War II, and Halas himself would leave in 1942 for a tour of duty in the Pacific. In 1946, after the war ended, Halas and a number of former players returned to the team, and the Bears won their fourth NFL Championship in seven years. Article Details: December 08, 1940 : Bears beat Redskins 73-0 in NFL Championship game Author December 08, 1940 : Bears beat Redskins 73-0 in NFL Championship game URL 1940's Chicago Bears 1940's Chicago Bears, Another Dynasty by Roy Taylor © 2004 The 1946 Bears celebrate their final championship of the decade following their win over the New York Giants. It was George Halas' plan that the names Shaughnessy, Luckman, Bulldog, Osmanski, McAfee and others would change the face of his team forever. Pehaps Halas couldn't even imagine how fast the turnaround would come, and to what positive extent.

The fabulous draft of 1939, that added quarterback Sid Luckman, running back Bill Osmanski, guard Ray Bray and others was reprised in 1940. With their first two picks they picked center/linebacker Clyde "Bulldog" Turner and end Ken Kavanaugh. They also traded with the Philadelphia Eagles for first-round running back George McAfee. McAfee would add some "lightning" to Osmanski's "thunder". Through the first eight weeks of the '40 season, the Bears were 6-2 and set for a showdown with George Preston Marshall's Washington Redskins. On that November 17th in Washington, Chicago lost 7-3, and Marshall was quoted in the paper as calling Halas and his Bears "front-runners," "quitters" and "crybabies". Using Marshall's printed words as a catalyst, Chicago scored 78 points in its final two games. Chicago and Washington's records set up an NFL Championship Game showdown in Washington on December 8. Prior to the game, Halas distributed clippings of Marshall's comments to his players, and said "Gentlemen, this is what George Preston Marshall thinks of you.

I think you're a great football team, the greatest ever assembled. Go out on the field and prove it." Fifty-five seconds into the game, Osmanski swept left and scored on a 68 yard touchdown. Late in the game, the officials pleaded with Halas to not kick for extra points as they were running out of footballs that had flown through the uprights into the crowd. In the end, the score was 73-0, the largest margin of defeat in NFL history. After his team had proven to Halas that they were one of the best assembled ever on that day, in the following years they made good on showing that they were indeed perhaps the best every to that point. In 1941, the Bears finished 10-1, losing only to the Green Bay Packers by two points. In a playoff game prior to the NFL Championship, Chicago paid the Packers back, winning 33-14. Then a second championship in a row was secured for Chicago with a 37-9 victory over the New York Giants at Wrigley Field.

That game was played under sobering circumstances, two weeks after the Pearl Harbor attack, and players had to have known that the coming years would not be the same. Indeed, as was expected, current players were drafted into the military and at the same time the talent pool of potential players was diminished. The Bears continued operations normally, although some other teams were forced to merge or fold during the war. For example, the Philadelphia Eagles and Pittsburgh Steelers merged to form the Phil-Pitt Steagles. Chicago did lose something significant when founder/coach Halas entered the Navy for a tour of duty in the Pacific theater. Following the October 25, 1942 victory over Philadelphia, Chicago's twelfth victory in a row, Halas turned his team over to assistants Hunk Anderson and Luke Johnsos. The Bears would win the final six games that season-giving them 18 straight regular and postseason wins-but lost the 1942 NFL Championship game 14-6 to the Redskins. In 1943, former star fullback Bronko Nagurski was coaxed back onto the team to play one final season.

He played the season mostly at tackle, but did turn in several unforgettable performances at his old role of fullback before the year was over. On December 26th, a visiting Halas returned in his dress Navy uniform to soundly defeat the Redskins 41-21 for their third NFL title of the decade. The story of Nagurski's return to football has been written in Jim Dent's book Monsters of the Midway. The book is currently being made into a feature film. In 1944 and '45, the war continued to erode the talent pool of the Bears as well as the rest of the NFL. Chicago finished 6-3-1 in '44, and 3-7 in 1945. The return of the Bears' stars at the end of '45 was evident, however, as the team did finish 3-2 over the final five weeks of the season. The 1946 season became the final championship season of the decade, as many of the great players from 1940-41 made it back to the team following the conclusion of World War 2.

The Bears defeated the New York Giants in New York 24-14 to seal their fourth NFL Championship in seven years. Chicago remained competitive through the end of the decade, compiling a 27-9 record from 1947-'49, but could not win another championship. Talent was still there, however, and the looming 1950's promised to be another exciting era for the Bears. Head Coaches: George Halas, 1940-1942; 1946-1949; Luke Johnsos and Hunk Anderson, 1942-1945 Championships: 1940, 1941, 1943, 1946 Records: Best 11-0, 1942 (lost Championship game); Worst 3-7, 1945 Quotable "Halas always made sure Luckman had a couple of offensive linemen with them at all times. We were his bodygards." -the late Al Baisi on the late Sid Luckman Further Reading Tidbits The 1940's were the Chicago Bears' best decade.

They won four world championships in the 10 year period. The 1942 Bears had an undefeated regular season, as they did in 1933. Also as they did in '33, they lost the NFL Championship game. Many of the league's stars fought in World War II. An aging Bronko Nagurski was brought back to play in 1943. After 75 years, Bears' 73-0 championship victory still stands in record books - The Morning Call After 75 years, Bears' 73-0 championship victory still stands in record books 1940 NFL Championship File photo / TNS Chicago Bears owner and coach George Halas is hoisted on the shoulders of players in the dressing room after the team beat the Washington Redskins 73-0 in the 1940 NFL Championship game. Chicago Bears owner and coach George Halas is hoisted on the shoulders of players in the dressing room after the team beat the Washington Redskins 73-0 in the 1940 NFL Championship game. (File photo / TNS) Michael K. BohnFor Tribune News Service Sammy Baugh said Redskins actually tried to lose.

Teammates say no way. CHICAGO — Trailing 7-3 with 90 seconds left in the game, the Chicago Bears started on the 50-yard line on what they hoped would be the game-winning drive. The host Washington Redskins also had hopes — a win would keep them in contention for the NFL 's East Division title. A sellout crowd of 35,231 was on its feet that afternoon, Nov. 17, 1940, and looking for an upset victory over the Monsters of the Midway. It would be a heckuva win, considering the Bears had handily outgained the 'Skins in passing, rushing and kick returning. After an incomplete pass, Bears quarterback Sid Luckman connected with halfback George McAfee, who streaked toward the goal line. Washington defensive back Dick Todd stopped him on the half-yard line, and the home crowd roared its approval. With the seconds ticking off the clock high on the bleachers, the Bears drew a five-yard penalty. On the next play, two Washington defensive linemen swatted away Luckman's first pass attempt, leaving the Bears with only seconds to run another play.

With the Bears in their revolutionary T formation, Luckman took the snap from under center, dropped back, and fired the ball at fullback Bill Osmanski. Jostled by Redskins defenders in the end zone, Osmanski got his hands on the ball but couldn't bring it down. With no time on the clock, Bears coach George Halas joined his team on the field yelling for an interference call from the refs. No luck, and no instant replay in those days. Game over. George Preston Marshall, the Redskins owner, was a press-savvy promoter and businessman. But in the postgame excitement, he derided the calls for a penalty on the final play and declared to the reporters, "The Bears are a bunch of crybabies. . The Bears are quitters." Three weeks later, on a day 75 years ago this week, Marshall would have to eat those words. EARLY NFL YEARS The Bears were among the founding teams of the American Professional Football Association in 1920, although they were then known as the Decatur Staleys.

They began play as a company team for the Staley starch company in Decatur, Ill., and upon moving to the Windy City in 1921, became the Chicago Bears. When the APFA changed its name to the National Football League in 1922, Bears owner and coach George Halas became an NFL stalwart for generations. In 1932, the NFL team owners added a franchise in Boston under the ownership of Marshall, an entrepreneur from Washington, D.C. He named the team after the Major League Baseball club in town, the Braves, a common practice in the early NFL. The New York Giants , for example, were named for the baseball team, as were the Pittsburgh Pirates before they became the Steelers . The new Boston team played at Braves Field, a baseball park, in 1932, and moved to Fenway Park for the 1933 season. As a tribute to the host Red Sox , Marshall changed the team name to Redskins. Before the season's home opener against New York, the players posed for photographs in war paint and feathers.

They left the makeup on for the game, and although things were a bit messy under those leather helmets, the Redskins beat the Giants, 21-20. Professional football didn't play well in Boston, though, and Marshall lost money from the start. "The Boston sportswriters were loud in their dislike of pro football," Corinne Griffith, Marshall's wife, wrote in 1947, "It was too far a cry from Harvard." Marshall, who owned a chain of laundries in Washington, moved the team to the District of Columbia prior to the 1937 season. Griffith, a silent film star, married Marshall in 1936 and actively promoted the team. She wrote the lyrics to the team fight song, "Hail to the Redskins," and chose the team colors of burgundy and gold. Fast forward to 1940. After the Redskins upset the Bears, and the crybaby taunts that followed from Marshall, Washington won the NFL's East Division. Chicago won the West, and the two teams would meet in the NFL Championship on Dec. 8, 1940, in Griffith Stadium, the Washington Senator's ballpark.

The Bears arrived in Washington by train the morning before the game and held a brief workout at Griffith Stadium after the Redskins had finished their practice. They then settled into the Mayflower Hotel, a local landmark five blocks from the White House. There they saw that the hometown press had continued to fan the Marshall-crybaby brouhaha. "We got to our hotel rooms and the sports section was on top of everybody's bed," Bears halfback Bob Snyder told a Toledo Blade reporter in 1994. "The headline was, 'Gutless Bears Hit Capitol.'" The bookies had the Bears as 7-5 favorites, but the locals had snapped up all 36,034 seats for the game. Washington Post reporter Al Hailey described the ticket demand: "It'll be easier tomorrow to get into the White House than it will be at Griffith Stadium if you don't have a ticket." Hailey also wrote about the contrasting styles of the two teams, especially their offensive formations. The Bears had long used the T formation, with the quarterback under center and the fullback and halfbacks lined up abreast behind him. Luckman was later considered to be the first great T-formation quarterback, and is in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

On the other hand, Washington used a single wing formation, with the tailback taking a long snap much like today's shotgun. The quarterback was mostly a blocking back. Slingin' Sammy Baugh, another Hall of Famer, was the Redskins tailback in 1940. Before the 1:30 p.m. start, Coach Halas played his strongest motivational card. He had posted newspaper clippings on the locker room wall, all reporting Marshall's inflammatory comments from the Bears-Redskins game the previous month. Luckman told a Milwaukee reporter in 1980 what Halas did next. "Before we took the field, he pointed to the clippings and said, 'Gentlemen, this is what Mr. Marshall thinks of you. I know you are the greatest football team in America. I know it and you know it. I want you to prove that to Mr. Marshall, the Redskins and, above all, the nation.'" "After that," Luckman continued, "we let out a big war whoop and broke the door down getting to the field." On the first play from scrimmage, Bears halfback George McAfee ran for seven yards.

Halas jumped from the bench and yelled, "We got 'em!" Halas said years later that if the Redskins lined up in the 5-3-3 defense they had used in the November game, his game plan for the title game would work. "We ran one play as a test," Halas said, according to the Los Angeles Times' Bob Wolf, "to see which defense they were using." Halas had the answer. On the next play, Bill Osmanski scored on a 68-yard run. Jack Manders kicked the extra point. The Redskins quickly responded when Max Krause returned Manders' kickoff 56 yards to the Bears 40. After the Redskins advanced the ball to the Chicago 25, end Charley Malone dropped a Baugh pass on the 4-yard line. Bob Masterson then missed a 32-yard field goal attempt, and the Bears took over on their own 20. Chicago drove 80 yards in 17 plays, with Luckman scoring on a sneak. The extra point made it 14-0.

Every Redskins possession in the first quarter yielded nothing, while the Bears scored a third time on a 42-yard run by Joe Maniaci. Chicago scored only once in the second quarter, on a 30-yard pass from Luckman to end Ken Kavanaugh. . During halftime, Halas gave his players a pep talk. "We can't let up," he said, according to reserve quarterback Solly Sherman in a 1990 interview. "The Redskins are too good a team," Halas continued. "They can come back!" Corinne Griffith recalled that the Washington fans were stunned during the intermission. "What's happened?" she heard people say. "What's the matter?" In her book "My Life with the Redskins," Griffith offered her take: "The Redskins became mentally petrified." Player injuries were surely a factor for the Redskins that day. They started the game with only 32 players because of injuries sustained in the final two regular-season games. Four played hurt, and three were banged up enough during the game to put them on the bench. In the third quarter, the Bears intercepted three passes, one from Baugh and two by Roy Zimmerman, and ran each back for touchdowns.

Ray Nolting also ran 23 yards for the fourth Bears score in the quarter. Midway through the third quarter onslaught, the Redskins' PA announcer urged the fans to buy season tickets for 1941. The crowd booed mightily, venting some of their frustration. The Redskins had another big problem in the fourth quarter. They were running out of footballs. At the time, no stadium had nets behind the goal posts, so the extra point and field goal attempts sailed into the stands. The rabid Washington fans wouldn't give them up. "My dad sent people into the stands to buy back the balls," John Carroll said in an interview. He is a real estate developer in Virginia, and his father Sid was the Redskins' business manager in 1940. "They offered 30-40 bucks for each, but got no takers." After touchdown No. 10, which put the Bears up 66-0, Sherman came on the field to hold for the point-after kick. "What are you doing?" asked referee Red Friesell. "We're kicking," said Sherman, who later told the story to a reporter. "Oh no, you're not. You're passing.

That's the last ball we've got." After a Bears huddle, Maniaci passed to Sherman for the conversion. Carroll said that his father walked over the Chicago bench to ask Halas to run or throw for any more extra points. At that point, Marshall got up from his seat and said to his wife, "I'm going down to those kids, anything might happen." Walking down the stairs with a police escort, Marshall got an earful from a spectator, "Get 'em outta here, you lug. Take 'em back to Boston!" Chicago scored again in the final two minutes, making the final score 73-0, a single-game margin that remains an NFL record. Washington rushed for a total of five yards, threw eight interceptions, and produced 231 total yards to Chicago's 519. "Who are the crybabies now?" shouted one of the Bears in the locker room after the game. Halas talked with more grace when interviewed by the press. "It was just one of those days. Everything we did, we did right. Everything they did, they did wrong." Marshall was outraged at first, but calmed down, according to Redskins historian Mike Richman.

"They didn't lack courage," Marshall said to the press, "but they lost their heads." EPILOGUE Sammy Baugh cast a shadow on the 1940 NFL Championship game in a 1999 interview. He said that many of his teammates tried to lose the game to spite Marshall. "I think it happened because of what the owner did for two weeks," Baugh said in a follow-up interview with the Associated Press. "He put things in the paper running the Bears down. You don't want to help the other team. You shouldn't say things like that. It made us so mad." The AP reporter asked former Washington lineman Clyde Shugart, who played in the title game, to comment on Baugh's statement. "Was he drunk when he said that?" Shugart asked. "I don't remember anything like that. I played as hard as I could, but I never saw so many holes on a line." George Musso, a Hall of Fame lineman who played for the Bears that day, gave his take on Baugh's claim to AP. "It doesn't make sense. We just outplayed them, that was all. We had seven Hall of Famers on that club.

There was good reason for us to win." About: 1940 NFL season About: 1940 NFL season An Entity of Type : TimePeriod115113229 , from Named Graph : , within Data Space : dbpedia.org The 1940 NFL season was the 21st regular season of the National Football League. The season ended when the Chicago Bears defeated the Washington Redskins in the NFL Championship Game, 73–0. This game still stands as the most one-sided victory in NFL history. The Pittsburgh Pirates were renamed the Pittsburgh Steelers before the 1940 season. Property La saison 1940 de la NFL est la 21e saison de la National Football League. Elle voit le sacre des Chicago Bears. (fr) La stagione NFL 1940 fu la 21ª stagione sportiva della National Football League, la massima lega professionistica statunitense di football americano.

La stagione iniziò l'8 settembre 1940 e si concluse con la finale del campionato che si disputò l'8 dicembre al Griffith Stadium di Washington e che vide la vittoria dei Chicago Bears sui Washington Redskins per 73 a 0, partita che detiene tuttora il record di maggior scarto di punteggio in una partita della NFL. (it) The 1940 NFL season was the 21st regular season of the National Football League. The season ended when the Chicago Bears defeated the Washington Redskins in the NFL Championship Game, 73–0. This game still stands as the most one-sided victory in NFL history. The Pittsburgh Pirates were renamed the Pittsburgh Steelers before the 1940 season.

(en) 1940年のNFLは、NFLの21年目のシーズンである。 シーズン開幕前、ピッツバーグ・パイレーツがピッツバーグ・スティーラーズに名称を変更した。 NFLチャンピオンシップで、シカゴ・ベアーズがワシントン・レッドスキンズを73対0で破り、NFLチャンピオンに輝いた。この試合が、NFL史上最大の点差のついた試合である。 (ja) НФЛ в сезоне 1940 — стал 21-м сезоном Национальной футбольной лиги. (ru) La saison 1940 de la NFL est la 21e saison de la National Football League. Elle voit le sacre des Chicago Bears. (fr) La stagione NFL 1940 fu la 21ª stagione sportiva della National Football League, la massima lega professionistica statunitense di football americano.

La stagione iniziò l'8 settembre 1940 e si concluse con la finale del campionato che si disputò l'8 dicembre al Griffith Stadium di Washington e che vide la vittoria dei Chicago Bears sui Washington Redskins per 73 a 0, partita che detiene tuttora il record di maggior scarto di punteggio in una partita della NFL. (it) The 1940 NFL season was the 21st regular season of the National Football League. The season ended when the Chicago Bears defeated the Washington Redskins in the NFL Championship Game, 73–0. This game still stands as the most one-sided victory in NFL history. The Pittsburgh Pirates were renamed the Pittsburgh Steelers before the 1940 season. (en) НФЛ в сезоне 1940 — стал 21-м сезоном Национальной футбольной лиги.

(ru) 1940年のNFLは、NFLの21年目のシーズンである。シーズン開幕前、ピッツバーグ・パイレーツがピッツバーグ・スティーラーズに名称を変更した。NFLチャンピオンシップで、シカゴ・ベアーズがワシントン・レッドスキンズを73対0で破り、NFLチャンピオンに輝いた。この試合が、NFL史上最大の点差のついた試合である。 (ja)

Question: The Chicago Bears defeated which team 73-0 in the 1940 NFL Championship game?
Answer: Washington Redskins