Legacy
The game still marks the most lopsided victory in NFL history. Chicago's 73 points remains the most ever scored by one team in league history, in the regular season or postseason. Chicago's 7 rushing touchdowns is the second-most touchdowns (by both teams in one game) in league history, and the most ever in a post season game.
The First Fifty Years, a 1969 book that chronicles the first half-century of the NFL, listed the game as one of "Ten That Mattered" to the growth of pro football in the United States. "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 team before or since. In the championship game, as an underdog to the team which had just beaten them, the Bears made an eleven-touchdown pile and used it as a pedestal to raise the NFL to view in all corners of the country. ... Pro football, the T-formation and the Chicago Bears were the sudden sports news of the year."
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