List of Chicago Bears Seasons - Footnotes

Footnotes

• a No official standings were maintained for the 1920 season, and the championship was awarded to the Akron Pros in a League meeting on April 30, 1921. Clubs played schedules that included games against nonleague opponents.
• b The NFL did not hold playoff games until 1932. The team that finished with the best regular season record was named the league champions.
• c The result of the 1932 NFL Playoff Game to determine the NFL champion between the Bears and the Portsmouth Spartans. The game counted in the standings and broke the tie.
• d The score of the playoff game is in parenthesis with the winning score first no matter the outcome for the Bears.
• e The Bears were denied perfect seasons on two accounts. The first one was in the 1934 when the 13-0 club lost to the New York Giants in the Championship game. The second occurrence happened in 1942 when the 11-0 club was denied perfection and a "three-peat" by the Washington Redskins.
• f The Bears victory of the Redskins in the 1940 NFL Championship is an NFL record for greatest margin of victory and most points scored in a game.
• h The Bears tied with the Rams for 1st place at the end of the season, but they lost the One-Game playoff tiebreaker and therefore did not win a Conference Championship.
• i The 1967 NFL season marks the first season in the league's history where the league was divided into two conferences which were subdivided into two divisions. Up to 1967, the league was either divided into two divisions, two conferences, or neither.
• j As a result of the AFL-NFL Merger, the league was broken into two conferences, with the AFL teams moving into the American Football Conference.
• k As of the 2010 NFL season, this season marks the last tie game the Bears played. It was a game at Soldier Field on September 24, 1972 against the Los Angeles Rams. The game ended at 13–13.
• l The 1982 season was a strike-shortened season so the league was divided up into two conferences instead of its normal divisional alignment.
• m This was the franchise's first Super Bowl victory and their ninth league championship.
• n The strike of 1987 reduced the regular season schedule from sixteen to fifteen 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.
• p As of the 2010 NFL season, this is the second postseason meeting of the Bears and Green Bay Packers in their long standing rivalry.
• q Records as of January 23, 2011.