Dates | December 14-21, 1941 | ||||
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Season | 1941 | ||||
Teams | 3 | ||||
Games played | 2 | ||||
NFL Championship Game site | |||||
Defending champions | Chicago Bears | ||||
Champions | Chicago Bears | ||||
Runners-up | New York Giants | ||||
Conference runners-up | |||||
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The 1941 National Football League season resulted in a tie for the Western Division championship between the Chicago Bears and Green Bay Packers, requiring an unscheduled one-game playoff, making this the debut edition of the NFL playoffs. The two teams had finished the regular season with identical 10–1 records and had split their season series. [1] The Bears were defending league champions, and the Packers had won the NFL title in 1939.
This divisional championship game was played on December 14 at Wrigley Field. [2] The winner then hosted the New York Giants (8–3) on December 21 in the NFL Championship Game.
Western Division playoff | NFL Championship | ||||||||
E | New York | 9 | |||||||
W | Green Bay | 14 | W | Chicago Bears | 37 | ||||
W | Chicago Bears | 33 |
Quarter | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
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Packers | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 14 |
Bears | 6 | 24 | 0 | 3 | 33 |
at Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois
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This was the first postseason meeting in the history of the Bears-Packers rivalry.
Quarter | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
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Giants | 6 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 9 |
Bears | 3 | 6 | 14 | 14 | 37 |
at Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois
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