1940 NFL season 1940 NFL season 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. "W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, PCT= Winning Percentage, PF= Points For, PA = Points Against" "Note: The NFL did not officially count tie games in the standings until 1972" Chi. Bears 73, Washington 0, at Griffith Stadium, Washington,
1940 NFL Championship Game or postseason. Chicago's seven rushing touchdowns is the second-most touchdowns (by both teams in one game) in league history and the most ever in a postseason game. "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. "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