1940 NFL Championship Game received $874 while each Redskin saw $606. 1940 NFL Championship Game The 1940 National Football League Championship Game, sometimes referred to as 73-0, was the eighth title game of the National Football League (NFL), played at Griffith Stadium in Washington, D.C. on December 8, with a sellout capacity attendance of 36,034. The Chicago Bears (8–3) of the Western Division met the Washington Redskins (9–2), champions of the Eastern Division. Neither team had played in the title game since 1937, when the Redskins won a close game at Chicago's Wrigley Field. For this game in Washington, the Bears entered as slight
1921 NFL Championship controversy applicable as both their games had ended in ties, which forced the league to schedule a playoff game to settle the dispute. The NFL Championship Game would become permanent in when the NFL divided into Eastern and Western divisions and standardized its schedule, with the "greater weight to a later game" tiebreaker being formally abolished. 1921 NFL Championship controversy The 1921 NFL Championship controversy, known among Buffalo sports historians and fans as the Staley Swindle, is a dispute in which the Buffalo All-Americans unintentionally surrendered the 1921 APFA Championship title to the Chicago Staleys (later renamed the Chicago Bears). The