1970 Chicago Bears season: Difference between revisions

{{Infoboxshort description|NFL team season}}

| stadium = [[Wrigley Field]]<br>[[Dyche Stadium]]

===NFL Draft=Offseason ==

== Roster ==

{{NFLplayer|1012|BobbyBob DouglassCutburth|rookie=y}}

{{NFLplayer|84|Jim Seymour|rookie=y|d=American football}}

{{NFLplayer|20|Joe Taylor|d=American footballcornerback|CB}}

== Regular season ==

As an experiment, the Bears hosted their first home game of the season at [[Northwestern University]]'s [[Dyche Stadium]] in [[Evanston, Illinois|Evanston]]. The Bears' [[Wrigley Field]] landlord, the [[1970 Chicago Cubs season|Chicago Cubs]], were in a pennant race and might play in the [[1970 National League Championship Series|National League Championship Series]] and [[1970 World Series|World Series]], and that Wrigley Field would be unavailable (at least for installation of temporary seating in right and center field) until well into October.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1970/07/22/page/49/article/bears-over-sue-evanston-n-u-over-use-of-dyche-stadium|title = Historical Newspapers from 1700s–2000s| date=4 August 2023 }}</ref> (The Cubs were in contention in the [[National League East]] until the final week of the 1970 season, thus rendering the anticipation moot.)<ref name=prceatg>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=repWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=le0DAAAAIBAJ&pg=5816%2C89367 |work=Spokesman-Review |location=(Spokane, Washington) |title=Pennant race at a glance |date=September 16, 1970 |page=16}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/CHC/1970-schedule-scores.shtml|title = 1970 Chicago Cubs Schedule}}</ref>

In addition, the [[National Football League|NFL]] was pressuring the Bears to move out of Wrigley Field, because it had no lights and its seating capacity was under 50,000 (even with additional seating in right field for football games), stipulations of the [[AFL–NFL merger]] agreement. The Bears planned to move to Evanston for the [[1971 Chicago Bears season|1971]] season, but Evanston residents petitioned city officials to block the move, and the [[Big Ten Conference]] ultimately barred the Bears from using Dyche Stadium;<ref>[http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1971/03/10/page/56/article/n-u-asks-special-big-10-meeting Historical Newspapers from 1700s–2000s – Newspapers.com<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> the Bears moved to Chicago's [[Soldier Field]].<ref>[http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1971/04/14/page/85/article/renovations-key-to-soldier-field Historical Newspapers from 1700s–2000s – Newspapers.com<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>

=== Schedule ===

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"

| '''W''' 24–16

| align=center|1–0

| '''W''' 20–16

| align=center|2–0

| '''[[1970 Minnesota Vikings season|Minnesota Vikings]]'''

| '''L''' 24–00–24

| align=center|2–2

| '''L''' 20–77–20

| align=center|2–3

| '''Detroit Lions'''

| '''L''' 16–1010–16

| align=center|2–4

| '''W''' 23–14

| align=center|3–4

| '''L''' 37–1616–37

| align=center|3–5

| at '''[[1970 Green Bay Packers season|Green Bay Packers]]'''

| '''L''' 20–1919–20

| align=center|3–6

| '''W''' 31–13

| align=center|4–6

| '''L''' 21–2020–21

| align=center|4–7

| '''Green Bay Packers'''

| '''W''' 35–17

| align=center|5–8

| '''W''' 24–3

| align=center|6–8

=== Season summary ===

==== Week 1 at Giants====

|Titlebg=

|Datedate=September 19

==== Week 2 ====

|TimeZone=CST

|Weather={{convert|52°|F}} • Wind {{convert|9|mph|abbr=on}}

|Referee=[[Fred Swearingen]]

|TVAnnouncers=[[Jack Whitaker]] and [[Tom Brookshier]]

|TVStation=[[NFL on CBS|CBS]]

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==== Week 3 ====

==== Week 4 ====

==== Week 5 ====

==== Week 6 ====

==== Week 7 ====

|Weather={{convert|62°|F}}; wind {{convert|7|mph|abbr=on}}

{{AFB Game Box Scoring Entry |Quarter=Q3 |Time= |Team=ATL |Event= [[Jim Mitchell (Americantight footballend)|Mitchell]] 17 yard pass from Berry (Vinyard kick) |Score= ATL 14–13}}

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==== Week 8 ====

==== Week 9 ====

==== Week 10 ====

|Weather={{convert|43°|F}} • Wind {{convert|22|mph|abbr=on}}

|Referee=John McDonough

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==== Week 12 ====

==== Week 13 ====

|Weather={{convert|32°|F}}, wind {{convert|11 |mph|abbr=on}}

|Referee=Fred Silva

* '''Source:''' [https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/197012130chi.htm Pro-Football-Reference.com]

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==== Week 14 ====

|StartTime=21:00 p.m.

|TimeZone=CST

|Weather={{convert|65°|F}}; wind {{convert|7|mph|abbr=on}}

|Referee=[[Jack Reader]]

|TVAnnouncers=[[Jack Drees]] and [[Eddie LeBaron]]

|TVStation=CBS

* [[Jack Concannon]] 26/50, 280 Yds

* [[Dick Gordon (American football)|Dick Gordon]] 9 Rec, 119 Yds

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=== Standings ===

== References ==