Introduction Every Every National Football League NFL season ends with one team dancing in confetti passing around the Lombardi Trophy after winning the Super Bowl However not all winners are created equal The best of the best find a way to do more than just outscore their opponents They dominate Some do it with defense Some do it with offense Some do it with Hall of Fame coaches Some do it with game changing players Each team arrives in training camp every summer dreaming of winning it all And every year one team does Every once in a while something special happens Every once in a while a team goes beyond simply winning the Super Bowl and leaves the kind of lasting legacy reserved for legends Let's meet the best teams in NFL history
10 Jubilant Chicago Bears players celebrate their second straight NFL title after throttling the New York Giants in 1941 1941 Chicago Bears George George Halas played and coached for the Chicago Bears for a decade before retiring after the 1929 season But his retirement did not last long The Bears lured Halas back in 1933 to serve as head coach a move that ranks as one of the smartest in NFL history By 1940 the Bears were among the league's best thanks in part to the play of star quarterback Sid Luckman But Washington Redskins owner George Preston Marshall wasn't a fan He called the Bears crybabies after his team edged Chicago 7 3 late in the 1940 regular season When the teams played in the NFL Championship Game a few weeks later Halas reminded his players of Marshall's comments The result was a 73 0 Bears victory that remains the most lopsided score in any NFL game That triumph served as a launching pad for an even more dominant season in 1941 The Bears went 10 1 during the regular season Their only defeat came in a 16 14 loss to Green Bay in early November Luckman led all NFL quarterbacks in passer rating and the Bears had the top rushing and passing attack in the league The Bears and Packers tied for the Western Division title forcing a playoff game at Chicago's Soldier Field George McAfee rushed for 119 yards and Norm Standlee scored two touchdowns as Chicago won easily 33 14 The next week the Bears smashed the New York Giants 37 9
to win the NFL title Standlee again scored twice Luckman was 9 for 12 passing for 160 yards and the defense held the Giants to just 157 total yards The Monsters of the Midway as the Bears became known were born
