{"id":154714,"date":"2025-06-24T12:07:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T12:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/154714\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T12:07:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T12:07:09","slug":"bears-vs-giants-highlights-from-1970","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/154714\/","title":{"rendered":"Bears vs Giants Highlights from 1970"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"gawo6z\">Kevin Gallagher, an NFL historian who shares clips on social media, recently shared some highlights from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.windycitygridiron.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Bears<\/a> vs the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bigblueview.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Giants<\/a> game from 55 years ago, and I wanted to bring it here for those of you who don\u2019t do Twitter.<\/p>\n<p id=\"My3IqF\">In 1970, the Bears opened their season on Saturday night against the Giants in Yankee Stadium, and Chicago was coming off its worst season in franchise history (1-13).<\/p>\n<p id=\"WKGk90\">It\u2019s a fun clip featuring a few Hall of Famers and a Bears victory.  <\/p>\n<p id=\"STXqAD\">Here are a few nuggets about Chicago\u2019s 1970 season.<\/p>\n<p>This was the first year the NFL required names on the backs of jerseys.<br \/>\nChicago has two first team All Pros, middle linebacker Dick Butkus and wide receiver Dick Gordon.<br \/>\nGordon\u2019s 13 receiving touchdowns in 1970 are tied for the most in team history.<br \/>\nButkus and Gordon also made the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbnation.com\/nfl-pro-bowl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pro Bowl<\/a>, as did punter Bobby Joe Green and return specialist Cecil Turner.<br \/>\nTurner returned four kicks for touchdowns in 1970, which is the most single-season kickoff return TDs in franchise history.<br \/>\nThis was the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.windycitygridiron.com\/2025\/6\/22\/24453462\/the-evolution-of-soldier-field-chicago-bears-nfl-george-hallas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">last year before<\/a> the Bears moved to Soldier Field full-time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kevin Gallagher, an NFL historian who shares clips on social media, recently shared some highlights from the Chicago&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2070],"tags":[374,692,391,14087,2493,739,7,1134,29,519,740,3688,6,3084,738],"class_list":{"0":"post-154714","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-bears","8":"tag-bears","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-chicago-bears","11":"tag-chicago-bears-history","12":"tag-chicagobears","13":"tag-city","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-from","16":"tag-front-page","17":"tag-giants","18":"tag-gridiron","19":"tag-highlights","20":"tag-nfl","21":"tag-vs","22":"tag-windy"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114738262729418340","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}