Head coach Jim Dooley Record 6–8 Playoff finish did not qualify | Owner George Halas Division place 4th NFC Central | |
Home field Wrigley Field
Dyche Stadium | ||
The 1970 Chicago Bears season was their 51st regular season completed in the National Football League. The club posted a 6–8 record, another below .500 showing, but a significant improvement over their 1–13 record of the previous season.
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Regular season
The Bears hosted their first home game of the season at Northwestern University's Dyche Stadium as an experiment. The Bears anticipated that their Wrigley Field landlord, the Chicago Cubs, might play in the 1970 National League Championship Series and World Series, and that Wrigley Field would be unavailable (at least for installation of temporary seating in right field) until well into October. (In fact, the Cubs were in contention in the National League East until the final week of the 1970 season.) In addition, the 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). The Bears planned to move to Evanston for the 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. The Bears ultimately moved to Chicago's Soldier Field,
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Standings
Note: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.