1941 NFL season
Inaugural NFL press manual | |
| Regular season | |
|---|---|
| Duration | September 7 to December 7, 1941 |
| East Champions | New York Giants |
| West Champions | Chicago Bears (playoff) |
| Championship Game | |
| Champions | Chicago Bears |
The 1941 NFL season was the 22nd regular season of the National Football League (NFL). The league's ten teams each played a regular season schedule of 11 games, for a total of 55 regular season contests. The total attendance for these games was 1,118,616 — an average of 20,338 fans per event. This represented an increase of 9% over the previous season's attendance.
The defending league champion Chicago Bears and the Green Bay Packers finished the regular season tied in the Western Division, forcing the first divisional playoff game in league history. The Bears won this contest 33–14 at Wrigley Field on December 14, before swamping the New York Giants 37–9 in the 1941 NFL Championship Game at Wrigley Field one week later.
The Bears, who averaged 36 points per game over the course of the 1941 season, became the first team since the institution of the East–West play-off in 1933 to repeat as champion.