1939 NFL Championship Game
The Milwaukee Mile in the Wisconsin State Fair Park in West Allis, Wisconsin, the site of the 1939 NFL Championship Game. | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | December 10, 1939 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Stadium | Milwaukee Mile (State Fair Park) West Allis, Wisconsin | ||||||||||||||||||
| Favorite | Green Bay by 10 points Green Bay 7-to-5 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Referee | Bill Halloran | ||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 32,379 | ||||||||||||||||||
The 1939 NFL Championship Game was the seventh league championship game of the National Football League (NFL), held on December 10 inside the Milwaukee Mile, located at the Wisconsin State Fair Park in West Allis, a suburb west of Milwaukee.
The New York Giants (9–1–1), the defending champions, played the Western Division champion Green Bay Packers (9–2). The teams had met in the previous year's title game in New York City, which the Giants won by six points, but did not play each other in the 1939 regular season. For the title game in Wisconsin, the Packers opened as 8-to-5 gambling favorites to win, with odds said to have tighened to 7-to-5 as gametime approached.
The host Packers scored a touchdown in the first quarter and led 7–0 at halftime. They dominated in the second half to win 27–0 and secure their fifth title—two more than any other franchise. At the time, it was the highest attended sporting event in the Milwaukee area's history.