The 1970

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season was their 51st

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completed in the

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. The team finished with a 6–8 record, a significant improvement over the 1–13 record of the previous season, the worst in franchise history.

Offseason

* June 16, 1970 – After a seven-month battle with cancer, running back Brian Piccolo died at age 26.

NFL Draft

Roster

Regular season

As an experiment, the Bears hosted their first home game of the season at

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's Dyche Stadium in Evanston. The Bears'

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landlord, the

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, were in a pennant race and might play in the

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and

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, and that Wrigley Field would be unavailable (at least for installation of temporary seating in right and center field) until well into October. (The Cubs were in contention in the

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until the final week of the 1970 season, thus rendering the anticipation moot.) 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), stipulations of the

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agreement. The Bears planned to move to Evanston for the

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season, but Evanston residents petitioned city officials to block the move, and the

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ultimately barred the Bears from using Dyche Stadium; the Bears moved to Chicago's

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Schedule

Season summary

Week 1 at Giants

Week 2

Week 3

Week 4

Week 5

Week 6

Week 7

Week 8

Week 9

Week 10

Week 11

Week 12

Week 13

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Pro-Football-Reference.com

Week 14

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26/50, 280 Yds * Dick Gordon 9 Rec, 119 Yds Pro-Football-Reference.com
Retrieved 2014-Sep-14.

Standings

References

Chicago Bears seasons

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