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| Source:NFL Films- the Chicago Bears and New York Giants for the 1956 NFL Championship. |
"The Big One 1956 NFL Championship game"
From Newton Minnowowski
The Cleveland Browns were the NFL franchise of the 1960s with their 5 NFL championships. But the 1950s was also a great decade for the New York Giants winning 6 Eastern Conference championships and winning the the NFL Championship in 1956. The 1950s was really the last good decade that the Giants had till the 1980s when they finally became consistent winners again after having a bad 1970s and a 1960s where they were no longer contenders after losing the 1963 NFL Championship to the Chicago Bears.
Historically there have been a few great inter-divisional and inter-conference rivalries in the NFL. The Dallas Cowboys-San Francisco 49ers is perhaps the best one. But the 49ers also had a great inter-conference rivalry with the Giants and to a certain extent with the Redskins.
But the rivalry that the Giants have had with the Bears goes back to the 1940s and is still alive today, at least to some extent, because they've played so many great regular season games against each other, as well as championship games like in 56, but in 63 as well. So historically it's always been a big game when the Bears play the Giants.
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