In the 1940 NFL Championship Game, Washington’s defense allowed seven rushing touchdowns in a 73-0 loss to the Bears, the most lopsided result in NFL history. No team had ever given up seven rushing ...

The 1940 NFL draft was held in Milwaukee. The draft was actually in December 1939, before the NFL Championship Game hosted by the Green Bay Packers. The draft was at what's now the Hilton Milwaukee ...

The fifth NFL Draft was held Dec. 9, 1939, at the Schroeder Hotel, now the Hilton Milwaukee. The meeting was conducted in the Empire Ballroom, started at 2 p.m. and was over "within a few hours," ...

MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) - On this day, Nov. 17, 1940, the Green Bay Packers became the first NFL team to travel by plane to and from a game. During the 1940 season, the Packers had five away games in a ...

We take a look back at the biggest blowout in NFL history when the Chicago Bears beat the Washington Redskins 73-0.

The 1940s were a complicated decade for the New York Giants and the NFL as a whole. With World War II impacting rosters across the league, many players stepped away from football to serve in the ...