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How the Bears lost the 1956 championship to the Giants wearing sneakers from 1934

In the 1934 NFL championship game, the Bears wore the wrong footwear and got smoked by the Giants in the famed “Sneakers Game.” Twenty-two years later, Halas got the shoes wrong again, giving his Bears the sneakers that the team bought after the ‘34 game.

In the 1956 NFL championship game loss to the Giants, the Bears made the same mistake they made in the championship game 22 years earlier, also against the Giants: they wore the wrong shoes.

“I looked at one of our shoes. It had No.