Honestly, it looks like a misprint: The Chicago Bears and New York Giants have played 59 times in their history, playoffs included. Fifty-nine? There was a time when it seemed they had a shared foot in every big moment the NFL produced.
Big Blue and the Monsters of the Midway?
Fifty-nine times?
“The Bears and the Giants brings to mind some powerful images, doesn’t it?” Wellington Mara asked me, maybe two years before he died. “The players: Red Grange and Bronko Nagurski, Frank Gifford and Rosey Brown. The weather: It always seemed like we played on cold and gray days.