1933 NFL season

Because of the success of the Playoff Game the year before, the league divided its teams into two divisions for the first time, with the winners of each division playing in a Championship Game to determine the NFL Champion.

Three new teams joined the league: the Pittsburgh Pirates, the Philadelphia Eagles, and the Cincinnati Reds.

The season ended when the Chicago Bears defeated the New York Giants in the first ever NFL Championship Game.

Due to the success of the 1932 NFL Playoff Game, the league stopped using the exact rules of college football and started to develop its own revisions: at Wrigley Field, Chicago, Illinois The 1933 season marked the second year in which official statistics were tracked and retained by the NFL.

The team would then regularly play two or three home games each year in Milwaukee from 1934 to 1994.