1939 NFL Championship Game

The 1939 NFL Championship Game was the seventh league championship game of the National Football League (NFL), held on December 10 inside the Milwaukee Mile, located at the Wisconsin State Fair Park in West Allis, a suburb west of Milwaukee.

[3][4] The teams had met in the previous year's title game in New York City, which the Giants won by six points, but did not play each other in the 1939 regular season.

[5] For the title game in Wisconsin, the Packers opened as 8-to-5 gambling favorites to win, with odds said to have tighened to 7-to-5 as gametime approached.

[11] The "Dairy Bowl" football stadium was dedicated at halftime with the breaking of a bottle of milk.

[12][13] Sunday, December 10, 1939 Kickoff: 1:30 p.m. CST[1] Source:[14] The Packers moved the game from Green Bay to the larger metropolitan area of Milwaukee in hopes of increasing attendance; 32,379 paid to watch.