[2][3] Played two weeks after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the attendance was 13,341, the fewest to see an NFL title game.

The two had split their season series in 1941, with the road teams winning, so the tiebreaker was the first-ever divisional playoff game in the NFL, played on December 14 at Wrigley Field.

[8] Chicago was favored,[8][9] and attendance on game day was slightly lower than capacity at 43,425, the week after Pearl Harbor.

[3] The Giants took the opening drive of the second half down to the five but settled for a short field goal to tie the score.

[19] Two players in the game, back Young Bussey of the Bears and end Jack Lummus of the Giants, were killed in action three years later in World War II, in early 1945.