RARE 1963 NFL Championship Chicago Bears home movie footage

Awesome piece of history

Amazing film!!!

Here's a rundown of the Bears who start running out towards the camera at 1:57: #63 Bob Wetoska (RT), #89 Mike Ditka (TE), #84 Bo Farrington (SE), #28 Willie Galimore (HB), #47 Johnny Morris (FL), #34 Joe Marconi (FB), and #9 Bill Wade (QB).

So cool- I was an Andy Frain usher for every Bear game that year including this one, I was still in high school think I got 7 dollars a game. Great memory- loved Wrigley Field for football also-

Thank you for sharing this family video.  I enjoyed watching it.

Galimore and Farrington would die in a single vehicle car accident on their back to summer camp at St.Joseph's College from the Rensselaer Country Club the following year. One can only speculate their further success had they not perished on that terrible night. Thanks for posting this.

From all the footage I've seen of this game, Wrigley Field looks jam packed, hard to imagine why NBC would black-out an NFL Championship game in Chicago just because the Bears were playing. I mean, Wrigley only holds about 40,000 seats for football. As far as I could tell from watching old video of this game, Wrigley looked completely sold-out.

Amazing footage.

This is spectacular!

Incredible footage!! Thanks for sharing.

I use to think my Grandpa was losing some portion of his memory when he told me he watched this game on channel 5 (NBC), I says to him: you mean channel 2? He said; it might've been on WBBM, but the reception was better on 5 that day. Flash forward; a week before the Bears played the Redskins in the '84 playoffs, I was going through his belongings after he passed away and discovered he was right via an old newspaper, the Bears defeated the Giants on NBC. ...I always assumed CBS televised every Championship game. Then later I discovered NBC had televised every NFL Championship from 1954 thru 1963. ...never question your Grandfather's knowledge of the Chicago Bears.

Thanks for sharing this. Was pretty cool

Pure gold. Thanks!!!

0:24 Mike Ditka!

this was the first Chicago Bear playoff game I ever watched, there was talk that this game might not even be played? because of the Kennedy Assassination in Dallas! on November 22, a day after my Mothers Birthday! she was never the same afterwards! for Chicagoan's it a Great ending after such a sad tragic event in this country's history! a great game the defense saved the day!

I missed this 1. 1 reason is that i was born on July 31,1963. Oh IRON MIKE at 0 ;24. he`d just turned 24yrs here. looks great.

2:09 johnny morris!!!!!

Awesome Alex ! This is why I LOVE Utube..... also, loved the end of show add-on . Who is / was that at the end ??

I remember watching this Gd game, especially the football bouncing off Shofner's Gd shoulder pad...in the END ZONE!

and JFK was gone just 37 days earlier. man