On November 21st, 1934, the NFL tried something it had never attempted before — it moved a full regular-season game indoors.
Inside Chicago Stadium, on a field just 80 yards long and laid over a hockey rink, the Chicago Bears and Detroit Lions battled in one of the strangest environments in league history.
In this episode of Sports History Daily, we break down how brutal weather forced the NFL inside, why the field was so cramped and slippery, how Bronko Nagurski powered the Bears to a 19–16 win, and why the league never attempted an indoor arena game again.
It was loud. It was chaotic. It was completely unique.
Relive the NFL’s original indoor experiment — a one-day glimpse of the future, decades before domes became the norm.
