49ers, Bears are first teams to fail to complete a pass in first quarter since 1988
Colin Kaepernick ended the streak roughly halfway through the second quarter
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On Sunday at Soldier Field, the Bears and 49ers are battling for draft positions.
Collectively, they entered the game with three wins. The starting quarterbacks were never supposed to start, but one (Colin Kaepernick) is playing because it turns out Blaine Gabbert stinks and the other is playing because the Bears' quarterback room is cursed (both Jay Cutler and Brian Hoyer are out for the year with injuries).
Both teams and quarterbacks are doing one heck of a job in the draft pick war. They're even refusing to complete passes.
In the first quarter, which was scoreless, neither team completed a pass.
Yup, it's going to be that type of game in Chicago...😩
— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) December 4, 2016
ZERO completed passes in the 1st quarter #SFvsCHIpic.twitter.com/hVETa1Fn9T
That hasn't happened since 1988.
The 49ers-Bears game was the 1st since Jets-Patriots on November 13, 1988 to have no completed passes in the 1st quarter (via @EliasSports)
— ESPN Stats & Info (@ESPNStatsInfo) December 4, 2016
Early in the second quarter, each team completed a pass, finally giving everyone still watching permission to change the channel. Just kidding -- both were called back due to penalties.
Kaepernick ended the streak at roughly the 7.5-minute mark of the second quarter. And the 49ers ended up kicking a field goal to take a 3-0 lead.
Meanwhile, Barkley eventually one-upped Kaepernick by completing THREE straight passes. (The Bears led 7-6 at halftime.)
Matt Barkley with his first completion of game, an 8-yarder to Deonte Thompson. Crowd erupts in mock cheers.
— Larry Mayer (@LarryMayer) December 4, 2016
How's Jay Cutler sounding now, Chicago?
