( The Green Bay Packers were an independent team until they joined the NFL in 1921 ).

The Falcons became the first team in NFL history to claim a playoff win over the Green Bay Packers in Lambeau Field, beating them 27 – 7.

Walsh directly helped propel Dennis Green into the NFL head coaching ranks by offering to take on the head coaching job at Stanford.

The Cowboys hosted the Green Bay Packers for the 1966 NFL Championship at the Cotton Bowl.

In the years 1953 – 66 the Colts played in the NFL Western Conference ( also known as division ), but were never known to have a significant rivalry with any of the other franchises in that alignment, seeing as they were the eastern-most team and the rest of the division included the Great Lakes franchises Green Bay, Detroit Lions, Chicago Bears, and after 1961, the Minnesota Vikings.

The inaugural season featured many of the players who would lead Jacksonville into the playoffs in the team's next four seasons, including quarterback Mark Brunell ( acquired in a draft day trade from Green Bay ), offensive lineman Tony Boselli ( drafted with the 2nd pick overall in the 1995 NFL Draft ) running back James Stewart ( also drafted in 1995 ), and wide receiver Jimmy Smith ( signed as a free agent ).

Van Brocklin had just finished his career as a player on a high note, having defeated the Green Bay Packers in the NFL Championship Game.

During the season, the Vikings had many distractions, including trading for Randy Moss and then waiving him only a month later, Brett Favre's NFL investigation for allegedly sending inappropriate text messages to Jets ' employee Jenn Sterger while he was with the team in 2008, the Metrodome's collapse and resulting venue changes, and finally head coach Brad Childress ' firing on November 22 following a 31 – 3 loss at the hands of the rival Green Bay Packers.

New Orleans and Green Bay are the only two NFL franchises with a team Hall of Fame facility.

They added their third NFL championship in 1938 with a 23 – 17 win over the Green Bay Packers.

* Stever Avery, NFL player for the Green Bay Packers, Pittsburgh Steelers

* Bob Kroll, former NFL player for the Green Bay Packers

* Jerry Woods, former NFL player for the Green Bay Packers

This was seemingly confirmed by the results of the first two interleague championship games, in January 1967 and 1968, in which the NFL champion Green Bay Packers, coached by the legendary Vince Lombardi, easily defeated the AFL's Kansas City Chiefs and Oakland Raiders.

The Colts did well under Shula, losing to the Cleveland Browns in the 1964 NFL Championship Game and, in 1965, losing in overtime to the Green Bay Packers in a tiebreaking game to decide the NFL Western Division championship.

The National Football League ( NFL ) champion Green Bay Packers defeated the American Football League ( AFL ) champion Kansas City Chiefs by the score of 35 – 10.

Still, many sports writers and fans believed that any team in the older NFL was vastly superior to any club in the upstart AFL, and thus expected that Green Bay would blowout Kansas City.

Green Bay went on to win NFL Championships in 1961, 1962, 1965, 1966, and 1967.

Green Bay also had a superb defense, which displayed its talent on the final drive of the NFL Championship Game, stopping the Dallas Cowboys on 4 consecutive plays starting on the Packers 2-yard line to win the game.

Kansas City owner Lamar Hunt was the person who founded the AFL, while Green Bay was widely considered one of the better teams in NFL history ( even if they couldn't claim to be founding members of their own league ).

The National Football League ( NFL ) champion Green Bay Packers defeated the American Football League ( AFL ) champion Oakland Raiders by the score of 33 – 14.

Green Bay would then come from behind to defeat the Dallas Cowboys in the NFL championship game for the second year in a row, in one of the most famous games in NFL lore: The Ice Bowl.

The Ravens triumphed over the New York Giants in Super Bowl XXXV at the conclusion of the 2000 season, making them one of four NFL teams to win in their lone Super Bowl appearance, along with the New Orleans Saints, New York Jets, and Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

*" Cadillac ", nickname of NFL player Carnell Williams of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers

In 1991, the NFL announced plans to add two teams, its first expansion since the 1976 addition of the Seattle Seahawks and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

The Saints failed to make the playoffs in 2001 and 2002, although in the latter year they had the distinction of beating the eventual Super Bowl XXXVII champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers in both of their regular season meetings, only the second team to do so in NFL history.

They are currently members of the Western Division of the National Football Conference ( NFC ), and joined the NFL in 1976 as an expansion team along with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Also in 2003, Tomlinson accumalated 195 total yards from scrimmage in a late season game against the Packers to raise his season total to 2, 011 and became the first player in team history and the eighth player in NFL history to record consecutive 2, 000-yard seasons.

The Colts finished a distant second in the West to the Packers in 1966, and in 1967, with the NFL divided into four divisions of four teams each, went undefeated with two ties through their first 13 games, but lost the game and the Coastal Division championship to the Los Angeles Rams on the final Sunday of the season — under newly-instituted tiebreakers, Los Angeles won the division championship as it had better net points in the two games the teams played ( the Rams win and an earlier tie ).

The NFL champion, in both cases the Packers, had easily won the first two Super Bowls over the AFL winner.

The Packers finished the 1966 NFL season at 12-2, and defeated the Dallas Cowboys, 34-27, in the 1966 NFL Championship Game.

The Packers were an NFL dynasty turning around what had been a losing team just eight years earlier.

Packers veteran quarterback Bart Starr was the top-rated quarterback in the NFL for 1966, and won the NFL Most Valuable Player Award, completing 156 out of 251 ( 62. 2 percent ) passes for 2, 257 yards, 14 touchdowns, and only 3 interceptions.

") Lombardi was under intense pressure from the entire NFL that the Packers not only win but preferably win big.

The NFL allows a quarterback in a shotgun formation to receive a forward pass.

The Green Bay Packers ( left ) in the shotgun in a game against the New York Giants in 2007 NFL season | 2007

John Brodie was the first NFL shotgun quarterback, beating out former starter Y.

Most NFL teams only used the shotgun on obvious passing downs or when they are behind and need to pass almost every down to catch up.

Many college quarterbacks, such as Tim Tebow who almost exclusively used the shotgun at Florida, have difficulty adapting to NFL offenses where most snaps are taken under center.

However, with the spread offense spreading to the NFL, the shotgun is used more since the spread allows for more effective running.

In 2007, the New England Patriots used the shotgun with great effectiveness as a base formation for the most potent offense in the history of the NFL ; in fact, they were the first team in NFL history to use it for the majority of their offensive plays.

It was noted at the time that he was only eligible because of the shotgun formation ( an NFL quarterback who takes a snap from underneath the center was and still is an ineligible receiver, a rule not found in any amateur level of American football ).

The shotgun is also used in college but running is used more often than in the NFL.

* Red Hickey – NFL player and head coach ; credited with creating the shotgun formation.