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.

The Giants finished 10 – 6, and became NFC Champions after defeating the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Dallas Cowboys, and Green Bay Packers in the NFC Playoffs.

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 ).

After four years as quarterback coach for the Green Bay Packers, Mariucci returned to Cal as Head Coach in 1996 where the team finished 6 – 6, including a loss in the Aloha Bowl to the U. S. Naval Academy.

The Patriots finished with an 11 – 5 record, won the AFC championship, but lost to the Green Bay Packers at Super Bowl XXXI.

He also beat a Green Bay Packers fan up during a game, after the fan ( along with Red ) repeatedly insulted Eric for wearing a Chicago Bears jersey ; however, Eric turned to violence only when the fan insulted Red for telling him to stop arguing once the game had finished, as Red only saw the argument as being appropriate banter between opposing fans during the game.

Despite his play, the Bears finished in third place in the NFL Western Conference ( behind the Green Bay Packers and Baltimore Colts )

Under Holmgren, Bosco led the Cougars to a national championship in 1984, finished third in Heisman Trophy balloting and was drafted by the Green Bay Packers in 1985.

Holmgren's Packers posted an NFL-best 48 – 16 ( 75. 0 %) record, finished first in the NFC Central Division three times, second once, and set a 7 – 3 mark in the playoffs between 1995 and 1998.

Harris was a key defensive player for a Packers team that finished 10-6 during the 1989 season, their best record since 1972.

The Packers won the game, 16-7, and finished the season with a 14-1 record.

Green finished the drive with another 1-yard touchdown run, and Longwell's extra point gave the Packers a 27-20 lead with 2: 39 left in regulation.

He finished his NFL coaching career with his old team, the Packers, from 1984 – 1987.

Favre finished the game with 331 passing yards, just 1 yard short of a Packers playoff record.

Atlanta finished with the best record in the NFC at 13-3, but the Falcons were upset by the eventual Super Bowl Champion Green Bay Packers in the Divisional Playoffs.

The Packers finished ahead of the Panthers by 11 points, but Dallas defeated the New York Giants later that night to claim the final playoff spot.

The Giants finished 10 – 6 and missed the playoffs after losses to the Eagles, who won the NFC East, as well as the eventual Super Bowl Champion Green Bay Packers.

The Green Bay Packers finished the season with a 10 – 6 record and became the first number 6-seeded team in the NFC to compete in the Super Bowl.

Neither team lost their remaining games ; the Packers finished at 12 – 0 – 1, the Giants at 13 – 1 – 1, giving coach Curly Lambeau and the Packers their first league title.

Meanwhile, the Green Bay Packers were named the NFL champions for the second straight year after they finished the season with the best record 1930 Green Bay Packers season.

In Week Thirteen, the Giants beat the Yellow Jackets, 14 – 6, while the Packers lost to the Bears, 21 – 0, cutting Green Bay's hold on first place to 4 / 10ths of a percentage point,. 769 to. 765 ; the Giants finished their season at 13 – 4 – 0, while 10 – 3 – 0 Green Bay had a final game at Portsmouth.

Meanwhile, the Green Bay Packers were named the NFL champions for the third consecutive time after they finished the season with the best record 1931 Green Bay Packers season.

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

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.

The Cowboys had chances to go to the first two Super Bowls, but narrowly lost to the Green Bay Packers in both the 1966 and 1967 NFL Championship games.

In the 1966 title game, the Cowboys lost because they failed to score a touchdown on 4 attempts starting from the Packers 2-yard line on the game's final drive.

* NFL Championship – Green Bay Packers won 23-12 over the Cleveland Browns on January 2, 1966

In 1966 the Chiefs won their first AFL Championship and reached the first ever Super Bowl, which the Chiefs lost to the Green Bay Packers.

* 1966 ( NFL )-Green Bay Packers 34, Dallas Cowboys 27

* 1966 1st World Championship ( Super Bowl I )-1 / 15 / 67 NFL Green Bay Packers 35, AFL Kansas City Chiefs 10

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

His two most heartbreaking defeats came in NFL Championship play against the Green Bay Packers, 34 – 27 in Dallas ( 1966 ), and the famous " Ice Bowl " game, 21 – 17 in Green Bay ( 1967 ).

The 1967 game was a rematch of the 1966 NFL title game ; the Packers had won consecutive World Championships in 1965 and 1966.

He moved on to the Green Bay Packers of the NFL and served for two years as an assistant coach to Vince Lombardi in 1966 and 1967 when the Packers won Super Bowl I and Super Bowl II.

For 1965, the AFL tried to return to the practice of playing its game on a Sunday during the off-week between the NFL playoff, slating its championship contest for December 26, 1965 while the NFL's game wasn't held until January 2, 1966 ; unfortunately, the Colts and Packers required a Western Conference tiebreaker on the December 26, 1965 date --- and since that game went overtime, the TV audience for the Bills-Chargers game in San Diego was diminished considerably.

( 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.

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.

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

The NFL Green Bay Packers in the shotgun formation against the New York Giants on September 16, 2007.

* 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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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