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

In 2010, with a regular season record of 13 – 3, their best regular season record since the 1998 Super Bowl season, the Falcons secured a third straight winning season, their fourth overall divisional title, and the top overall seed in the NFC playoffs ; however, the Falcons were overpowered by the eventual Super Bowl XLV champion Green Bay Packers in the NFC Divisional Playoffs 48 – 21.

The Vikings were 11 – 2 after 14 weeks, but slumped briefly, losing their last three to the Rams, Packers and Colts while starting quarterback Daunte Culpepper was hampered by injury.

The Vikings then went on to face their other divisional rival the Chicago Bears, but were defeated, and then went on to be blown out 31 – 3 in a rematch with the Packers the following game.

In the 2010 season against the Green Bay Packers, on September 12, 2010, the Eagles wore uniforms similar to the ones that were worn by the 1960 championship team in honor the 50th anniversary of that team.

The teams that played were the Green Bay Packers and the Kansas City Chiefs, with the Packers winning 35-10.

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

Although the Packers lost 17 – 13 to the Philadelphia Eagles, they had sent a clear message that they were no longer losers.

Despite Oakland's accomplishments, and the fact that most experts agreed that this was the weakest of the all the Packer NFL championship teams, the Packers were 14-point favorites to win the Super Bowl.

The Redskins were making their first Super Bowl appearance after posting an 11-3 regular season record and playoff victories over the Green Bay Packers and the Dallas Cowboys.

In the NFC, Dallas ' first opponent in the playoffs was the Green Bay Packers, who were coming off a thrilling 28-24 win over the Detroit Lions in the wildcard round in which quarterback Brett Favre had thrown the winning touchdown pass to Sterling Sharpe with only 55 seconds left in the game.

However, after a narrow 21-20 win against the Giants, the Cowboys regained their dominating form, trouncing the Arizona Cardinals ( who were playing their home games at Sun Devil Stadium ) 37-13 on Christmas night at Arizona as part of Monday Night Football, and then cruising through the playoffs with convincing wins against the Eagles and the Packers.

In addition to having the reputation of being a poor team, the Packers were unable to attract good players because many did not want to play in Green Bay's cold winter climate and the fact that they were a small market team.

As Holmgren, Favre, and the Packers continued to win, they were able to attract impact free agents like veteran defensive end Reggie White, nicknamed the " Minister of Defense ", who joined the team in 1993.

Among these were Buck's descriptions of, The Green Bay Packers 1967 Ice Bowl, 2nd Half CBS announcing duties with Ray Scott & Frank Gifford, "( Third and Goal Quarterback sneak, Touch Down GREEN BAY!

The athletic teams of Armour High School were formerly known as the " Packers " in reference to the well known packing company, although today the high school plays its sports jointly with Tripp-Delmont High School as the " Tripp-Delmont / Armour Nighthawks.

The sell-out streak has had the effect ( intended or not ) of ensuring that all Packers home games being televised every year in Green Bay and Milwaukee, a streak that started in 1973 ( prior to that time, local telecasts of home games were disallowed regardless of how many tickets were sold ).

In 2010, plans were announced by the Green Bay Packers to install new high definition scoreboards in place of their current scoreboards ; plans for a new sound system were announced as well.

When the Packers were a dynasty in the 1960s with guards and tackles, he was busy stockpiling size for the next generation of linemen.

The play has also been favored by current Packers head coach Mike McCarthy, and QB Aaron Rodgers has made frequent use of sneaks, especially during the team's 2010 championship season.

In the 2012 divisional game Coughlin coached the Giants to a 37-20 win over the favored Green Bay Packers.

The seasoned Green Bay Packers, defending champions of the 1965 season, were favored by a touchdown over the talented, but young Cowboys team, who had no players with championship experience and only one player over 30, linebacker Chuck Howley.

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.

After defeating the defending Super Bowl champions, the Dallas Cowboys, they advanced to the NFC Championship, but fell 30-13 to the Packers, who went on to win the Super Bowl.

Under coach Vince Lombardi the Packers dominated the 1960s, defeating the Cowboys in four regular-season meetings and two playoff games ; on January 1, 1967 the Packers held off a late Cowboys drive inside the ten yard line to win 34-27 on a game ending interception of a Meredith pass in the endzone.

On December 31 of 1967 the Packers hosted the Cowboys in the league championship game in cold so brutal the game was nicknamed The Ice Bowl ; Packers quarterback Bart Starr's last-second quarterback sneak was the final touchdown in a 21-17 Packers win.

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

They had to win and have the Packers lose in order to get into the 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 ).

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.

Meanwhile, the Redskins advanced to the Super Bowl without allowing a touchdown in either their 16-3 playoff win over the Green Bay Packers or their 26-3 NFC Championship Game victory over the Cowboys.

After giving up 31 points in their opening day regular season loss to the Dallas Cowboys, the Giants had not given up more than 20 points in a game until the last game of the season, in a 55 – 24 win over the Green Bay Packers.

The Cowboys went on to stave off an attempted Packers comeback in the second half and win the game 27-17.

With the Packers win, they became the third team to win Super Bowls on three different networks ( I-broadcast on both CBS and NBC, II-CBS, and Fox ).

The Rams began their postseason run with a 45 – 17 win over the Green Bay Packers in the divisional round.

** The Green Bay Packers become the first team in the modern era to win their third consecutive NFL Championship, 21-17 over the Dallas Cowboys in what became known as " The Ice Bowl ".

On one episode while the gang is at a Bears vs. Packers game, Eric comes to the seat in a Walter Payton jersey and is booed by the surrounding Packers fans.

Their fellow second-year NFC expansion team, the Carolina Panthers, also got to their conference championship game, where they lost 30 – 13 to the eventual Super Bowl champion Green Bay Packers.

In the wild card game, the Vikings defeated the rival Green Bay Packers in their first-ever playoff meeting, 31 – 17.

The Atlanta Falcons had defeated the Packers in a 1991 game in which Favre did not participate.

The next game, the Giants lost to the eventual Super Bowl Champion Green Bay Packers 45 – 17, and at 9 – 6, they faced the Redskins.

They won this game 20 – 17, in overtime, with Tynes scoring the winning field goal as he did four years earlier in the same game against the Packers.

During the 2011 wild-card game the Eagles faced off against the eventual Super Bowl XLV champion Green Bay Packers and lost 21 – 16.

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.

From that point on, however, the Chargers began a six game skid with losses to the Jets, Chiefs, Packers, Raiders, Bears and Broncos with the first four by only a score and against Denver in overtime.

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.

In the week prior to the game, Chiefs cornerback Fred " The Hammer " Williamson garnered considerable publicity by boasting he would use his " hammer "-- forearm blows to the head — to destroy the Packers ' receivers, stating " Two hammers to ( Boyd ) Dowler, one to ( Carroll ) Dale should be enough.

During the last three weeks, the Packers gave up an uncharacteristic total of 78 points, after having yielded only about a dozen points per game in their first 11 contests.