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Green Bay quarterback Bart Starr was named the MVP for the second straight time, becoming the first back-to-back Super Bowl MVP for his 13 of 24 passes for 202 yards and one touchdown. The Packers won their third consecutive World Championship, the second such occasion in NFL history (the 1929–31 Green Bay Packers did it first).
Green Bay's victory in Super Bowl II over the Oakland Raiders was the fifth world championship for the Packers under Lombardi and the last game he coached for the Packers. The 1967 Packers became the first team in NFL history to win three consecutive championship games, and the second team in NFL history to three-peat as champions, after the ...
After defeating the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 21–7 and San Francisco 49ers 23–10 in the playoffs, the Packers returned to the Super Bowl as an 11 1 / 2 point favorite. The team ended up losing in an upset to John Elway and the Denver Broncos in Super Bowl XXXII , by the score of 31–24.
The game time temperature lived up to the "Ice Bowl II" moniker, with a reported kick-off temperature of 3 °F (−16 °C) with a −17° wind chill. The Packers won 30–13, earning their first trip to the Super Bowl since 1967. The Packers then went on to win Super Bowl XXXI.
Green Bay Packers guard Jerry Kramer, right, carries coach Vince Lombardi off the field by after the Packers defeated the Oakland Raiders 33-14 in Super Bowl 2 in Miami on Jan. 14, 1968.
The 1966 Green Bay Packers season was their 48th season overall and their 46th in the National Football League (NFL). The defending NFL champions had a league-best regular season record of 12–2, led by eighth-year head coach Vince Lombardi and quarterback Bart Starr, in his eleventh NFL season.
Super Bowl XXXII was an American football game played between the National Football Conference (NFC) champion and defending Super Bowl XXXI champion Green Bay Packers and the American Football Conference (AFC) champion Denver Broncos to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 1997 season. The Broncos defeated the Packers by ...
The Packers went on to a second consecutive championship win in Super Bowl II, where Anderson was the team's second leading rusher with 48 yards and a touchdown, while also catching two passes for 18 yards. He also punted the ball six times for 239 yards.