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The Green Bay Packers won the first two Super Bowls, and also won the NFL Championship Game the preceding year. If the Super Bowl had been instituted that year, the Packers would have qualified and faced the Buffalo Bills of the AFL. The Miami Dolphins appeared in three consecutive Super Bowls (VI, VII, and VIII) – winning the last two.
Won Super Bowl I (10) (vs. Chiefs) 35–10 Bart Starr (MVP Tooltip NFL Most Valuable Player Award, SB MVP Tooltip Super Bowl Most Valuable Player Award) [24] [27] First season the AFL–NFL World Championship Game (later renamed the Super Bowl) is played. The Packers are recognized as both NFL Champions and AFL–NFL World Champions. [28] 1967: ...
The Bears won the 1941 meeting, 33–14, and eventually defeated the New York Giants in the 1941 NFL Championship Game, and the Packers won the 2011 meeting, 21–14, en route to a Super Bowl XLV win over the Pittsburgh Steelers. The teams' first meeting was a victory for the Bears (known as the Staleys at the time) in 1921 in a shutout, 20–0.
BOLD formatting indicates that the game was won. Starr was 3–1 in NFL Championship games (1960, 1961, 1962, and 1965) played before the NFL and AFL met in the first Super Bowl. Dawson was 1–0 in an AFL Championship game played before the NFL and AFL first met in the Super Bowl.
The Packers entered the Super Bowl never having trailed by more than 7 points at any point during the season—a feat that had never been accomplished during a complete season in the Super Bowl era. The last team to complete a season with this distinction was the Detroit Lions in 1962. [25] In the Super Bowl game itself, the Packers never trailed.
While the Packers took home the 24-22 win with a last-second field goal by the recently signed Brandon McManus, neither team actually looked great, and the chippy game felt closer to a draw.
Three Packers players have won the award: Starr twice in the first two Super Bowls (I and II), Desmond Howard in Super Bowl XXXI and Rodgers in Super Bowl XLV. [131] Starting in 2001, the awardee is selected near the end of the game by electronic fan voting, which makes up 20% of the vote tally, while the remaining 80% is chosen by a panel of ...
That game also occurred in a season when the 49ers would go on to lose the Super Bowl. [24] Mostert's 220 yards were the second-most in an NFL playoff game at the time, behind Eric Dickerson's 248 yards in 1986. [5] He also became the first player in the NFL history to rush for more than 200 yards and score four touchdowns in a playoff game. [21]