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The Packers were led by ninth-year head coach Vince Lombardi and veteran quarterback Bart Starr, in his twelfth season. 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 NFL playoffs following the 1967 NFL season culminated in the NFL championship game on New Year's Eve, and determined who would represent the league against the American Football League champions in Super Bowl II. With 16 teams in the league in 1967, this was the first season that the NFL used a four-team playoff tournament.
The Packers also won three consecutive NFL Championships for the second time in franchise history (1965–1967). [7] The most recent period of success ranges from 1993 to the present under the leadership of head coaches Mike Holmgren , Mike McCarthy and Matt LaFleur , where the franchise has reached the playoffs 23 times, with three Super Bowl ...
The 1967 NFL season was the 48th regular season of the National Football League.The league expanded to 16 teams with the addition of the New Orleans Saints.. The two eight-team divisions became two eight-team conferences split into two divisions each: the newly renamed Eastern Conference divisions were Capitol (Dallas, New Orleans, Philadelphia, and Washington) and Century (Cleveland, New York ...
The 1967 season was the last for Lombardi as the ... During the 2010 season, the Packers paid tribute to their historical roots with a throwback jersey modeled after ...
Using the Playoff Bowl (and loss) as motivation in 1965, the Packers won the first of three consecutive NFL championships from 1965 to 1967. The Packers remain the sole NFL team to win three consecutive titles in the post-season era, which began in 1933. During this successful run, the Packers also won the first two Super Bowls in
The 1965 Green Bay Packers season was their 47th season overall and their 45th season in the National Football League. The team finished with a 10–3–1 record under seventh-year head coach Vince Lombardi , earning a tie for first place in the Western Conference with the Baltimore Colts .
The 1967 game was a rematch of the previous season played in Dallas on January 1, 1967, just 364 days earlier. [9] More than two years after football had become the most popular televised sport in the nation, [ 10 ] this game featured a match up that all of America hoped for in the NFL Championship.