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The Packers ended the season by shutting out the New York Giants 37–0 in the NFL Championship Game, the first title game ever played in Green Bay. This was the Packers seventh NFL league championship. The 1961 Packers also featured 12 future Hall of Famers, the most on any single team in NFL history.
Green Bay Packers seasonal records; Season Team League [4] Conference Division Regular season [4] Postseason results [10] Awards Head coaches [11] Notes Finish W L T; 1919: 1919 – – – – 10: 1: 0 – – – The Packers did not compete in a professional league until 1921. [4] 1920: 1920 – – – – 9: 1: 1 – – – 1921: 1921 ...
The game was a match-up of the Eastern Conference champion New York Giants (10–3–1) and the Western Conference champion Green Bay Packers (11–3). [6] The home team Packers were a 3 + 1 ⁄ 3-point favorite. [1] Packers Ray Nitschke, Boyd Dowler, and Paul Hornung, were on leave from the U.S. Army. [1]
The 1961 NFL season was the 42nd regular season of the National Football League (NFL). ... Green Bay Packers: 11–3–0 New York Giants: 10–3–1 Final standings
Meanwhile, in the same period, the Green Bay Packers were dominant. From 1994 to 2022 (the 29 seasons when Detroit never won the division), the Packers won the NFC Central/North 15 times, more ...
The Packers and Browns met three times in that span, all Green Bay victories, primarily due to Taylor's efforts. The last of those meetings was the 1965 NFL Championship Game, which turned out to be Brown's last game. [56] [55] The first meeting between Taylor and Brown was a week-five game in 1961.
In August 1955, the Packers announced plans for a new stadium in Green Bay, with a seating capacity of 32,000. [19] In April 1956, Green Bay voters responded by approving (70.3%) a bond issue to finance the new stadium. [20] [21] The original cost in 1957 was $960,000 (paid off in 1978), and its seating capacity was 32,500.
Green Bay's 2010 off-season was mainly concentrated on improving their faulty offensive line. In the season opener, the Packers faced an Eagles team that was playing without quarterback Donovan McNabb for the first time in a decade. However, the offensive line failed to deliver again as Rodgers took three sacks in the first half and also threw ...