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The 1996 season was the Green Bay Packers' 76th season in the National Football League (NFL), their 78th overall and their fifth under head coach Mike Holmgren.The franchise won its third Super Bowl and league-record 12th NFL Championship.
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 ...
Lombardi also holds the Packers' record for highest regular season and postseason winning percentage (.746 and .900 respectively). [7] After Lombardi resigned from coaching in 1967, the Packers again languished, this time for almost 25 years. From 1968 to 1991, the Packers had five head coaches, none of whom had a winning percentage over .488.
Then-Packers president Bob Harlan credited Wolf, Holmgren, Favre, and White for ultimately changing the fortunes of the organization and turning the Green Bay Packers into a model NFL franchise. A 2007 panel of football experts at ESPN ranked the 1996 Packers the 6th-greatest team ever to play in the Super Bowl.
9. 1996 Green Bay Packers, won Super Bowl 31 (XXXI) ... And from a numbers standpoint, this club ranks favorably with any in Green Bay's vaunted history, going 13-3 in the regular season before ...
At 18 seasons on the active roster, Aaron Rodgers is the most tenured player in Packers' history. The Green Bay Packers are a professional American football team based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The Packers have competed in the National Football League (NFL) since 1921, two years after their original founding by Curly Lambeau and George Whitney ...
In 1996, the Packers posted an NFC-best 13–3 regular season record after winning eight of their first nine games to start the season. After losing two straight games in November, they finished off the regular season winning their remaining five games, including dominating wins over two playoff teams: the Denver Broncos , 41–6, and the ...
The NFC had a streak in which its champion won 13 consecutive Super Bowls, from the 1984 NFC champion San Francisco 49ers through the 1996 NFC champion Green Bay Packers. Overall, the NFC champion has won 27 of the 54 Super Bowls played since the formation of the NFC with the AFL–NFL merger through the end of the 2023 season.