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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.
Hornung scored 19 points (a touchdown, three field goals, and four extra points) [7] for the Packers and was named the MVP of the game, and awarded a 1962 Chevrolet Corvette from Sport magazine. [8] The victory was the first of five NFL titles won in a seven-season span by the Packers and their head coach, Vince Lombardi. It was the Packers ...
This period included the 2011 season, where the team won 15 games, the most the Packers have won in a single season. [4] The Packers have also experienced periods of extended failure in their history. The two most notable times were from (1945–1958), where the franchise never placed higher than 3rd in the league standings and recorded the ...
Yankee Stadium during a New York Giants - Cleveland Browns game in 1961. The 1961 NFL season was the 42nd regular season of the National Football League (NFL). The league expanded to 14 teams with the addition of the Minnesota Vikings, after the team's founders declined to be charter members of the new American Football League.
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The Packers will face Chicago again with a playoff berth on the line. The things you forgot (or maybe not) about a legendary Packers season finale vs. Bears in 2013 Skip to main content
Highlighting the good, the bad and the ugly from the Packers' 31-26 loss to the Buccaneers in the NFC Championship Game.
The following season, the Packers advanced to the 1960 NFL Championship Game, but lost to the Philadelphia Eagles in Lombardi's only post-season loss as a head coach. The 1961 season was Starr's first season as a full-time starting quarterback for the Packers, throwing for over 2,400 yards and 16 touchdown passes, leading the Packers to an 11-3 ...