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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.
Green Bay Packers players who won a Super Bowl MVP award; Image Player Position Years with Packers Super Bowl (season) Refs. Bart Starr: Quarterback: 1956–71: Super Bowl I (1) [49] [131] Super Bowl II (2) Desmond Howard: Returner: 1996: Super Bowl XXXI [131] [139] Aaron Rodgers: Quarterback: 2005–22: Super Bowl XLV [51] [131]
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 game has changed quite a bit since its inception 51 years ago when the Green Bay Packers won the first-ever NFL championship. 51 years of elation and heartbreak: Looking back at the history of ...
The Packers have won 13 league championships, the most in NFL history, with nine pre-Super Bowl NFL titles and four Super Bowl victories. The Packers, under coach Vince Lombardi , won the first two Super Bowls in 1966 and 1967 ; they were the only NFL team to defeat the American Football League (AFL) before the AFL–NFL merger .
Super Bowl Winning QB Team Losing QB Team 1966 AFL/NFL: I: Bart Starr * MVP: Green Bay Packers n: Len Dawson * Kansas City Chiefs a: 1967 AFL/NFL: II: Bart Starr * MVP: Green Bay Packers n: Daryle Lamonica: Oakland Raiders a: 1968 AFL/NFL: III: Joe Namath * MVP: New York Jets a: Earl Morrall: Baltimore Colts n: 1969 AFL/NFL: IV: Len Dawson ...
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.
The Western Conference champion Green Bay Packers (12–2), defending league champions, were hosted by the Dallas Cowboys (10–3–1), the Eastern Conference champions. At the time, the home field for the NFL Championship Game alternated between the two conferences; even-numbered years were hosted by the Eastern and odd-numbered by the Western.