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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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 .
The Super Bowl season began with defense, when the Packers stopped Michael Vick on Green Bay's 5-yard line, forcing a field goal, and then stopped Vick on fourth-and-1 at the Packers' 42 with 2 ...
Paul Vernon Hornung (December 23, 1935 – November 13, 2020), nicknamed "the Golden Boy", was an American professional football halfback and kicker who played for the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League (NFL) from 1957 to 1966 (except the 1963 NFL season, for which he was suspended after a scandal involving gambling and associating with gamblers).
Nixon's lost fumble was the first in a series of blunders in a 22-10 loss at the Philadelphia Eagles in the wild-card round Sunday night, an injury-marred game that ended the Packers' season.
Almost all of the Packers coaches won their awards after helping lead the team to significant improvements in their record from the season before or from achieving postseason success. Lombardi won his first coach of the year award his first season with the Packers, after the Packers achieved a record of 7–5 a season after going 1–10–1 ...