I really hope the Packers win becasue they are my favirote NFL team and I can't stand the Steelers.
The
Green Bay Packers are an
American football team based in
Green Bay, Wisconsin. They are members of the
North Division of the
National Football Conference (NFC) in the
National Football League (NFL). Green Bay is the second-oldest franchise in the NFL.
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The Packers are the last vestige of "small town teams" that were once common in the NFL during the 1920s and 1930s. Founded in 1919 by
Earl "Curly" Lambeau (hence the name
Lambeau Field on which the team plays) and
George Whitney Calhoun, the Green Bay Packers can trace their lineage to other semi-professional teams in Green Bay dating back to 1896. In 1919 and 1920 the Packers competed as a semi-professional football team against clubs from around Wisconsin and the Midwest. They joined the American Professional Football Association (APFA) in 1921, the forerunner to what is known today as the National Football League (NFL). The Packers are the only non-profit, community-owned major league professional sports team in the United States.
The Green Bay Packers have won twelve league championships (more than any other team in the NFL) including nine
NFL Championships prior to the
Super Bowl era and three Super Bowl victories in 1967 (
Super Bowl I), 1968 (
Super Bowl II) and 1996 (
Super Bowl XXXI). The team has historic
rivalries with the
Chicago Bears, whom they have played in over 180 games, and the
Detroit Lions, whom they have played since the 1930s. The Packers also share a fierce blood rivalry with the
Minnesota Vikings, who also reside in the NFC North along with the Packers, Bears and Lions in what is known as the "Black and Blue Division" due to the intensity of the rivalry between the four teams. The
Dallas Cowboys have historically been known as the Packers' largest playoff rivals after the Packers defeated them in the famous
Ice Bowl.
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Beginning with the 1992 season, the Packers had 13 non-losing seasons in a row (their worst record being 8–8 in 1999), two
Super Bowl appearances, and one Super Bowl win (
Super Bowl XXXI). They returned to playoff form with winning campaigns in
2007 (13–3), winning the NFC Championship game to advance to Super Bowl XLV in
2010 (10-6) under current head coach
Mike McCarthy.