The Philadelphia Eagles drubbed the Kansas City Chiefs 40-22 in the Superbowl yesterday and Packer fans- like yours truly -are glad they did. That means the championship feat of a ‘three peat remains with the Pack – and no other team since the 1967 Green Bay Packers has been able to claim it.
For many fans of the Green Bay Packers, the
possibility of another team matching something that only the Packers have done
in NFL history was enough to sway their rooting interest in Super Bowl LIX.
The Kansas City Chiefs’
opportunity to three-peat would have been the first time an NFL team pulled off
that feat entirely in the Super Bowl era and would have written them into the
history books next to the Packers as the only teams to ever do it.
Younger fans may not know that before the Superbowls started there were NFL championships. And to put an exclamation point on that the Packers have won 13 league championships, the most in NFL history, with nine pre-Super Bowl NFL titles and four Super Bowl victories.
As for threepeat: Green Bay won the NFL title in 1965 — the
year before the AFL and NFL champs first played in what is now known as the
Super Bowl — and then the Packers won the first two Super Bowls against the AFL
champions for an NFL three-peat that the players still take pride in having
achieved. The Packers won the 1965 championship with a 23-12 win over Cleveland,
holding Jim Brown to just 50 yards rushing in his final NFL game.
Packers
fans have a big reason to be happy that the Chiefs lost the Super Bowl
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