Four down, two to go
Tuesday, January 18, 2011 at 2:24PM 
Flag captured after the Torching of Atlanta.
Next up are Da Bears! They constituted our second consecutive victim (after the must-win over the Giants in Week 16) in this Long March to what will be our league-leading 13th NFL Championship.
The Packers have a mere 12 championship now:
- 1929-1930-1931 [first three-peat]
- 1936
- 1939
- 1944
- 1961-1962
- 1965-1966-1967 [second three-peat], and
- 1996.
No other team in NFL has ever three-peated, nor won 5 championships in 7 years. Bart Starr is also the only QB ever to win 5 championships.
This is creed I was raised to believe in.
The Bears, BTW, are second in the NFL with 9 league championships. Steelers have six (4th after the Giants, who have 7 total), Jets just the one.
Learn your NFL history, which begins in 1920 with only the Bears (originally Decatur Staleys) surviving from that year, to be joined by the Packers in 1921--the oldest continuously operating team with the same team name. Steelers began in the - real - NFL in 1933. Jets are the only true AFL team still in hunt, having started with that league in 1960 as the Titans.
[I acknowledge a brainy assist here by Stuart Abrams, who apparently wastes more time on this than I do!]
Reader Comments (4)
The Bears started out as the Decatur Staleys and moved to Chicago where they joined the Chicago Cardinals, who later moved to St. Louis and Arizona.
The Jets started out as the Titans and played in the Polo Grounds and Downing Stadium (now Icahn Stadium) on Randall's Island, often before crowds numbered in the hundreds. Sonny Werblin bought the franchise, moved them to the new Shea Stadium, renamed them the Jets because of the proximity to the airports, hired Ewbank as coach and general manager, and snagged Namath for a record signing bonus of $400,000. The Jets won the Super Bowl as an actual AFL team, because the real merger did not take place for another two years, when the AFL was renamed the AFC and 3 old NFL teams (Steelers, Colts, Browns) were moved to the AFC. I always liked the old AFL because of the way QBs like Namath, Lamonica, Hadl, Dawson, and Kemp opened up the passing game. I was very upset when the Packers beat the Raiders in SB2. I lost a bet to my father, but I was a kid in high school at the time, the very definition of foolish.
Since the merger, old NFL teams the Steelers and Colts have won a combined 8 SB titles, but the old AFL teams - Raiders 3, Dolphins 2, Broncos 2, Patriots 2, but the Jets still only the 1 - have held their own.
The Bears-Packers Game should be the game of the year. More people may watch the superbowl, but this is the one that will matter. It may even surpass the 67 Ice Bowl in importance. This is old school football, the way it ought to be, no domes, let it snow, let it snow, let it snow...
Tom,
While I agree with you in so many things, on this we part ways. I will be stridently rooting for my Bears to stomp your Packers soundly. May the best team win. (and by "best team", I mean the Bears. Clearly.)
I wonder if it'll surpass 'the Real Super Bowl' of January 1995 -- the Cowboys/49ers NFC Championship Game? That has to be the biggest heartbreaker for Cowboys fans in history, to miss the chance to 3-Peat. And to lose in such snakebit fashion, though Aikman and Co battled back after three turnovers/quick scores in rapid succession.
Signing Deion away from the Niners and winning it next year was sweet though it would have been better to beat the Niners than Favre's Packers. In 97' the Packers beat Dallas like a drum in Green Bay and we were done winning Super Bowls.