Packers start a movement to highlight their rich history and iconic legacy as Chiefs eye potential three-peat
Most of the NFL world is treating the Kansas City Chiefs like it has the chance of being the first team to win three consecutive championships. The Green Bay Packers are making sure to remind everyone that's not the case. While the Chiefs would be the first team to win three consecutive Super Bowl titles, […]
Most of the NFL world is treating the Kansas City Chiefs like it has the chance of being the first team to win three consecutive championships. The Green Bay Packers are making sure to remind everyone that's not the case.
While the Chiefs would be the first team to win three consecutive Super Bowl titles, that's a technicality. The Packers won three straight titles twice, and in the second sequence, two of them were Super Bowls—the first one happened exactly one year before the NFL-AFL Championship Game was created.
In their website, the Packers have made sure to mention the value of those titles, even if the NFL is leaning on the hype to promote the next Super Bowl.
This is what Packers team historian Cliff Christl wrote.
'More importantly, it would show an ignorance of NFL history for anyone not to mention the Packers twice winning three straight NFL championships. They did it under Curly Lambeau from 1929-31 and again under Vince Lombardi, as you referenced, from 1965-67. However, I anticipate that if the Chiefs win the Super Bowl again next season, they'll be widely hailed among national media as the first three-peat champs. In fact, it has already started.
On Yahoo's Sports AM's Feb. 12, 2024 post, the morning after the Chiefs beat San Francisco, Kendall Baker and Jeff Tracy wrote: "Travis Kelce and Andy Reid both confirmed they'll be back next season as Kansas City tries to become the NFL's first three-peat champs." Were the writers clueless to the fact that the NFL existed before the 1966 season? Or did they just have no idea that the Packers had won three straight twice? It's hard to know. But they probably have plenty of company.
That's why I think we as an organization – and maybe you as fans – need to start reminding the sports world of what is the Packers' greatest pride and joy: 13 NFL championships, the most in league history; twice being three-peat champs, the only franchise ever to do so; and five titles in seven years, the only franchise to win that many in a decade.'
After that, Packers.com senior writer Wes Hodkiewicz also expressed his opinion about what the trend around the NFL is.
"The league doesn't do nearly enough to honor anything that happened before January 15, 1967," Hodkiewicz wrote. "The NFL is slowly forgetting it played football before Super Bowl I. I fear we'll move past the point of no return if Kansas City completes the trifecta."
Yes, football was obviously different in the 1920s and 1930s. If it was easier or harder to win a championship with fewer teams, that's a matter of opinion. But those titles are an undisputed part of history.
If the NFL ever expands to 36, 40 teams, and football changes, it won't be fair to devalue this current era's champions just because of that. Each era of the NFL has its own challenges and accomplishments, and the Green Bay Packers have a beautiful and unique history—and 13 championships, not four—to speak for it.
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