Tipa Galeai Jonathan Garvin Rashan Gary Isaiah McDuffie Whitney Mercilus Randy Ramsey Chauncey Rivers Preston Smith Za'Darius Smith Ty Summers Jaire Alexander Rasul Douglas Kabion Ento Shemar Jean-Charles Kevin King Eric Stokes Chandon Sullivan Isaac Yiadom Adrian Amos Henry Black Shawn Davis Innis Gaines Will Redmond Darnell Savage Vernon Scott Somehow the Packers survived the proceedings long enough to be saved, once again, by two seminal events.
That corporation remains in existence today, although "The" was removed from the name in The other was the signing of Don Hutson less than a month later.
According to lore, Hutson actually signed two contracts, one with the Packers and the other with the Dodgers, but was awarded to the Packers by league president Joe Carr.
Carr supposedly settled the dispute based on the times postmarked on the packages containing the contracts mailed by the two clubs. In his second game as a pro, Hutson caught an yard touchdown pass from Arnie Herber that gave the Packers a victory over the Chicago Bears. When he retired 11 years later, Hutson owned 19 NFL records and had revolutionized what was then the position of offensive end. With money in the bank and Hutson shredding defenses like no other player in the game, the Packers would win three more NFL titles under Lambeau: in , and But when Hutson retired following the season, hard times followed.
The Packers became perennial losers for the first time, and they encountered one financial crisis after another. By Thanksgiving Day , the Packers had to play an intra-squad game to raise enough money to finish the season. Meanwhile, the Packers also were losing money on their training quarters at Rockwood Lodge, located along the bay about 15 miles northeast of Green Bay, and Lambeau was immersed in a power struggle with several members of the board of directors.
Fortuitously for the Packers, the well-insured Rockwood was destroyed by fire Jan. The other problems came to a head when Lambeau resigned a week later, ending his year association with the franchise, to become head coach of the Chicago Cardinals. Within a week after Lambeau's departure, the Packers hired Gene Ronzani, a former player and assistant coach with the Bears, to succeed him.
Then, before the end of April, the Packers launched a third stock drive. On the field, the losing prevailed and with two games remaining in the season, Ronzani was forced to resign. The Packers hired Verne Lewellen, a local attorney and one of the stars of their championship teams, as general manager, and plucked Lisle Blackbourn from Marquette University to become their head coach as part of a reshuffling of the organization in the winter of The Packers compiled a disappointing record during Blackbourn's four years as coach, but they also secured their future during that period by building a new, football-only stadium and drafting what would be the nucleus of future championship teams.
On April 3, , voters approved a referendum to fund construction of the stadium. It was dedicated on Sept. It was renamed Lambeau Field in Despite his shortcomings as a coach, Blackbourn had a keen eye for talent — Vince Lombardi would hire him as a scout — and an able, young personnel director in Jack Vainisi, who had been hired by Ronzani and would play a part in luring Lombardi to Green Bay.
After Blackbourn was fired following a finish in , likeable Ray "Scooter" McLean, backfield coach of the Packers since , was hired as his replacement. McLean lasted one season. He submitted his resignation under fire on Dec.
The Packers' search for McLean's replacement lasted more than a month. Lambeau moved back to Green Bay and applied for the general manager post. Forest Evashevski, a highly successful coach at the University of Iowa, was brought to Green Bay for an interview, but declined the job. Other candidates were considered, as well. Finally, at 3 p.
Six days later, Lombardi was officially introduced at a press conference at Green Bay's Hotel Northland where he declared, "I want it understood that I'm in complete command. Although Lombardi had been backfield coach of the New York Giants for eight years, he was relatively unknown in a sports world much different than today. Television was still in its infancy, pro football was largely viewed as a second-rate sport and few, if any, assistant coaches were household names.
In , the Packers captured the Western Conference, only to lose to Philadelphia in the title game. Over nine years, they compiled a glittering record. The Packers would be recognized as the Team of the '60s and as one of the great dynasties in NFL history. Lombardi would be glorified as one of the game's greatest coaches and be posthumously honored by having the Super Bowl trophy named after him. Bengtson coached the Packers from , compiling a record.
He resigned in December Dan Devine, one of the nation's most successful college coaches, succeeded Bengtson as head coach and general manager in January After settling for a record during his first year, Devine and the Packers appeared on the road to new heights when produced a record and the team's first Central Division title since But the Packers' Super Bowl hopes dissolved in the second half of and they slipped to They continued their regression in , going , and Devine resigned.
Winner of a record five NFL championships as a starting quarterback, Bart Starr was the overwhelming choice of Packers fans to succeed Devine, and the executive committee complied by awarding him a three-year contract as head coach and general manager, Dec. Starr asked for "the prayers and patience of Packer fans everywhere … We will earn everything else. Starr had only one season of experience as a coach — he was Devine's quarterbacks coach in — and things didn't turn out as he and Packers fans had hoped.
He was handcuffed by a disastrous trade for aging quarterback John Hadl, which was agreed to by Devine just before the trade deadline of his final season. Having given up five prime draft picks in the Hadl deal, the Packers finished , and again in Starr's first three seasons.
They raised hope with an finish in , but then couldn't get over the hump. Over five more seasons, the Packers enjoyed only one winning record, a finish in the strike-shortened season. Green Bay made the playoffs that year and beat the St.
Louis Cardinals in a home playoff game, but when the Packers went in , Starr was fired the day following a disappointing loss at Soldier Field to the rival Chicago Bears. The Packers replaced Starr with another beloved player from the Lombardi era. Gregg had led Cincinnati into Super Bowl XVI following the season and his record over the seasons was the best in pro football.
He started out with back-to-back seasons as he tried to mold the roster in his own tough-guy image, but he went and in his final two years and resigned Jan. On Feb. Infante, who had been the Cleveland Browns' offensive coordinator, was considered a shrewd play-caller, but except for a finish in , his teams largely struggled on offense and he was fired after four seasons.
By then, Braatz also had been fired and replaced by Ron Wolf, who was given the title of general manager and complete control over the Packers' football operation. Wolf was hired Nov. Braatz had been hired prior to Gregg's final season as coach in a power-sharing arrangement and was fired one week before Wolf was hired. The front-office overhaul was executed by Bob Harlan, who had been named president of the Packers prior to the season after serving the team for 18 years in several administrative roles.
Harlan had joined the Packers when Devine was coach and general manager and had witnessed each coaching hire in the years since finish with a worse record than his predecessor. In the 24 seasons since Lombardi had stepped down as coach, the Packers had finished with a winning record five times and qualified for the playoffs only twice.
Harlan was determined to put an end to the drought. Holmgren, sought by five other clubs, received a five-year contract. Next, Wolf traded for quarterback Brett Favre, who had played little in his rookie season with Atlanta.
Not only hadn't the Packers won in 24 years, but their quarterback situation had been less than desirable for most of that time, as well. The next week, he made his debut as a starter and the Packers were headed in the right direction for the first time in a quarter-century.
In , the Packers surprised the NFL with a finish. Holmgren became only the third head coach in team history to register a winning record in his first season, and it was punctuated by a six-game winning streak, the team's longest since Holmgren guided the Packers into the playoffs in , forging a second-straight record. They also won their first playoff game in 11 years on a "Hail Mary" Favre-to-Sterling Sharpe pass in the final minute that eliminated Detroit, They then fell at Dallas, , in the divisional round.
The Packers reached the playoffs again in and '95, only to be eliminated on two more occasions by the Cowboys. But the Favre-led Packers were on the upswing. After finishing for a third straight time in , they improved to and won their first NFC Central Division title since They also advanced one more round in the playoffs, losing to Dallas in the NFC Championship Game in after getting bounced in the divisional round the year before.
Two highlights of those seasons were holding the incomparable Barry Sanders to minus-1 yard on 13 attempts in a playoff victory over Detroit at Lambeau Field following the season, and formally dethroning the defending Super Bowl champion San Francisco 49ers in their own stadium, 3Com Park, , in a NFC Divisional playoff. Putting nearly three decades of disappointment emphatically behind them, the Packers rewarded their long-patient faithful in Shunting aside eight of their first nine foes, they swept to a record and their second straight division championship.
Displaying impressive consistency on both sides of the ball, they documented their superiority, outscoring three opponents in a postseason sweep. Appropriately, the first two wins were before their Lambeau loyalists — a divisional triumph over the 49ers and a win over the upstart Carolina Panthers in the NFC title game.
The Packers thus entered with an opportunity to win back-to-back Super Bowls for a second time — and came breathtakingly close to achieving their objective.
Sweeping to a second consecutive mark, they smothered the 49ers on a soggy, rain-swept afternoon in San Francisco, Hopes of a repeat were high, however, when Favre engineered an yard drive, knotting the contest, , early in the fourth quarter. But the Broncos later scored with only remaining and a last-minute Packers drive fell short when Favre's pass for tight end Mark Chmura fell incomplete inside the Denver 20, with only 28 seconds left, sealing the Broncos' win.
A third straight Super Bowl trip, a realistic goal at the outset, eluded the Packers in , their 80th season. Historic accomplishment, however, did not, as they advanced to the playoffs for the sixth year in a row, a team record, while posting a seventh consecutive winning season.
They set another team record by stretching their Lambeau Field winning streak to 25 games — the second longest in NFL history — before falling to the Minnesota Vikings on Oct. They finished , equaling another team standard by posting a double-digit victory total for the fourth consecutive year in , in both and The only other time Green Bay had strung together four seasons of plus wins was 67 years earlier — Lambeau's triple NFL champions of in , in , in and in In the wake of these considerable achievements, the Packers' season came to a dramatic and painful end in an NFC Wild Card game at San Francisco, when a lead abruptly dissolved into a 49ers victory.
Steve Young's yard touchdown pass to Terrell Owens sealed the game with just three seconds left. Only five days later, Holmgren resigned to become head coach and director of football operations for the Seattle Seahawks. Crosby came just 3 points away from tying an NFL record for most points scored in a season by a rookie Kevin Butler had points for Chicago in Crosby went four-for-four in field goals, including a long yard field goal and yard and yard kicks, and three-for-three in extra points in the Packers' 33 - 14 win over the St.
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