Chiefs fall short of Super Bowl history; Packers still last NFL three-peat champ
The Kansas City Chiefs fell short of modern NFL history, ensuring that the Green Bay Packers remain — for now — pro football's last club to win three consecutive world titles.
The Kansas City Chiefs fell short of modern NFL history, ensuring that the Green Bay Packers remain — for now — pro football's last club to win three consecutive world titles.
While few if any Champagne corks popped in Wisconsin on Sunday night, there were surely some smiles across Packers Nation as Green Bay’s ancient NFL and NFC rivals the Philadelphia Eagles did them a solid.
"I'm not sad, let's just put it that way," Pro Football Hall of Fame member Dave Robinson, a former Green Bay linebacker, wryly told NBC News on Monday as his Packers' place in history stayed undisturbed.
Jerry Kramer, right, carries Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lombardi the field after the Packers defeated the Oakland Raiders 33-14 in Super Bowl 2 in Miami on Jan. 14, 1968. AP fileRobinson, 83, played on the mid-1960s Green Bay teams that won the final NFL title before the Super Bowl era, then Super Bowls 1 and 2.
Before it won the first two Super Bowls, Green Bay won the last pre-Super Bowl NFL title, defeating Jim Brown and the Cleveland Browns on Jan. 2, 1966. That was the final NFL title before the inaugural "AFL-NFL Championship Game," as the Super Bowl was humbly known, came into being on Jan. 15, 1967, in Los Angeles.
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