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Promising surge for Packers beats Bears, clinches division.(Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
GREEN BAY, Wis. _ Parallels between the Super Bowl-winning Green Bay Packers of 1996 and this year's edition continue to be amazingly similar, to say the least.
Six years ago, coach Mike Holmgren's phlegmatic Packers were looking at a 9-3 halftime deficit in St. Louis after watching their record dip to 8-3 with two consecutive losses. On Sunday, coach Mike Sherman's flat Packers found themselves trailing the inspired Chicago Bears, 14-6, at intermission as they tried to rebound from consecutive losses that also dropped them to 8-3.
As a 9 {-point favorite in each game, the Packers felt enormous pressure to right what was starting to smell like a sinking ship.
We all know what happened in '96. The Packers put a 21-0 haymaker on the Rams in the second half to win going away at the Trans World Dome, then caught fire and didn't lose again before accepting the Lombardi Trophy in New Orleans.
We don't know what's in store for the 2002 club but the 24-6 punch that the Packers laid on the archrival Bears in the second half resulted in a 30-20 victory at Lambeau Field and maybe, just maybe, ...
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- Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel GARY D'AMATO November 17, 1996 700+ words
Since the Green Bay Packers' seven-game losing...all the changes Green Bay made, the scores...indicate that the Packers have not significantly...Still, the Packers (8-2) go into...Dallas' excellence. Green Bay goes into the game...
- The Green Bay Packers, Inc.
- Reference information from: International Directory of Company Histories January 1, 2000 700+ words
The Green Bay Packers, Inc. 1265 Lombard! Avenue Green...711211 Sports Teams and Clubs The Green Bay Packers, Inc. is a nonprofit corporation...playing in its original small town. Green Bay Packers, Inc. has roughly 100,000 shareholders...
- PACKERS BACKERS ARE NO SLACKERS FROM BIRTH TO DEATH, DEVOTION TO FOOTBALL TEAM...
- Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) Ryckman, Lisa Levitt January 18, 1998 700+ words
...assured that their Packers will never leave...can't happen in Green Bay,'' said John Carpentier, owner of Packer City Antiques, the world's only Packers historical-memorabilia...s why people from Green Bay are Packers fans...
- PACKERS SPURRED ON BY COWBOYS GREEN BAY LEARNED KNOCKOUT STRATEGY.(Sports)
- Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) Adams, Sam January 14, 1997 700+ words
...Mountain News Staff Writer GREEN BAY, Wis. -- Thank the...Cowboys for giving the Green Bay Packers a championship mentality...its 13 points off two Packers turnovers. Otherwise...seems rather simple: Green Bay's defense gets the...
- Trips to Vikings' house of horrors are chilling Packers haunted by hex Luck...
- Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel CHARLES F. GARDNER September 17, 1996 700+ words
...Just call it the Green Bay Packers' horror picture...seasons, when the Packers have lost three...a statistic the Green Bay coach has not forgotten...0 and tied with Green Bay for first place...enough to keep the Packers properly motivated...
- Bay watch; For a Minnesotan unsteeped in Packer lore, being in Green Bay as the...
- Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) Peterson, David February 3, 1997 700+ words
...Lambeau Field in Green Bay to cover the...celebration of the Packers' Super Bowl victory. 1. Green Bay, for a Minnesotan...upside down. Packer fans, whom...Local TV in Green Bay covers a woman...extolling the Packers and joking with Packer fans - and...
- PACKERS ROLLED IN LAST MATCHUP LATE IN THE '96 SEASON, WITH ELWAY SIDELINED,...
- Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) Pearce, Alan January 25, 1998 700+ words
...without John Elway the last time they played the Green Bay Packers. Green Bay scored a resounding 41-6 victory at Lambeau Field...the other meetings between the Denver Broncos and Green Bay Packers, who meet today in Super Bowl XXXII: Sept. 26...
- Green Bay scores even if you're not a Packers fan.(Going Places)
- Newspaper article from: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL) October 13, 2002 700+ words
...of one of the founders of the Green Bay Packers and of the stadium where they...and unable to snare tickets to a Packers game at Lambeau Field, you can...sports team with a visit to the Green Bay Packer Hall of Fame. There, you can...
