Here is a look at your Green Bay Packers… as they were 70 years ago. The 1941 Green Bay Packers competed in their 21st season in the National Football League. The club posted a 10-1 record under coach Curly Lambeau, earning a tie for first place in the Western Conference with the Chicago Bears. One week after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the Packers and Bears played a one-game playoff in Chicago to determine who would play in the N.F.L. Championship Game. The Packers lost 33-14, in the first post-season game ever played between the archrivals. The second post-season game came 70 years later, in the N.F.C. Conference Championship game on January 22, 2011. We all know the outcome of that game, eh?
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
70 Years Ago
Here is a look at your Green Bay Packers… as they were 70 years ago. The 1941 Green Bay Packers competed in their 21st season in the National Football League. The club posted a 10-1 record under coach Curly Lambeau, earning a tie for first place in the Western Conference with the Chicago Bears. One week after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the Packers and Bears played a one-game playoff in Chicago to determine who would play in the N.F.L. Championship Game. The Packers lost 33-14, in the first post-season game ever played between the archrivals. The second post-season game came 70 years later, in the N.F.C. Conference Championship game on January 22, 2011. We all know the outcome of that game, eh?