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With their playoff hopes hanging by a thread the Packers probably could not have wanted, historically-speaking, to be playing the Philadelphia Eagles this week. The Philly club has put the hurt on the Pack too many times in years past on occasions just like this one.
The Eagles were the only team ever to beat Vince Lombardi's Packers in a championship or playoff game.
No Packers' fan over 25 can ever forget "4th & 26" in the 2004 Wild Card playoff.
The dismal 1970's might have been a little less dismal if not for the Eagles derailing a couple of seemingly budding Packers playoff teams in 1974 and '78.
http://www.packershistory.net/1974PACKERS/GAME12.html
http://www.packershistory.net/1978PACKERS/GAME10.html
Recall how the vengeance mission went, after "4th & 26," the Packers went to Philly for a 2004 prime time regular season game. http://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/200412050phi.htm
They "schooled" the Packers again in Mike McCarthy's first go at them in 2006: http://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/200610020phi.htm
Hopes that the Packers might be turning around after their 10-6 "Majik" season in 1989 were snuffed out after a 1990 game with the Eagles. http://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/199012160phi.htm. Green Bay didn;t win again the rest of that year and only 4 times over the next 18 games, bringing down coach Lindy Infante.
In 1999 the two clubs essentially swapped head coaches. The Eagles hired Packers' assistant Andy Reid while Green Bay settled for just fired Philadelphia hc Ray Rhodes. Reid went on to an exceptionally successful career as one of the best in the league for 14 years there; taking his teams to the playoffs year after year, making 5 conference championship game appearances and a Super Bowl trip. Rhodes was a one year 8-8 experiment that failed and he never head coached in the NFL again.
Not that the Packers haven't gotten in their "licks" on the Philadelphia. In 1993 they lured the greatest Eagle Reggie White to Green Bay in free agency; one of the pivotal moves that ultimately issued in a Super Bowl Championship. http://blacksportsonline.com/home/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/reggie-white-eagles-kelly-green.jpg
The Packers won an improbable season opener against the Eagles in 2007 that started them on a 13-3 season and an NFC title game appearance. http://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/200709090gnb.htm
The Packers also won the 2010 opener at Lambeau over Philly http://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/201009120phi.htm and finally exorcised their postseason demons with the Eagles by beating them again in the Wild Card playoff en route to the Super Bowl XLV Championship.
In their last regular season meeting, only two years ago that seems much longer now, the Packers won in a laugher. http://www.philadelphiaeagles.com/n...rs-53-20/bf0ecc5b-4877-40b5-8064-2baf9bf039bc
Monday night's game will be the 41st regular season meeting between these two clubs, dating back to 1933. The Packers lead the all-time 26-14 while the Eagles are up 2-1 in playoff/championship games.
The Packers won their first 10 meetings in a row over Philadelphia in the days of Curly Lambeau. Since then Green Bay is only slightly ahead in the regular season count at 16-14.
Mike McCarthy is the only Packers' coach besides Lambeau to own a winning record over the Eagles, with 6 or more games, at 4-2. Mike Holmgren managed only to break even with them at 3-3. Mike Sherman 1-4. Vince Lombardi only faced them once after the 1960 championship game defeat: a 49-0 revenge in 1962.
http://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/game_query.cgi?tm1=gnb&tm2=phi&yr=all
With slender playoff hopes on the line Monday night we shouldn't be too comfortable. We have been here before with Philadelphia.
The Eagles were the only team ever to beat Vince Lombardi's Packers in a championship or playoff game.
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No Packers' fan over 25 can ever forget "4th & 26" in the 2004 Wild Card playoff.
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The dismal 1970's might have been a little less dismal if not for the Eagles derailing a couple of seemingly budding Packers playoff teams in 1974 and '78.
http://www.packershistory.net/1974PACKERS/GAME12.html
http://www.packershistory.net/1978PACKERS/GAME10.html
Recall how the vengeance mission went, after "4th & 26," the Packers went to Philly for a 2004 prime time regular season game. http://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/200412050phi.htm
They "schooled" the Packers again in Mike McCarthy's first go at them in 2006: http://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/200610020phi.htm
Hopes that the Packers might be turning around after their 10-6 "Majik" season in 1989 were snuffed out after a 1990 game with the Eagles. http://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/199012160phi.htm. Green Bay didn;t win again the rest of that year and only 4 times over the next 18 games, bringing down coach Lindy Infante.
In 1999 the two clubs essentially swapped head coaches. The Eagles hired Packers' assistant Andy Reid while Green Bay settled for just fired Philadelphia hc Ray Rhodes. Reid went on to an exceptionally successful career as one of the best in the league for 14 years there; taking his teams to the playoffs year after year, making 5 conference championship game appearances and a Super Bowl trip. Rhodes was a one year 8-8 experiment that failed and he never head coached in the NFL again.
Not that the Packers haven't gotten in their "licks" on the Philadelphia. In 1993 they lured the greatest Eagle Reggie White to Green Bay in free agency; one of the pivotal moves that ultimately issued in a Super Bowl Championship. http://blacksportsonline.com/home/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/reggie-white-eagles-kelly-green.jpg
The Packers won an improbable season opener against the Eagles in 2007 that started them on a 13-3 season and an NFC title game appearance. http://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/200709090gnb.htm
The Packers also won the 2010 opener at Lambeau over Philly http://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/201009120phi.htm and finally exorcised their postseason demons with the Eagles by beating them again in the Wild Card playoff en route to the Super Bowl XLV Championship.
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In their last regular season meeting, only two years ago that seems much longer now, the Packers won in a laugher. http://www.philadelphiaeagles.com/n...rs-53-20/bf0ecc5b-4877-40b5-8064-2baf9bf039bc
Monday night's game will be the 41st regular season meeting between these two clubs, dating back to 1933. The Packers lead the all-time 26-14 while the Eagles are up 2-1 in playoff/championship games.
The Packers won their first 10 meetings in a row over Philadelphia in the days of Curly Lambeau. Since then Green Bay is only slightly ahead in the regular season count at 16-14.
Mike McCarthy is the only Packers' coach besides Lambeau to own a winning record over the Eagles, with 6 or more games, at 4-2. Mike Holmgren managed only to break even with them at 3-3. Mike Sherman 1-4. Vince Lombardi only faced them once after the 1960 championship game defeat: a 49-0 revenge in 1962.
http://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/game_query.cgi?tm1=gnb&tm2=phi&yr=all
With slender playoff hopes on the line Monday night we shouldn't be too comfortable. We have been here before with Philadelphia.
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