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<blockquote data-quote="TJV" data-source="post: 410394" data-attributes="member: 4300"><p><span style="color: #141414"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">To expand on what Pappa San said I think it’s certainly possible the Packers will be the team of this decade but to eclipse the Lombardi Packers would mean more than a three-peat as extraordinarily difficult as that would be. They would have to win four more championships over these seasons to match Lombardi’s 5 titles in 7 years:</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #141414"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">2011:</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #141414"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">2012:</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #141414"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">2013:</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #141414"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">2014:</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #141414"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">2015:</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #141414"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">2016:</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="color: #000000">Win it all in all but two of those seasons. <em>That’s</em> how dominant the Lombardi Packers were. </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="color: #000000">Even if they do, by the end of 2016 season, Thompson will have been the GM for 12 years and McCarthy HC for 11, so technically they wouldn’t have matched Lombardi’s success of 5 titles in 9 years as HC or his 10 years as GM. Don’t get me wrong, if they come close I WON’T CARE about comparisons to Lombardi!</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="color: #000000">If the Packers win just one more championship under Thompson/McCarthy, Thompson will have eclipsed Wolf and McCarthy will have eclipsed Holmgren in Packers’ lore. Go back to Thompson’s hiring or McCarthy’s and consider your expectations <em>then</em>. </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="color: #000000">In a recent Packer Plus article, Reischel writes that with this incredible winning streak, McCarthy’s Packers are winning road games, including playoffs, at a .600 pace. That’s better than Lambeau’s .563 and Holmgren’s .469. But McCarthy’s teams have a ways to go to match Vince Lombardi’s .711 road winning percentage. No, it will be nearly impossible to match Lombardi’s record of titles. And Thompson/McCarthy don’t even have to come close to become immortalized in Packers’ – and NFL - history! </span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TJV, post: 410394, member: 4300"] [COLOR=#141414][FONT=Tahoma]To expand on what Pappa San said I think it’s certainly possible the Packers will be the team of this decade but to eclipse the Lombardi Packers would mean more than a three-peat as extraordinarily difficult as that would be. They would have to win four more championships over these seasons to match Lombardi’s 5 titles in 7 years:[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#141414][FONT=Tahoma] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#141414][FONT=Tahoma]2011:[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#141414][FONT=Tahoma]2012:[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#141414][FONT=Tahoma]2013:[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#141414][FONT=Tahoma]2014:[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#141414][FONT=Tahoma]2015:[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#141414][FONT=Tahoma]2016:[/FONT][/COLOR] [FONT=Tahoma][COLOR=#000000] [/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Tahoma][COLOR=#000000]Win it all in all but two of those seasons. [I]That’s[/I] how dominant the Lombardi Packers were. [/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Tahoma][COLOR=#000000] [/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Tahoma][COLOR=#000000]Even if they do, by the end of 2016 season, Thompson will have been the GM for 12 years and McCarthy HC for 11, so technically they wouldn’t have matched Lombardi’s success of 5 titles in 9 years as HC or his 10 years as GM. Don’t get me wrong, if they come close I WON’T CARE about comparisons to Lombardi![/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Tahoma][COLOR=#000000] [/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Tahoma][COLOR=#000000]If the Packers win just one more championship under Thompson/McCarthy, Thompson will have eclipsed Wolf and McCarthy will have eclipsed Holmgren in Packers’ lore. Go back to Thompson’s hiring or McCarthy’s and consider your expectations [I]then[/I]. [/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Tahoma][COLOR=#000000] [/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Tahoma][COLOR=#000000]In a recent Packer Plus article, Reischel writes that with this incredible winning streak, McCarthy’s Packers are winning road games, including playoffs, at a .600 pace. That’s better than Lambeau’s .563 and Holmgren’s .469. But McCarthy’s teams have a ways to go to match Vince Lombardi’s .711 road winning percentage. No, it will be nearly impossible to match Lombardi’s record of titles. And Thompson/McCarthy don’t even have to come close to become immortalized in Packers’ – and NFL - history! [/COLOR][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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