1966 Green Bay Packers season
| 1966 Green Bay Packers season | |
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| Head coach | Vince Lombardi |
| General manager | Vince Lombardi |
| Home field |
Lambeau Field Milwaukee County Stadium |
| Results | |
| Record | 12–2 |
| Division place | 1st NFL Western |
| Playoff finish |
Won NFL Championship (Cowboys, 34–27) Won Super Bowl I (Chiefs, 35–10) |
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| Scoring summary | ||||
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| Q2 | BAL | Michaels 26 yard field goal | BAL 3–0 | |
| Q2 | GB | Caffey 52 yard interception return (Chandler kick) | GB 7–3 | |
| Q2 | GB | Jeter 46 yard interception return (Chandler kick) | GB 14–3 | |
| Q3 | GB | Starr 8 yard run (Chandler kick) | GB 21–3 | |
| Q3 | GB | Chandler 15 yard field goal | GB 24–3 | |
The 1966 Green Bay Packers season was their 47th in the National Football League. The defending NFL champions had a league-best regular season record of 12–2, led by eighth-year head coach Vince Lombardi and quarterback Bart Starr, in his eleventh NFL season.
The Packers beat the Dallas Cowboys in the NFL championship game, the Packers' second consecutive NFL title, fourth under Lombardi, and tenth for the franchise. Two weeks later, the Packers recorded a 35–10 victory over the Kansas City Chiefs in the inaugural AFL-NFL Championship Game, retroactively known as Super Bowl I.
Quarterback Starr was named the league's most valuable player (MVP) in 1966. Said Cold Hard Football Facts about Starr's 1966 season, "Starr, always underappreciated, was at his classic assassin-like best in 1966, his lone MVP season. He led the league in completion percentage, yards per attempt and passer rating, while his 4.7-to-1 [touchdown-to-interception] ratio remains one of the very best in history. Starr, as always, cranked out great performances when he absolutely had to: the 1966 Packers, for example, were the worst rushing team in football, with a meager average of 3.5 [yards-per-attempt] on the ground, despite the reputation Lombardi's Packers still carry with them today as a dominant running team."Cold Hard Football Facts also notes that 1966 Packers had the best passer rating differential (offensive passer rating minus opponents passer rating), +56.0, in the Super Bowl Era.
In 2007, the 1966 Packers were ranked as the 6th greatest Super Bowl champions on the NFL Network's documentary series America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions.
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