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Cruse
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Cruse asked in SportsFootball (American) · 1 decade ago

Green Bay's 12 NFL Titles or Pittsburgh's 6 Super Bowl Titles?

Most of the hype leading up to this Super Bowl is talking about how the Pittsburgh Steelers have the most Super Bowl championships at 6 and they are looking for their record 7th Vincent T. Lombardi trophy. Why won't anyone acknowledge the fact that the Green Bay Packers have the most overall NFL Championships at 12 and they are looking for their record 13th? The Super Bowl has only been around since the 1966 season, the NFL has been around since 1920. The Pack has twice as many championships and people will only bring up the 3 Super Bowl titles. In my opinion, that's an insult to the NFL's history from 1920-1965. Another example is my favorite team, the Chicago Bears. They are the 2nd most successful team in the league with 9 NFL championships. However, if the Bears would've made it to the Super Bowl, only the 1985 Super Bowl championship season would've been acknowledged. That doesn't sound very successful to young fans who don't know of the league's history.

I guess the real question is: Who do you consider the most decorated team in the NFL? Packers or Steelers?

BQ: Why do you think no one acknowledges the overall NFL championships instead of just Super Bowl victories?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    The biggest reason is quite honestly most people don't pay attention to any championships before the Super Bowl. The Super Bowl and the merger was a huge change in the NFL, so to some extent this is understandable. I do think people should acknowledge championships in the pre-Super Bowl era more often. The way it is now it's almost as if the league didn't exist before 1966.

    As for which team is better, I'd say the Packers overall. The Steelers have been around long enough I think they can be legitimately compared, as the Steelers didn't come along with the merger (it's a bit unfair to compare, say, the Dolphins or Colts to the Packers when they didn't come along until later). Because of that, I think the pre-Super Bowl championships are fair game in this comparison.

    Three of the Packers' championships came before the Steelers were founded. That still leaves the score 9-6.

    I do think the fact the Steelers are going for their 7th Super Bowl win is a big and legitimate news story though. Super Bowl championships are significantly different from NFL championships in the days before the Super Bowl, and that is impossible to ignore.

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

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  • jjc927
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    NFL championships and the Super Bowl are seperate entities. NFL championships are rarely if ever acknowledged because very few people in the current generation are familar with them, so only Super Bowl victories are accounted for. The Packers winning 9 NFL championships from 1920-1965 is quite impressive and beats the Steelers 6 Super Bowls in 44 years, but remember that the NFL during that time had a lot less teams and it was a completely seperate thing from what was known as the AFL. The NFL as we know it today did not begin until 1970 when these two leagues merged.

    As for the Bears, most would know that their Super Bowl winning team had one of, if not, the greatest defense of any team in the history of the NFL. Because of that and their fandom and lore being one of the most loyal in football, they are considered a successful franchise.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Chicago Bears

    National Football League championships a total of (9) ill break it down..

    NFL Championships (8)

    1921, 1932, 1933, 1940, 1941, 1943, 1946, 1963

    Super Bowl Championships (1)

    1985 Super Bowl (XX)

    DA BEARS...

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    People do call the Packers the greatest franchise in the NFL history so I don't know why are you complaining?

    Plus they won most of them before the modern era of football. And its 10 times harder to win a superbowl than a championship. There was only like 10 team back then in the NFL now there is 32.

    You do the math.

    And there was the NFL and AFL so yeah two different leagues.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I agree it is insulting to NFL history just because they change the name of the championship and give out a shiny new trophy doesn't mean the previous history doesn't count. I consider the Packers the most decorated team and I always have. I have no idea why people only recognize Super Bowls. It is stupid in my eyes.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    a major reason is because the game and the league has changed so much since the 40s... the modern game really didn't start until the late 50s and then that was close to the merger, which is much more like the modern league now...

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