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The 49ers–Packers rivalry is an American football rivalry between the San Francisco 49ers and the Green Bay Packers.As the 49ers play in the NFC West, and the Packers play in the NFC North, both teams do not play every year; instead, they play once every three years and at least once every six seasons at each team's home stadium due to the NFL's rotating division schedules during which their ...
The game was the eighth playoff match-up between the 49ers and Packers, extending the two teams' rivalry. [19] The game was well known for the 49ers' overwhelmingly dominant rushing attack. [20] It evoked a previous playoff game between the 49ers and Packers, where the 49ers again blew out the Packers with a strong rushing attack.
NFC Championship Game logo, 2008–2010 (Used with old shield since 2005) The structure of the NFL playoffs has changed several times since 1970. At the end of each regular season, the top teams in the NFC qualify for the postseason, including all division champions (three division winners from the 1970–71 to 2001–02 seasons; four since the 2002–03 season) and a set number of "wild card ...
The rivalry between the Packers and the 49ers heated up during the 1990s, with the two teams facing each other in four consecutive playoff games. The Packers won four of five playoff games against the 49ers with Brett Favre as its quarterback, with four of those games pitting Favre against the 49ers' Hall of Fame quarterback Steve Young.
[4] [5] The San Francisco 49ers and New Orleans Saints also finished with 13–3 records; San Francisco beat the Packers and Saints in the regular season, giving them the first seed in the playoffs, while the Packers got the second seed over the Saints based on having a better conference record.
The rivalry between the Packers and the San Francisco 49ers ignited during the 1990s, with the two teams facing each other in four consecutive playoff games. The Packers won four of five playoff games against the 49ers with Brett Favre as its quarterback, with four of those games pitting Favre against the 49ers' Hall of Fame quarterback Steve ...
The Green Bay Packers, coming off a loss to the San Francisco 49ers in the 2019 NFC Championship Game, started their second season under head coach Matt LaFleur by winning their first four games. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] However, in Week 5, the Packers suffered their first defeat, 38–10, to the Buccaneers. [ 11 ]
Beginning with the 1933 season, the NFL featured a championship game, played between the winners of its two divisions.In this era, if there was a tie for first place in the division at the end of the regular season, a one-game playoff was used to determine the team that would represent their division in the NFL Championship Game.