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Packers have storied history with Rams
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Rams linebacker Tommy Polley scores on a 34-yard return of a Brett Favre interception in a NFC divisional playoff game on Jan. 20, 2002. Favre had six interceptions in the Packers’ 45-17 loss.
The Green Bay Packers have won the last four contests with the St. Louis Rams dating back to December 2007.
The Packers trail in the all-time regular-season series, 44-45-2, with both teams winning one playoff game.
This week Packer Plus reviews the top games in the Packers-Rams series, which began in 1937 with a 35-10 Green Bay victory in Cleveland. The Rams franchise was located in Los Angeles prior to 1995 and in Cleveland prior to 1946.
The Packers avenged a 27-24 loss to the Rams on Oct. 1 to claim their eighth victory of the season on the road at Cleveland Municipal Stadium.
The game was scoreless into the third quarter, when the Rams took a 6-0 lead on an 18-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Parker Hall to end Jim Benton. In the final quarter, quarterback Cecil Isbell hit Joe Laws with an 18-yard scoring aerial and lineman Tiny Engebretsen kicked the winning PAT.
Green Bay finished 9-2 and in first place in the NFL's Western Conference. The Packers went on to win their fifth league championship with a 27-0 thrashing of the New York Giants in Milwaukee on Dec. 10.
Kicker Fred Cone started and ended the scoring for the Packers, booting the game-winning, 25-yard field goal in the fourth quarter.
Cone kicked three field goals and three extra points in the wild contest, which saw the Rams rally from a 24-7 deficit.
Los Angeles took a 28-27 lead on Jim Cason's 25-yard interception return late in final quarter until Cone kicked the game winner before 26,960 delirious fans at Milwaukee County Stadium.
Don Majkowski and the "Cardiac Pack" ran out of magic in this contest in the memorable 1989 season, when Green Bay pulled out several improbable victories in winning seven games by four points or less in a 10-6 campaign.
A rout was in the making as quarterback Jim Everett led the Rams to a seemingly comfortable 38-7 lead at halftime. But any fans who left Anaheim Stadium early missed a valiant Packers comeback led by Majkowski with two touchdown passes and running back Brent Fullwood with two rushing touchdowns.
In the end, the reeling Rams got a 45-yard field midway through the fourth quarter to lead 41-31 before Fullwood's 1-yard touchdown run closed out the scoring and Los Angeles escaped with the victory.
This contest was a memorable one, but for all the wrong reasons from a Green Bay perspective.
The Packers committed eight turnovers in the largest playoff defeat in franchise history. St. Louis and its high-powered offense, led by quarterback Kurt Warner, turned the miscues into 35 points in the 2001 NFC divisional playoff at the Dome at America's Center.
Quarterback Brett Favre tied a dubious NFL record and set a team mark with six interceptions in the playoff game, which was tied 7-7 after one quarter.
Aeneas Williams raced 29 yards with the first Favre pick for a 7-0 Rams lead, but Favre redeemed himself with a 22-yard touchdown strike to Antonio Freeman.
From then on it was all St. Louis as the Rams built a 24-10 cushion by intermission and led, 38-10, after three quarters. St. Louis' last two touchdowns were scored on interception returns of 34 and 32 yards before Green Bay ended the scoring with Favre's 8-yard touchdown pass to Freeman.
The Packers were their own worst enemy, negating a 95-yard kickoff return for a touchdown in the second quarter with a penalty. In the disappointing loss, the Green Bay defense held the "Greatest Show on Turf" offense to its lowest yardage total in 21 games and just 13 first downs.
In one of the most memorable games at County Stadium, the Packers rallied from a 7-0 first quarter deficit to dominate the Western Conference Championship game that paved the way to the Ice Bowl and Super Bowl II victories.
Green Bay lost to Los Angeles, 27-24, two weeks earlier, but won when it mattered most in the first-ever regularly scheduled NFL conference playoff contest.
Running back Travis Williams was the offensive hero for the Packers, scoring two touchdowns to complement a swarming defense that sacked Rams quarterback Roman Gabriel five times.
Gabriel tossed a 29-yard touchdown pass to Bernie Casey in the first quarter, but Green Bay tallied 28 unanswered points. The onslaught began with Williams' 46-yard burst and continued in the second quarter with Bart Starr's 17-yard scoring pass to receiver Carroll Dale, who torched the Rams' secondary with six receptions for 109 yards.
Green Bay scored touchdowns on the ground in each of the final two quarters to secure a berth in the NFL Championship Game against Dallas.
Starr, who would score the winning quarterback sneak a week later in the famed Ice Bowl, completed 17 of 23 passes for 222 yards in an efficient performance.
The Packers trail in the all-time regular-season series, 44-45-2, with both teams winning one playoff game.
This week Packer Plus reviews the top games in the Packers-Rams series, which began in 1937 with a 35-10 Green Bay victory in Cleveland. The Rams franchise was located in Los Angeles prior to 1995 and in Cleveland prior to 1946.
GREEN BAY PACKERS 7, CLEVELAND RAMS 6
Nov. 26, 1939, in ClevelandThe Packers avenged a 27-24 loss to the Rams on Oct. 1 to claim their eighth victory of the season on the road at Cleveland Municipal Stadium.
The game was scoreless into the third quarter, when the Rams took a 6-0 lead on an 18-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Parker Hall to end Jim Benton. In the final quarter, quarterback Cecil Isbell hit Joe Laws with an 18-yard scoring aerial and lineman Tiny Engebretsen kicked the winning PAT.
Green Bay finished 9-2 and in first place in the NFL's Western Conference. The Packers went on to win their fifth league championship with a 27-0 thrashing of the New York Giants in Milwaukee on Dec. 10.
GREEN BAY PACKERS 30, LOS ANGELES RAMS 28
Oct. 16, 1955, in MilwaukeeKicker Fred Cone started and ended the scoring for the Packers, booting the game-winning, 25-yard field goal in the fourth quarter.
Cone kicked three field goals and three extra points in the wild contest, which saw the Rams rally from a 24-7 deficit.
Los Angeles took a 28-27 lead on Jim Cason's 25-yard interception return late in final quarter until Cone kicked the game winner before 26,960 delirious fans at Milwaukee County Stadium.
LOS ANGELES RAMS 41, GREEN BAY PACKERS 38
Sept. 24, 1989, in Los AngelesDon Majkowski and the "Cardiac Pack" ran out of magic in this contest in the memorable 1989 season, when Green Bay pulled out several improbable victories in winning seven games by four points or less in a 10-6 campaign.
A rout was in the making as quarterback Jim Everett led the Rams to a seemingly comfortable 38-7 lead at halftime. But any fans who left Anaheim Stadium early missed a valiant Packers comeback led by Majkowski with two touchdown passes and running back Brent Fullwood with two rushing touchdowns.
In the end, the reeling Rams got a 45-yard field midway through the fourth quarter to lead 41-31 before Fullwood's 1-yard touchdown run closed out the scoring and Los Angeles escaped with the victory.
ST. LOUIS RAMS 45, GREEN BAY PACKERS 17
Jan. 20, 2002, in St. LouisThis contest was a memorable one, but for all the wrong reasons from a Green Bay perspective.
The Packers committed eight turnovers in the largest playoff defeat in franchise history. St. Louis and its high-powered offense, led by quarterback Kurt Warner, turned the miscues into 35 points in the 2001 NFC divisional playoff at the Dome at America's Center.
Quarterback Brett Favre tied a dubious NFL record and set a team mark with six interceptions in the playoff game, which was tied 7-7 after one quarter.
Aeneas Williams raced 29 yards with the first Favre pick for a 7-0 Rams lead, but Favre redeemed himself with a 22-yard touchdown strike to Antonio Freeman.
From then on it was all St. Louis as the Rams built a 24-10 cushion by intermission and led, 38-10, after three quarters. St. Louis' last two touchdowns were scored on interception returns of 34 and 32 yards before Green Bay ended the scoring with Favre's 8-yard touchdown pass to Freeman.
The Packers were their own worst enemy, negating a 95-yard kickoff return for a touchdown in the second quarter with a penalty. In the disappointing loss, the Green Bay defense held the "Greatest Show on Turf" offense to its lowest yardage total in 21 games and just 13 first downs.
GREEN BAY PACKERS 28, LOS ANGELES RAMS 7
Dec. 23, 1967, in MilwaukeeIn one of the most memorable games at County Stadium, the Packers rallied from a 7-0 first quarter deficit to dominate the Western Conference Championship game that paved the way to the Ice Bowl and Super Bowl II victories.
Green Bay lost to Los Angeles, 27-24, two weeks earlier, but won when it mattered most in the first-ever regularly scheduled NFL conference playoff contest.
Running back Travis Williams was the offensive hero for the Packers, scoring two touchdowns to complement a swarming defense that sacked Rams quarterback Roman Gabriel five times.
Gabriel tossed a 29-yard touchdown pass to Bernie Casey in the first quarter, but Green Bay tallied 28 unanswered points. The onslaught began with Williams' 46-yard burst and continued in the second quarter with Bart Starr's 17-yard scoring pass to receiver Carroll Dale, who torched the Rams' secondary with six receptions for 109 yards.
Green Bay scored touchdowns on the ground in each of the final two quarters to secure a berth in the NFL Championship Game against Dallas.
Starr, who would score the winning quarterback sneak a week later in the famed Ice Bowl, completed 17 of 23 passes for 222 yards in an efficient performance.
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