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State suspends license of former Dallas Fire-Rescue paramedic seen kicking homeless man. Coach Mike Tomlin , already the youngest coach to ever win a Super Bowl, became the youngest coach ever to make it to the Super Bowl twice at age They are only the second 6 seeded team to reach the Super Bowl, with the only other 6 seed to accomplish this feat being the Pittsburgh Steelers , who won Super Bowl XL following the season.
Green Bay also joined the Steelers as the only teams ever to defeat the top three seeded teams on the road in the playoffs. The offense was led by quarterback Aaron Rodgers , who was in his third year as a starter after taking over for the team's all time leading passer Brett Favre.
Rodgers finished the season completing He was also a good rusher, adding yards and 4 touchdowns on the ground. His top target was pro bowl receiver Greg Jennings , who caught 76 passes for 1, yards and 12 touchdowns, giving him a Other reliable targets included receivers James Jones 50 receptions, yards, 5 tds , Donald Driver 51 receptions, yards, 4 tds , and Jordy Nelson 45 receptions, yards, kick return yards.
The Packers lost star tight end Jermichael Finley 21 receptions yards, 1 td to injury in week five who was their leading receiver at the time. The Packers ground game was crippled by injures, especially the Week 1 loss of Ryan Grant , who had rushed for over 1, yards in each of the last two years. In his absence, the team relied prominently on Brandon Jackson , who rushed for yards and caught 43 passes for , along with fullback John Kuhn , who added yards on the ground.
The team's offensive line was anchored by pro bowl tackle Chad Clifton , an year veteran. The Packers defense ranked second in the league in fewest points allowed per game The line was led by Cullen Jenkins , who recorded seven sacks in just eleven games, and pound defensive tackle B. Raji , who had 6. The linebackers were led by pro bowler Clay Matthews and A.
Matthews ranked fourth in the NFL with Three of the Packers starters in the secondary had made the pro bowl. Tramon Williams led the team with a career high 6 interceptions, while adding punt return yards. Other pro bowl selections included safety Nick Collins 4 interceptions and 70 combined tackles and hard hitting year veteran cornerback Charles Woodson , who recorded 92 total tackles and forced five fumbles, while also intercepting two passes.
The Packers entered the Super Bowl never having trailed by more than 7 points at any point during the season — a feat that had never been accomplished during a complete season in the Super Bowl era.
The last team to complete a season with this distinction was the Detroit Lions in Pittsburgh advanced to the Super Bowl with two close wins in the playoffs. After a first-round bye, the Steelers defeated their division rival, the 5 Baltimore Ravens 31—24, with Ben Roethlisberger 's yard completion to Antonio Brown on third down and 19 setting up Rashard Mendenhall 's game winning 2-yard touchdown run with left in the game.
Roethlisberger finished with passing yards and two touchdowns, while the defense forced three turnovers and sacked Baltimore QB Joe Flacco five times, three by James Harrison. Pittsburgh seemed to be in complete control at first, taking a 24—0 lead in the first half. New York quarterback Mark Sanchez rallied his team back, cutting the score to 24—10 going into the fourth quarter.
The Jets then drove to the Steelers 2-yard line on a play drive, but the Pittsburgh defense made a key stand, keeping them out of the end zone on four consecutive plays near the goal-line to force a turnover. New York subsequently forced a safety and scored a touchdown with just over three minutes left, but Roethlisberger's yard completions to Brown and Heath Miller allowed Pittsburgh to hang on to the ball until time expired.
Mendenhall finished with rushing yards and a touchdown, along with 2 catches for 32 yards. Green Bay started off their postseason with a 21—16 win over the 3 Philadelphia Eagles after Tramon Williams intercepted a pass from Michael Vick in the end zone with less than a minute left to play. Aaron Rodgers threw for yards and three touchdowns while James Starks , who only rushed for yards during the season, rushed for yards in the game.
The Packers then went to Georgia, where the top-seeded 13—3 Atlanta Falcons were waiting. Although the Falcons took advantage of an early turnover and a kick return touchdown to build a 14—7 lead, Green Bay quickly buried the Falcons with 35 straight points.
By the end of the first half, the Packers held a 28—14 lead, and went on to win comfortably, 48— Rodgers was nearly perfect, completing 31 of 36 passes for yards and three touchdowns, while adding another score on the ground.
Jordy Nelson and James Jones both had touchdown catches, while John Kuhn added scores by air and ground and Tramon Williams returned one of his two interceptions 70 yards for a touchdown. Green Bay's special teams unit never had to punt the ball, while Mason Crosby contributed two field goals. This time Rodgers had a rougher day than his previous two games, throwing no touchdown passes and being intercepted twice. But he still threw for yards and scored a 1-yard touchdown run, while Starks added 74 rushing yards, including a touchdown run in the second quarter.
Meanwhile, Green Bay's defense knocked Chicago quarterback Jay Cutler out of the game and intercepted three passes, one of which was returned 18 yards for a touchdown by B. The other two were made by rookie Sam Shields , who recorded his second interception near his own end zone with 37 seconds left to put the game away. In a post-game locker-room speech by Green Bay Packers corner Charles Woodson he poked fun at the President's comment saying "The President don't want to come watch us at the Super Bowl, guess what?
We're going to see him" implying that Green Bay would win the Super Bowl and visit the White House as the winning team does each year; a statement that would come true. Woodson then broke the Packers meeting with a team cheer of "White House! The first had Obama's name on the back with the number 1 and the second was an autographed Charles Woodson jersey with the message "See you at the White House.
Go Packers! Obama, who is also a Steelers fan and considers the team to be his second-favorite after the Bears, himself openly supported the Steelers two years earlier in Super Bowl XLIII after the Rooney family helped with his campaigning work and later appointed Steelers chairman Dan Rooney , an ethnic Irish Catholic, the U.
Ambassador to Ireland. Although the sitting president did not attend the game, former president and former Texas governor George W. Both teams are known to have sizable fanbases that often travel to away games, largely due to the home games themselves having decades-long waiting lists. As the Packers were the designated home team in the annual rotation between AFC and NFC teams, the team elected to wear their green jerseys.
Although both teams are known to wear their colored jerseys at home and have rarely worn white at home the Packers wore white at home for two games in , the Packers decision contrasted with the Steelers decision as the home team in Super Bowl XL to wear white jerseys. Both the Steelers and Packers were 6 seeded teams when they reached the Super Bowl, forcing them to play all of their postseason games on the road and wearing their respective white jerseys in those games.
The retractable roof at Cowboys Stadium was closed for the game. Approximately 15, temporary seats were added, but hours before kickoff, more than 1, seats were blocked off. About 1, furious fans were displaced because their seats were deemed unsafe -- fans were given somewhere else to sit and ended up without a view of the field. There was a class action lawsuit over the seat debacle and the fans were compensated in In the end, Cowboys Stadium failed to break the Super Bowl record.
They can't control the weather, and the NFL controls everything else. In the end the Packers defeated the Steelers , and many said Jerry World would host a Super Bowl within five to six years. Also for those of you counting, Texas Rangers pitchers and catchers report in six days. This Ad will close in 3. The browser you are using is no longer supported on this site. It is highly recommended that you use the latest versions of a supported browser in order to receive an optimal viewing experience.
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