The Packers returned to the NFL Championship game the following season and faced the New York Giants
in the first league title game to be played in Green Bay. The Packers
scored 24 second-quarter points, including a championship-record 19 by
Paul Hornung, on special "loan" from the Army
(one touchdown, four extra-points and three field goals), powering the
Packers to a 37–0 rout of the Giants, their first NFL Championship since
1944 It was in 1961 that Green Bay became known as "Titletown."
Monday, February 18, 2013
1961
The Packers returned to the NFL Championship game the following season and faced the New York Giants
in the first league title game to be played in Green Bay. The Packers
scored 24 second-quarter points, including a championship-record 19 by
Paul Hornung, on special "loan" from the Army
(one touchdown, four extra-points and three field goals), powering the
Packers to a 37–0 rout of the Giants, their first NFL Championship since
1944 It was in 1961 that Green Bay became known as "Titletown."
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