The Green Bay Packers record book is full of all-time great players from Don Hutson to Paul Hornung, Bart Starr, Brett Favre, and Aaron Rodgers. The Packers are one of the most celebrated franchises in NFL history and have won more championships than any other franchise. Those players have also set club records that will be very tough to beat for a long time if ever. Here is a look at eight Packers franchise records that are nearly impossible to break:

Packers Records That Will Be Nearly Impossible to Break, Number Eight: Most Seasons, Head Coach: Curly Lambeau 31 Years (1919-49)

Curly Lambeau was the co-founder of the Packers franchise, and he coached the team for 31 seasons. To put that in perspective, if his last season as coach was 2024, he would have started coaching the Packers back in 1994 when Favre was still a young and up and coming quarterback.

Because he coached so long ago, Lambeau doesn’t get all the credit he deserves. No Packers coach has won more championships than Lambeau, not even the great Vince Lombardi. Lambeau led the Packers to NFL titles in 1929, 1930, 1931, 1936, 1939 and 1944.

Another record Lambeau holds is the most wins by a Packers coach (209) and the most losses by a Packers coach (104).

In the modern-day NFL, coaches simply don’t last 31 years with one team. Even Bill Belichick, the most successful modern NFL coach, “only” lasted 24 years with the Patriots.

Let’s just say Curly won’t be giving up this spot in the Packers record book any time soon.

Number Seven: Most Points in a Game: Paul Hornung 33, October 8, 1961, vs. Baltimore Colts

The days of position players doubling as kickers are long over and that helps make this record tough to beat.

“The Golden Boy” was outstanding in Green Bay’s 45-7 win over the Baltimore Colts at what was then called City Stadium in Green Bay. Hornung rushed for 111 yards on just 11 carries and ran for three touchdowns including a 54-yard run that opened the scoring in the first quarter. He also caught three passes for 28 yards and another score for four touchdowns on the day.

But because Hornung also doubled as the Packers kicker, he booted six extra points and a 38-yard field goal. That gave him 33 points in a single game.

By contrast, Chester Marcol led the Packers in total points with 50 for the entire season in 1977.

A kicker would have to kick 11 field goals in one game to tie this record or a position player would have to score six touchdowns in a game to break it (or five touchdowns and a pair of two-point conversions).

Even in today’s offense-minded NFL, that’s a record that would be tough to beat.

Packers Records That Will Be Nearly Impossible to Break, Number Six: Most Seasons Leading the League in Receiving Yards, Don Hutson, 7

Hutson played 11 seasons in the NFL and led the league in receiving yards seven times including four years in a row from 1941-44.

This record is nearly impossible to break for several reasons. First, in this era of the salary cap and free agency, fewer players remain with one team for seven straight years. There are also more players and more teams presently than in Hutson’s day, which makes this a much more difficult feat in 2024 than it was in the 1940s.

The present-day Packers don’t have a clear-cut number one receiver who would lead the team in receiving yards seven years in a row, let alone leading the league in that category.

Hutson holds another seemingly unbreakable record, leading the league in touchdown catches nine times in his career.

Hutson’s marks won’t be broken any time soon, if ever.

Number Five: Most Rushing Attempts in a Season: Ahman Green 355 in 2003

This record is safe for now because few NFL teams use a workhorse back anymore. The days of Earl Campbell, John Riggins or Eric Dickerson carrying the ball 20-plus times per game to grind out wins are long gone. Even those NFL teams that emphasize running the football are careful to spell their starting running backs and give then a few series off to keep them fresh.

During the 2003 season, Ahman Green averaged nearly 22.2 attempts per game and stayed healthy for all 16 games. By contrast, the next highest number of attempts that season was Najeh Davenport, who had 77 carries for the season or slightly less than five carries per game.

Josh Jacobs has the potential to be a workhorse back and the Packers play one more game per season than they did in 2003. But Jacobs would have to average nearly 21 rushes per game to tie this mark. Head coach Matt LaFleur rarely gives the ball to one back that often and prefers to rotate his backs.

NFL teams are not running the ball as often as they did 15-20 years ago and they’re spreading out the carries between two or three runners. Green’s record seems safe until the league returns to running the ball more frequently and using a feature back to do it.

Packers Records That Will Be Nearly Impossible to Break, Number Four: Most Blocked Kicks in a Season, Ted Hendricks, 7 in 1974

Hall of Fame linebacker Ted Hendricks played one season for the Packers back in 1974 before he joined the Oakland Raiders.

Hendricks had an All-Pro season with the Packers, making 75 tackles, two sacks, a safety and five interceptions.

But the 6’7”, 220-pound future Hall of Famer had another skill that helped him set an NFL record that will be tough to beat: he blocked seven kicks for the Packers in 14 games. The breakdown was three field goals, three punts and one extra point.

Since then, the rules have changed, and players are restricted in how they can jump to block field goals and extra points.

Hendricks record has lasted for nearly 50 seasons and it’s not likely to be beaten any time soon.

Number Three: Most Career Interceptions: Brett Favre 286

Favre is a deserving Hall of Famer and one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time. But along with his gunslinger mentality came plenty of interceptions. In his 16 seasons with the Packers, Favre threw 286 interceptions or an average of nearly 18 per season.

Jordan Love threw 11 interceptions last season, his first as the Packers starter. At that rate, it would take Love 26 seasons to tie Favre’s record.

Any player who breaks Favre’s franchise record would have to play an extremely long time at a high enough level to overcome that large number of mistakes. That’s not an easy thing to do. Throwing that many interceptions is a good way for a quarterback to lose their job.

Packers Records That Will Be Nearly Impossible to Break, Number Two: Most Consecutive Games with a TD Pass, Brett Favre with 36

Favre threw a touchdown pass in 36 consecutive games for the Packers between 2002 and 2004, that’s more than two complete seasons with at least one touchdown pass in a game.

Love currently has a 12-game streak. He threw at least one touchdown pass in 16 of the team’s 17 games last year. The only game he failed to throw a TD pass came in Week 5 against the Raiders.

To break this record, Love will have to remain the Packers starting quarterback for the next 24 games without missing one and throw at least one touchdown pass per game. That is unlikely to say the least.

Number One: Most Games Four or More Touchdown Passes, Career: Aaron Rodgers 33

Rodgers threw four or more touchdown passes in a game 33 times with the Packers. By comparison, Love finished second in the NFL in touchdown passes last season but never threw more than three touchdown passes in a game.

Love or any future quarterback would have to play at a very high level for the Packers for a long time to reach this record.

 

 

 

 

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