A title-winning Packers coach has faced former team twice before

Mike McCarthy is third of franchise’s championship coaches to battle against Green Bay, following Curly Lambeau and Mike Holmgren

GREEN BAY – As Mike McCarthy makes his return to Lambeau Field on Sunday as coach of the Dallas Cowboys, it's worth detailing the history of such an occasion.

The Packers have had four championship-winning coaches – Curly Lambeau (six titles), Vince Lombardi (five), Mike Holmgren (one) and McCarthy (one) – and McCarthy is now the third of those four to face Green Bay as the leader of another franchise.

Lombardi is the only one who didn't. After his fifth championship (Super Bowl II), he resigned and continued as Packers general manager for one season.

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