According to Ron Wolf, the Green Bay Packers Super Bowl XXXI victory over the New England Patriots was anticlimactic. The Pro Football Hall of Fame General Manager of the Packers built that championship team but he’s long maintained the most significant victory of his tenure was the one that came two weeks prior.
The Pack’s 30-13 win over the upstart Carolina Panthers in the 1996 NFC Championship Game takes the cake. To have that conference title game played at frigid Lambeau Field, and so dominated by the home team, to Wolf, it signified what he was told couldn’t be done, could be, turn Green Bay into a champion once again.