So....What Team has More Championships?

[CM Hooe]

How much do past championships matter, really? I mean, the Packers just beat the Steelers, they're the best team in the league this year.

I mean, Cowboys' fans get told with some frequency that their past five Super Bowl titles don't matter any more. A different situation, perhaps, but to fall back after losing the Super Bowl onto a "yeah but we're still a better franchise throughout history" argument seems to be sour grapes to me.

[TheWatcher]

A lot of fans (and even players, as has been demonstrated many times) don't know or care about the history of the game, and only hold the recent history they know of as being relevant. So with that goes the championships of the past as well.

[Perfect Zero]

Even as a Cowboys fan I'd say that Green Bay deserves credit for the championships that they've won. If anybody watches really old football (heck, even the Greatest Game Ever Played), you'll get an appreciation for what the game was like back then.

I'd say watch the Rugby Sevens tournament on NBC today and see how hard they hit and play the game. That's what football kinda was like back in the day. The Champions from the 1920's deserve as much credit as the Packers of today.

[ImTellinTim]

My opinion? **** the Packers.

/Bitter Bears fan

[lonewolf371]

I think they all count.

[raz77]

To be fair as far as perception goes, people cared far less about these championships on the days they were won than they do now. The main reason they have any importance is because of what the NFL eventually became.

[Other Guy]

I count 'em all. It seems like the start of the Super Bowls sort of reset the championships in most people's minds. You can't discredit a team's titles just because things change. We still count World Series titles dating back to 100 plus years when the game was totally different and there were far fewer teams. Nobody discredits the Celtics' 8 straight championships, but there were only 8 teams in the NBA at that time. (10 teams by the last season.)

All any team can do is win in it's current situation. I wouldn't want people 50 years from now trying to discredit our current day championships. Things may be way different then, but it shouldn't diminish these current day accomplishments.

[TripleCrown9]

People will of course have a different view. But when it comes down to it, the beloved Green Bay Packers are in the NFL record book for Most NFL Championships. Period. It doesn't say pre-merger/post-merger or anything like that. Steeler fans may hate it, but they are 5th on the list behind Green Bay, Chicago, Cleveland (WTF! I kid), and the Giants. So naturally they only claim the Super Bowls, in which they are indeed first place. So they both have the most championships.