Packers–Seahawks rivalry
A conference rivalry defined by playoff games, from 'We want the ball' to the 2014 NFC title comeback.
The Packers–Seahawks rivalry is the NFL rivalry between the Green Bay Packers and the Seattle Seahawks. The teams first played in 1976, Seattle's first season, a 27–20 Packers win at Milwaukee County Stadium, but met only now and then until the Seahawks moved to the NFC in 2002, which put the two clubs in the same conference.
Quick Facts
- Location
- Green Bay, Seattle
- First meeting
- October 10
- 1976; Packers 27
- Seahawks 20
- Latest meeting
- December 15
- 2024; Packers 30
- Seahawks 13
- Stadiums
- Packers: Lambeau Field; Seahawks: Lumen Field
- Total meetings
- 25
- Regular season
- Packers: 13–8
- Postseason
- Packers: 3–1
- Largest victory
- Packers: 48–10 (2009); Seahawks: 27–7 (1999), 36–16 (2014)
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Background
Their first playoff meeting, after the 2003 season, went to overtime: Matt Hasselbeck won the coin toss and told the referee's microphone that Seattle wanted the ball and would score, but Green Bay won 33–27. Both clubs stayed strong through the 2000s and 2010s, the Packers winning Super Bowl XLV and the Seahawks Super Bowl XLVIII, behind quarterbacks Brett Favre and Aaron Rodgers on one side and Hasselbeck and Russell Wilson on the other. The teams met three more times in the playoffs in that era, Green Bay winning two; Seattle's only postseason win in the series is the 2014 NFC Championship Game, won after a late comeback.
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