Tapp-ing into the Numbers: 40 Packers Stats Until Opening Kickoff (No. 19)
Can you name the two teams that the Packers have not defeated in the regular season since 2000? If you answered Cincinnati and Pittsburgh, you are correct.
Green Bay is 0-3 in the regular season versus both the Bengals and Steelers since 2000. The Pack did, however, beat the Steelers 31-25 in Super Bowl XLV on February 6, 2011.
The Pack will get a chance in 2017 to get in the victory column versus these two teams this century. The Packers will host Cincinnati September 24 and then travel to Pittsburgh for a November 26 contest.
The Packers are 19-15 all-time versus the Steelers. Against the Bengals, on the other hand, Green Bay has a losing record … the Pack is 5-7. In fact, the Bengals are one of seven current franchises in which the Packers have a losing record in regular season contests in team history. The seven: Buffalo, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Miami, New York Jets and Tennessee.
Jerry Tapp
Jerry Tapp is a freelance writer from Racine, WI with a major concentration on sports statistics and numbers that define sports teams and players. He began his foray into sports stats-focused writing as a regular contributor to the “Numbers” column in Inside Sports magazine in the mid-1980’s and then began writing a weekly “Stats on Tapp” column for the Racine Journal Times. That column was eventually nationally syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate. He later wrote sports stats items for the Washington Post under the “Stat of the Day” heading. After launching his blog, www.statsontapp.com in 2011, Jerry turned his sports stats attention to sports websites. He wrote regularly for Bleacher Report, BallHyped, football.com and Heavy.com. Today he keeps busy writing weekly columns of stats-centric articles for three sports websites, Today’s Pigskin (NFL), Today’s Knuckleball (MLB) and Today’s Fastbreak (NBA), and as a monthly contributor to the Milwaukee Brewers “GameDay” publication that is distributed to fans attending games at Miller Park.