Tapp-ing into the Numbers: 40 Packers Stats Until Opening Kickoff (No. 29)
By JERRY TAPP
Last season a pair of teams, the Dallas Cowboys and Indianapolis Colts, came into Lambeau Field and defeated the Packers on their home field. For Dallas, it was their first win in Lambeau since 2008, while the Colts had not won on the Packers’ home turf since 1988.
Here’s a look at the last time (the year) each of the other 31 NFL franchises defeated the Packers in Green Bay:
Never: Baltimore, Denver (they did play a tie game in Green Bay)
1949: Arizona (then Chicago Cardinals)
1984: San Diego (this is the only loss the Packers have to the Chargers; they are 9-1 against the Chargers)
1987: Oakland
1988: Washington
1991: Buffalo
1999: Seattle
2003: Kansas City
2004: Jacksonville, Tennessee
2005: Cleveland, Tampa Bay
2006: New England, New Orleans, New York Jets, L.A. Rams
2008: Atlanta, Carolina, Houston (the only game the Texans have played in Green Bay)
2009: Cincinnati
2010: Miami
2012: New York Giants (2011 season playoff game)
2013: Philadelphia, Pittsburgh
2014: San Francisco (2013 season playoff game)
2015: Chicago, Detroit, Minnesota
2016: Dallas, Indianapolis
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.