The Kansas City Chiefs fell short of modern NFL history, insuring that the Green Bay Packers remain — for now — pro football's last club to win three consecutive world titles.
While few if any champagne corks popped in Wisconsin on Sunday night, there were surely some smiles across Packers Nation as their ancient NFL and NFC rivals, the Philadelphia Eagles, did them a solid.
"I'm not sad, let's just put it that way," Hall of Fame member and former Green Bay linebacker Dave Robinson wryly told NBC News on Monday, as his Packers' place in history stayed undisturbed.