GREEN BAY – In addition to the NFC North title, a little slice of history is on the line Sunday night as well.
Should the Packers win their fifth straight division crown, Mike McCarthy would become just the third head coach in the history of the NFC Central/North to finish in first place five consecutive times.
Bud Grant won six straight NFC Central titles with the Vikings from 1973-78, and Mike Ditka won five straight with the Bears from 1984-88. Since then, only Green Bay’s Mike Holmgren and Mike Sherman have won as many as three in a row, until McCarthy.