That seems to have been the case for the Green Bay Packers who won Super Bowls XXXI and XLV, as well as those who witnessed Lombardi being handed the “World Professional Football Championship” trophy in a much less formal setting after the Packers captured what are now officially recognized as Super Bowls I and II.
However, times were vastly different when the Packers won their first nine NFL championships in the pre-Super Bowl era and won the two NFL titles prior to advancing to the first two Super Bowls.
First, let me clarify. In 1966 and ’67, before the AFL-NFL merger was finalized, the Packers were widely credited with being two-time and then three-time NFL champions following their two wins over Dallas, not after their Super Bowl victories over Kansas City and Oakland.