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In 1938, the Giants won 23-17 at the Polo Grounds in New York. The Giants turned two blocked punts into 10 points, but the Packers rallied on Arnie Herber’s 50-yard touchdown pass to Carl Mulleneaux and Clarke Hinkle’s 6-yard TD run to take a 17-16 lead in the third quarter. Ed Danowski hit Hank Soar for the winning TD.

The Packers' next four championships all came at the expense of the Giants. 

In 1939, Curly Lambeau’s Packers posted a 27-0 whitewashing of the Giants at State Fair Park in Milwaukee for the team’s fifth NFL title. It was the first shutout in championship game history. Two of the finest passers of the era, Herber and Cecil Isbell, threw touchdown passes through 35 mph winds, and the Packers picked off six passes.

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The future of Green Bay Packers quarterback is in the news again, thanks to a story by his good friend Al Jones of the Sun Herald in Biloxi, Miss.

"Each week, I bring more stress on myself wondering if this is too good to be true," Favre told the Sun Herald. "I want to continue the streak and winning. When I talk about the streak, it's not the (consecutive) starts; it's the hot streak we are on. Then, I ask what can I do better?

"I am trying to enjoy it because this could be my last game in Green Bay. For the first time in three years, I haven't thought this could be my last game. I would like to continue longer."

Not surprisingly, most Packers fans — including Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle — seized on the first part of the quote, apparently blind to what Favre said in the following paragraph.

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