Four of Packers' titles came against Giants

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.

In 1944, the teams met again, this time at the Polo Grounds, with Green Bay winning 14-7. Ted Fritsch scored on a 1-yard run on fourth-and-goal to give the Packers the lead, and caught a 28-yard pass from Irv Comp to make it 14-0 in the third quarter. Joe Laws picked off a team playoff-record three passes.

In 1961, the Packers destroyed the Giants 37-0 at City Stadium (what’s now called Lambeau Field) for the first championship of the Vince Lombardi era. Amazingly, it was the first championship game played in Green Bay. Paul Hornung, on leave from the Army, keyed the rout by scoring the first touchdown — a 6-yard run — booting four extra points and kicking three short field goals to tie a playoff record with 19 points. The Packers scored seven times against the NFL’s No. 1 defense, while the Packers’ defense held the Giants to six first downs and forced five turnovers.

The teams met again in 1962, with the Packers capping a 13-1 season by beating the Giants 16-7 at Yankee Stadium. It was a brutal battle, with the hard-hitting Giants seeking revenge and the weather — 13 degrees with 40 mph winds — making the game profoundly physical. “There were cold, swirling winds, and the field itself was frozen over. The conditions were just brutal, the worst you could imagine,” star fullback Jim Taylor later said. Ray Nitschke led the charge. His deflection led to an interception that thwarted a Giants drive that had reached the Packers’ 10-yard line, and he recovered two fumbles that led to 10 points. Jerry Kramer kicked three field goals, and Taylor — who rushed 31 times for 85 yards — scored on a 7-yard run.