Article: Green Bay packed and ready for an encore Seven young players step up to make the Packers even better; Back-to-back champions Six teams have won back-to-back Super Bowls since the Packers first did so. Here's a look at those six, with their records in each of their two Super Bowl seasons and the teams that dethroned them. Team Super Bowls 1st 2nd Successor Green Bay Packers 1967, '68 12-2 9-4-1 Jets Miami Dolphins 1973, '74 14-0 12-2 Steelers Pittsburgh Steelers 1975, '76 10-3-1 12-2 Raiders Pittsburgh Steelers 1979, '80 14-2 12-4 Raiders San Francisco 49ers 1989, '90 10-6 14-2 Giants Dallas Cowboys 1993, '94 13-3 12-4 49ers

Last week the beat writers covering the Philadelphia Eagles gathered for their annual start-of-the-season briefing with coach Ray Rhodes.

It was a wide-ranging, no holds barred session, and the typically taciturn Rhodes was feeling good and flashing his sense of humor that the public seldom sees.

Someone brought up the schedule. "Well, we open with the Giants, and they're really improved," said Rhodes. "And then we play Green Bay." At that point Rhodes raised his chin, broke into a wide grin and continued to speak, only with his eyes shut for effect. "Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder . . . they can't see 'em but even they know what Green Bay's doing," Rhodes said. Here, the coach changed from ...

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