Packers fans are celebrating their glorious 37-3 victory over the hated Bears like it is 1996.  They are justified.  You whoop your rival that bad, the victor definitely deserves to enjoy the spoils.  Please, put down the cupcake when it comes to the whole the Packers are the greatest franchise ever because they won 12 championships gloat.  Which Packers fans have been beating their chests at ad-nauseum.  I am just going to bring up the thought, I'm not trying to ruffle feathers or sound like a bitter Bears fan.  I am just thinking in the long lines of great franchises, 12 championships might not be enough to make the Packers the greatest franchise ever.

Now stay with me here and before you say I am crazy, curse me out, or wish me bodily harm.  In the last four decades, the Packers have won one championship.  Let me repeat that, they have won one championship.  Again, when I say the last four decades, I am talking about the 70's, 80's, 90's and the current aught we are in.  A missed decade here or there can happen among great franchises.  Greatest franchises of all time do not go four decades with just one championship.  The Yankees only went two separate decades without a championship, the Celtics the same.  The Montreal Canadians are closing in on their first decade without a championship.  Granted the Canadians won most of their Stanley Cups when the NHL had six teams.  Still, greatest franchises of all time do not go a whole score of time without a championship!

Now I know I am comparing different sports but if you are the greatest franchise ever, you really should not have a stretch like this of one championship.  Greatest franchises of all time win consistently not just a couple of great stretches of really great play.  The Lombardi era was great football do not get me wrong.  Five titles on a premise of you know what we are running but you still have to stop it is some of the best piece of winning ever seen.  Truly deserving of having the Super Bowl trophy named after Vince.  Still, it was one great stretch.  Before that stretch was almost 15 years of no championships and was followed by 20 plus years of bad football before Reggie White and Brett Favre showed up.  Sorry, I need more proof beyond 12 championships.

Here is where you can have your cake of 12 championships and eat it too.  40 playoff games and a 25-15 record.  15-3 record at home in the playoffs.  One of the highest winning playoff winning percentages and top 5 in playoff wins.  Add in second on the list in among having hall of famer players.  892 all time wins and over .600 winning percentage at home.  Please use the quality argument not the quantity.  Remember we are in the Super Bowl era and the Pack only have three of those.  They are getting lapped by the Cowboys in the playoff appearances and Super Bowls.  What the Pack have is they have the long sustaining success.  They are not a franchise like the Cardinals or the Lions who have long been lost in the woods ever since their inceptions. 

12 championships is good enough to earn titletown but not greatest of all time.  Think about it, 11 titles came before Brett Favre even was a twinkle in his mother's eye.  Two great stretches does not a greatest franchise of all time make.  But five quality stretches mixed in with championships does.  That my friend is the argument you make.