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It’s amazing to me that through all the years, and with the successes of the franchises, the Pittsburgh Steelers and Green Bay Packers haven’t played more meaningful games.
The Steelers and Packers have played 32 times, starting in 1933 when the Steelers were the Pirates. Green Bay won the first eight meetings between the teams; Pittsburgh won for the first time in 1947, 18-17. But for the most part, either one or both teams have been mediocre when they met. During Pittsburgh’s Super Bowl season in 2005, the Steelers beat Green Bay during the regular season, 20-10. But the Packers were only 4-12 that season.
In 1975, when the Steelers won a championship (their second in a row and second of what was to be four during a six-year stretch) and were 12-2 in the regular season, Green Bay was 4-10. Pittsburgh beat Green Bay that season, 16-13. And during the Packers’ Super Bowl run in 1967, when they were 9-4-1, they beat a 4-9-1 Steelers team, 24-17. Both Pittsburgh and Green Bay were outstanding during the 1995 season, when the Packers won their regular-season match-up, 24-19. Pittsburgh won the AFC championship that season and Green Bay lost to Dallas in the NFC title game. Both teams were 11-5 during the regular season. Well, the Steelers and Packers are playing a meaningful game at Cowboys Stadium on Feb. 6 – the Super Bowl. And it should be a classic. But will it be as dramatic as the last regular-season game between the two in 2009. In Week 15 of that season, the Steelers needed a late touchdown to beat Green Bay, 37-36, in Pittsburgh. There were 36 points scored in the fourth quarter of that one and both quarterbacks – Aaron Rodgers of the Packers and the Steelers’ Ben Roethlisberger – had crazy games. Rodgers completed 26 of 48 pass attempts for 383 yards and three touchdowns. He was not intercepted. Roethlisberger was even better, completing 29 of 46 pass attempts for 503 yards and three touchdowns. Again, no interceptions. The two combined to throw 94 passes that day without a pick. There were only 125 rushing yards in the game to go with 848 yards through the air. Hard to fathom we’d get that kind of a game in the Super Bowl because both defenses are so good. But both defenses were good in 2009, and the offenses combined for 73 points.
* I think this is a difficult year for Wichita State basketball coach Gregg Marshall. He hasn’t told me that and I haven’t really asked. I just think it has to be. He has a good team. The strength of his team is depth. There is no player who stands out among the rest with the possible exception of senior forward J.T. Durley. For Marshall, it hasn’t mattered much which five players are on the court at a given time. He’s done a good job dividing minutes among 10 players. But the Shockers don’t have a star and I would think a coach would be much more comfortable knowing there’s a player or two on his team who can put the rest of the guys on his back. Marshall, meanwhile, has to figure out which combinations work best in a given game. That’s why you saw guards Demetric Williams and David Kyles, who had played key minutes before, on the bench for all three overtimes during Wichita State’s win over Indiana State on Saturday night at Koch Arena. The WSU coach felt more comfortable with Joe Ragland and Toure Murry in the game, based on what he had seen previously. You would think that Kyles and Murry, because of their experience, would be ahead of Williams and Ragland. And that in crunch time of a huge game, those would be the two guards on the floor. Unfortunately, it’s just not that easy, which is why I’ve said numerous times that while quality depth is a good thing to have on a basketball team, it’s just as important to have two or three players, at least, who stand above the rest.
I’m not sure Wichita State has that on a consistent basis, which has made the Shockers a fascinating team to try and figure out. You never know who’s going to play well on any given night, which makes Marshall’s job so intriguing. It’s an interesting team, to say the least!
The Steelers and Packers have played 32 times, starting in 1933 when the Steelers were the Pirates. Green Bay won the first eight meetings between the teams; Pittsburgh won for the first time in 1947, 18-17. 
