Green Bay Packers and Seattle Seahawks have an interesting history
By Todd Welter

The Seattle Seahawks invade Lambeau Field to take on the Green Bay Packers.
It seems like these two teams have been playing each other forever, but this will be just the 24th meeting between the Green Bay Packers and the Seahawks.
The forever feeling might be because the Green Bay Packers and Seattle Seahawks have battled each other a lot lately as they have played 13 times over the last 15 seasons and six times in the last eight seasons.
The Green Bay Packers hold a 14-9 series advantage over the Seattle Seahawks along with three playoff wins and one soul-crushing NFC Championship game loss–we will discuss that game later.
This century when these two teams meet on the gridiron some interesting results have occurred.
“We want the ball and we are gonna score”
Those were Seahawks’ quarterback Matt Hasselback’s famous words in the 2003 Wild Card matchup between the Packers and the Seahawks at Lambeau. Hasselback would eat those words in the most gut-wrenching manner possible.
Brett Favre was playing in his first playoff game without his father, Irv Favre in the stands. Irv had suddenly passed away a couple of weeks before. The Green Bay Packers and Favre were playing on pure emotion from that point on.
The Green Bay Packers needed a miracle Arizona Cardinals comeback to beat the Minnesota Vikings on the last week of the season just to win the NFC North and keep their season going.
Once the Green Bay Packers got in, they ran into the upstart Seahawks in the playoffs.
Favre was also playing his former mentor and head coach, Mike Holmgren. Favre was brilliant that day as he completed 26 of 38 passes for 319 yards with a touchdown pass and a 102.9 quarterback rating.
Hasselback, Favre’s former backup, dueled the legend with 305 yards passing. It was a tight game from the start. The Packers defense did a good job containing Seattle’s biggest offensive weapon, running back Shaun Alexander, but they could not keep him out of the endzone. Alexander scored three touchdowns including the game-tying TD.
Hasselback was feeling confident, maybe a little too confident, when the Seahawks won the toss. That is when he uttered those famous words requesting to receive the ball.
The Seahawks got the ball but did nothing on the first possession of overtime. The Green Bay Packers could not move the ball either, went three-and-out, and punted the ball back to Hasselback.
On the sixth play of the ensuing drive, Hasselback tried to connect with Alex Bannister when Green Bay Packers’ cornerback Al Harris stepped in front of Bannister, intercepted the pass, and raced 52 yards for the game-winning score.
Lambeau Field went absolutely ballistic and the feeling in the building was growing that the Packers could be on their way to the Super Bowl.
Unfortunately, the next week 4th and 26 happened in Philadelphia, and the Packers’ season ended in heartbreak. It was probably not as heartbreaking as the way Hasselback must have felt when he watched Harris take the ball and score.
The Fail Mary
The last time Green Bay won in Seattle was 2008. It really should have been on September 24, 2012.
Instead, the Seahawks somehow inexplicably escaped with a 14-12 win. Well, there is one explanation for the win–the replacement officials.
The NFL was in the mix of a labor dispute with its regular referees. The NFL went with replacement officials and they were bad. This game was the replacement refs’ rock bottom.
Seattle had one last gasp to win the game. Russell Wilson chucked a Hail Mary pass. It appeared Packers’ safety M.D. Jennings caught the ball for a game-over pick.
Somehow the officials ruled that Seahawks’ wide receiver Golden Tate also possessed the ball when both were going to the ground. Except it was really Tate catching Jennings—at least that is how it looked. Somehow catching a Packer and a bit of the ball counted as simultaneous catch. Tie goes to the offense in a simultaneous so the Seahawks were awarded the touchdown and the win.
Seahawks’ head coach Pete Carroll jumped around as if he won the Super Bowl. Aaron Rodgers walked off the field with an exacerbated look on his face that explained it all—the Packers were robbed.
The 2014 NFC Championship Game
The Packers kept the loudest stadium in the NFL dead silent for 55 minutes.
Aaron Rodgers, despite playing on an injured calf and being picked off twice, was super efficient to help the Pack jump out to a 19-7 lead.
Green Bay’s defense sacked Russell Wilson five times and intercepted four of his passes. Morgan Burnett’s interception with 5:13 left seemed to be a Super Bowl appearance clinching play.
Alas, it turned out not be even close.
The Seahawks rallied in the most dramatic fashion possible…
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Packers’ tight end Brandon Bostik went down as one the biggest scapegoats in Packers’ history. A fan base was left to wonder what might have been if he had not tried to recover that fateful onside kick.