Friday Cheese Curds: Will Lambeau loom large late in the season?
The Packers didn’t really embrace their identity as a cold-weather team until fairly recently.
An exterior view of Lambeau Field in the snow as fans walk in before an NFL football game between the Green Bay Packers and the Seattle Seahawks Sunday, December 11, 2016, in Green Bay, WI. (Photo by Tom Hauck/Getty Images) | Getty Images The Green Bay Packers’ schedule in 2026 has something that is exceedingly rare in the NFL, but particularly so in franchise history. The team will play four of its final five regular season games at home, all coming on or after December 13th.
But as we found out this week, the Packers actually used to prefer to avoid playing at home in cold weather. In fact, it wasn’t until about three decades ago that the franchise started to fully embrace the mythos of Lambeau Field being the Frozen Tundra. Still, Lambeau Field was a dreaded postseason venue for decades until that mystique wore off in the early 2000s, but it’s interesting to see just how much of that reputation stemmed from a single game in 1967.
For better or worse, the Packers are 6-6 in their last 12 home playoff games after going 13-0 prior to the 2002 season. However, they haven’t played a home game in the postseason since 2021. Hopefully a long stretch of Lambeau Field games late this season will set them up with a division title in 2026 and an opportunity to play at home again deep into January.
Packers preferred not to play late-season home games in Lambeau Field | Packers. com It’s time for a history lesson, and I learned a lot from this one. It wasn’t until the 1990s under Mike Holmgren that the Packers started really embracing their cold-weather home-field advantage.