They Haven’t Won a Super Bowl in Over 15 Years

Another season has come and gone for the Green Bay Packers — and once again, the Lombardi Trophy is not heading back to Titletown. The 2025 NFL season was supposed to be the breakthrough. Jordan Love had matured into a top-tier quarterback, the defense was young and hungry, Lambeau Field was rocking, and the NFC North felt winnable. Yet when the playoffs ended, Green Bay found itself eliminated once more, leaving fans to face the same quiet, gnawing question that has lingered since February 2011: When will the drought finally end?

Here’s the thing about Packers fans: they don’t leave. Walk into any bar in Green Bay, Appleton, or Milwaukee on a Sunday — or stand in the frozen Lambeau bleachers in January — and you will find them there, wearing green and gold, cheering through the snow, believing until the clock hits zero. They’ve been doing it since 1919, the longest continuous franchise in professional football. They’ve watched other teams celebrate: the Patriots with six rings, the Chiefs with their dynasty, even the Eagles and Rams claiming glory in recent years — while Green Bay keeps reaching the playoffs, keeps winning divisions, but can’t quite climb the final mountain. The ghosts of the 2010 run, the near-misses in 2014, 2016, 2020, and beyond still haunt. And yet, the seats at Lambeau stay sold out. The cheeseheads keep multiplying. The loyalty never wavers. That says something profound about the soul of this fanbase.

If there is a reason for Packers fans to keep the faith, his name is Jordan Love. The quarterback they drafted in 2020 and waited patiently for has arrived. He’s shown elite arm talent, poise in the pocket, and the ability to make big plays when it matters most. He’s dragged the team to deep playoff runs and put up numbers that rival the best in the league. There have been growing pains and heartbreaking losses, but the flashes of brilliance are real — and they’re getting brighter. The talent is there. The question is time: how much more patience do the Packers — and their fans — have left to give? History suggests Packers fans will give all of it. Because that is who they are.

More Than a Football Team

Supporting the Green Bay Packers has never been purely about winning. It is about identity. It is about Sunday drives up Highway 41 with family, about the legends of Curly Lambeau, Vince Lombardi, Bart Starr, Brett Favre, Aaron Rodgers, and the Ice Bowl, about the 13 NFL championships — more than any other team in history — that still live rent-free in the minds of generations. That history is a source of pride that no 15-year Super Bowl drought can erase. The Packers represent a version of Wisconsin and the Midwest that is tough, community-owned, and fiercely proud. Their fans inherited that identity — passed down through families, through small towns, through decades of near-misses and heartbreaks.

Still Here, Still Loud

So who still supports the Packers? Everyone who grew up watching them. Everyone who stayed up late praying for one more Hail Mary. Everyone who has a parent or grandparent who told them stories about Lombardi’s last game, Favre’s gunslinger days, or Rodgers’ miracles. Everyone who still believes that one day — maybe this year, maybe the next — Titletown will celebrate another Super Bowl parade down Lombardi Avenue. The Packers may not have won the Super Bowl this season. But their fans showed up anyway — tailgating in sub-zero cold, singing “Go! You Packers Go!” through the pain. And that, more than any championship, is the truest measure of what this team means to Green Bay and the entire Packers Nation.

One day, the confetti will fall in the frozen tundra again. Until then, they keep showing up. Because that’s who they are. Go Pack Go. 🧀🏈