Bud Lea at JSONLINE has an excellent article about Super Bowl 32
Green Bay 24 Denver 31
The trouble with Super Bowls, as Gene Upshaw once said, is nobody remembers who lost the game.
That's true to a point. The Green Bay Packers reached that point in Super Bowl XXXII. By losing to the Denver Broncos, 31-24, the heavily favored Packers, representing a legendary franchise that had never lost a Super Bowl game, indelibly etched themselves in their fans' memories forever as the team that let one get away.
The Packers were a dominant team in 1997. They finished the regular-season with a 13-3 record. They had six players voted to the Pro Bowl.
In the NFC playoffs, they brushed aside the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 21-7, and the San Francisco 49ers, 23-10.
Here is the last part although read the whole article.
LeRoy Butler, Reggie White and all the others watched from the bench as Favre's fourth-down pass, intended for Mark Chmura, was knocked to the ground with 32 seconds to play. Holmgren clenched his jaw with disgust.
The Packers felt a sudden chill. It was the end of their dreams.
This was not right. This was all wrong.
The Denver players were the ones leaping and hugging and living out a dream. The Packers could only watch.
Afterward, Packer general manager Ron Wolf didn't mince his words.
"We're a one-year wonder, just a fart in the wind," he fumed. "Now this will stop all this idiotic talk about a dynasty. We just got our guts kicked out here."
Holmgren was more understanding. "They played a whale of a game," he said of his team. "It just wasn't good enough. No one feels good. It's the Super Bowl. It comes down to one game. We had a feeling of tremendous elation last year, and Denver had it this year. But we'll be back."
Holmgren moved to Seattle to coach the Seahawks in 1999. Wolf retired before the 2001 season. And the Packers have yet to return to the Super Bowl.
Bud Lea has covered 31 Super Bowls
