Buccaneers vs. Green Bay Packers

Every Regular-Season Meeting

Every completed game stays in the history, whether or not there is a BuccaneersFan.com dispatch to accompany it. The GameDay archive column links only to matching reports in the supplied site inventory. A dash means no report is linked—not that the game has been omitted.

All 58 regular-season games: Tampa Bay 23 wins, 34 losses and 1 tie.

Totals: Tampa Bay 23 wins, Green Bay 34 wins, 1 tie. The five Milwaukee games produced a 2–3 Buccaneers record. The two postseason meetings are recorded separately below.

Sources: Dated Buccaneers–Packers results · Buccaneers: series history and early milestones · Buccaneers: 1987 dated schedule · Buccaneers: 1988 dated schedule · Buccaneers: October 4, 2026 game recap.

Two Playoff Meetings. Two Very Different Voyages.

Green Bay won the first postseason encounter. Tampa Bay won the second—and earned the right to sail home for a Super Bowl. January dates are shown alongside their actual NFL seasons.

Sources: Dated Buccaneers–Packers results · Buccaneers: rivalry history · Buccaneers: 2020 NFC Championship victory.

The Captain calls that 2021 victory “the finest return-to-port authorization ever issued.” The Parrot agrees, but refuses to accept a photograph of the scoreboard as payment for the next roof invoice.

Packers 17, Buccaneers 14 · A Rally Just Short of the Dock

Raymond James Stadium · Tampa, Florida. Jalon Daniels’ first NFL start delivered a competitive fourth-quarter chase but not a Buccaneers victory. Starting in place of the injured Baker Mayfield, the rookie threw for 148 yards and a touchdown, ran for 55 yards, and was intercepted twice. Jordan Love finished with 197 passing yards and two touchdowns for Green Bay.

Sean Tucker scored on the ground and Kenny Gainwell caught Daniels’ touchdown pass. Late defensive takeaways kept the Bucs in reach, but pressure disrupted the final possession. The correct Tampa Bay-first entry is 14–17.

Read the October 4, 2026 GameDay report

Sources: Buccaneers: October 4, 2026 game recap · Packers: October 4, 2026 game report.

Booty opened the X-marked bag, counted the afternoon’s imaginary scoring doblones, and announced that the roof fund was “progressing.” The Parrot amended the report to “still insufficient for one gutter.”

Opponent Briefing · Green Bay Packers

Sources: Packers: official franchise history · Pro Football Hall of Fame: Packers facts and titles · Packers: coaching staff · Packers: front office.

Buccaneer Memories Worth Keeping in the Chest

Sources: Buccaneers: series history and early milestones · Buccaneers: rivalry history · Buccaneers: December 17, 2023 victory.

Across the Bays · Familiar Tampa Connections

Sources: Packers: Santana Dotson’s journey · Packers: Hardy Nickerson’s final season · Raiders: Jon Gruden’s coaching timeline.

From a Packing Company to Titletown

1919–1928 · A Local Team Finds Its Feet

Curly Lambeau and George Whitney Calhoun helped organize the Packers on August 11, 1919. The Indian Packing Company’s support supplied the name. Green Bay played independently before entering the APFA in 1921; that league became the NFL. The early story is one of local backing and repeated efforts to keep a small-city team alive.

1929–1944 · The First Championship Foundations

Three consecutive titles in 1929, 1930 and 1931 established the club nationally. The later Lambeau teams, featuring Don Hutson’s extraordinary receiving ability, added championships in 1936, 1939 and 1944. Green Bay’s championship tradition predates both television’s football boom and the Super Bowl.

1959–1967 · Lombardi Resets the Standard

Vince Lombardi arrived in 1959 and transformed a struggling team. The Packers won the 1961 and 1962 NFL championships, then three straight from 1965 through 1967. The final two seasons also brought victories in the first two Super Bowls. Bart Starr, Paul Hornung, Jim Taylor, Ray Nitschke and their teammates became enduring names in football history.

1968–1991 · A Long Climb Back

The years after Lombardi were far less consistent. By the time Tampa Bay joined the NFC Central in 1977, the Packers and Buccaneers were building the twice-a-year familiarity that still gives their meetings an old-neighborhood feel. Not every chapter of a storied franchise is a championship chapter.

1992–2007 · Favre, Holmgren and a New Run

Ron Wolf’s front office, Mike Holmgren’s coaching and Brett Favre’s quarterback play helped restore Green Bay’s standing. Reggie White added a major defensive presence. The 1996 team won Super Bowl XXXI; the 1997 team returned to the Super Bowl after eliminating Tampa Bay and San Francisco.

2008–2022 · The Rodgers Starting Era

Aaron Rodgers took over as the regular starter in 2008. Green Bay’s 2010 team won Super Bowl XLV, and later seasons brought further division titles, MVP performances and postseason runs. This period also contains two very different Buccaneer memories: the 2009 Tampa Bay upset and the 2020-season NFC Championship won by the Bucs.

2019–2026 · LaFleur’s Tenure and the Love Chapter

Matt LaFleur’s coaching tenure began in 2019, overlapping the final Rodgers years and continuing into the Jordan Love era. The October 2026 meeting added another close finish to the Tampa Bay rivalry. The current leadership belongs in its own dated briefing above; the historic chapters should not remain frozen under an old “present” heading.

Sources: Packers: official franchise history · Pro Football Hall of Fame: Packers facts and titles · Packers: coaching staff · Buccaneers: October 4, 2026 game recap.

Sources: Pro Football Hall of Fame: Packers facts and titles · Packers: official franchise history.

Eight Grounds, Two Wisconsin Cities

Green Bay’s stadium story has two parallel tracks: its home grounds in Green Bay, and a Milwaukee schedule that helped sustain the franchise for decades. The city on the helmet did not always identify the city on the ticket.

Sources: Packers: official franchise history · Buccaneers: series history and early milestones · Packers: Lambeau Field’s 70th season.

Lambeau in 2026 · Its 70th Season, Not Its 70th Birthday

The stadium dedicated on September 29, 1957 entered its 70th season of play in 2026. Its history is a sequence of expansions rather than a replacement of the original home. The Packers’ July 2026 account documents the 2023–2026 football-headquarters work, adding more than 200,000 square feet, including an indoor 35-yard field, offices, meeting rooms and renovated player facilities.

The playing bowl remains outdoors. Whatever else changes around it, a late-season visit can still demand far more layers than a Tampa Bay tailgate.

Sources: Packers: Lambeau Field’s 70th season.

Green, Gold and a Few New Pages in the Wardrobe

From Blue and Gold to the Familiar “G”

The club’s early look included blue and gold before green and gold became its signature. The familiar helmet “G” arrived in 1961. Throwback designs preserve earlier eras, but those archival uniforms should not be mistaken for the team’s entire current wardrobe.

2024 · Winter Warning

The all-white Winter Warning look paired white jerseys and pants with a white alternate helmet. Green markings kept the Packers identity visible while offering a distinct change from the traditional gold shell.

2026 · A Uniform Inspired by the Owners

On August 25, 2026, Green Bay unveiled its Rivalries alternate. Vintage green is combined with alabaster and gold, including a matte alabaster helmet and green facemask. The design takes inspiration from the paper and lettering of Packers stock certificates, linking the uniform to the club’s unusual community-ownership story.

The announcement designated the October 11 Chicago game for its debut. That design is a new chapter—not a reason to discard the older images preserved on this page.

Sources: Packers: official franchise history · Packers: 2024 Winter Warning uniform · Packers: 2026 Rivalries uniform.

The Captain has asked whether the currency-style numbers can be exchanged for stadium lumber. The Parrot has directed him to the department marked “Absolutely Not.”

The Fans, the Leap and the Borrowed Bicycle

Sources: Packers: Cheesehead and celebration history · Packers: the Lambeau Leap · Packers: the bicycle tradition.

Respect for a rival’s history does not require surrendering the Buccaneers flag. It simply makes the next meeting more interesting. The Parrot welcomes the traveling fans; the Captain would like them to stop leaving pretend cheese in his real treasure bag.

Source Notes & How to Read This Page

Archive foundation: the supplied Packers opponent page provides the original image locations, embedded photographs and existing GameDay destinations. Those destinations were matched against the supplied BuccaneersFan.com sitemap inventory. The inventory establishes a recorded archive address, not a guarantee of its live availability today.

Research updates: dated game results, official club recaps, the Packers’ staff directories and historical material, and the Pro Football Hall of Fame were used to check and refresh the factual sections. Research links appear separately from the GameDay-report column. Dates, results and the Tampa Bay-first score order have been reconciled; historical venue names are used for the game dates.

Editorial corrections: the first win is September 16, 1979; the 14–14 tie is October 12, 1980; the December 12 overtime loss belongs to 1983, not 1893; the November 1987 win was in Milwaukee; and the October 2026 result is Tampa Bay 14, Green Bay 17. The January 1998 game was a Divisional playoff in the 1997 season. The January 2021 game was the 2020 NFC Championship.

Missing reports: the October 2020, September 2022 and December 2023 regular-season games and the January 2021 championship game remain fully listed without GameDay links. The 2020 entry no longer borrows the 2011 report address. No new report has been invented.

Fan voice: Captain Booty, the Parrot, the scoring-doblone ledger and the stadium-roof negotiations are fictional fan commentary. They are not statements from either team or an actual stadium-financing proposal.

The Captain salutes the old division rivals. The Parrot salutes the corrected arithmetic. Neither has approved cheese as legal tender.