The '61 Packers are certainly in the discussion. That team was dominant, and only a week 11 loss at Detroit kept the Packers from finishing the season 15-0 World Champs. The Packers greatly missed Paul Hornung in that game, and Bart Starr, who only threw 9 interceptions in the entire season, was picked twice by a pair of Hall of Famers, Dick LeBeau and Night Train Lane.
The Packer defense gave up 54 points in the first nine games of the season, and they gave up more than 7 points in only one of those games (21 to Minnesota). The defense pitched four shutouts, including the NFL title game where they blanked the 12-2 New York Giants. In 15 games, they allowed 125 points, or 8.3 points a game. The team as a whole scored 415 points (29.6 ppg) and allowed 148 (10.6 ppg), both best in the NFL.
The '62 Packer defense featured five future Hall of Famers: Willie Davis, Henry Jordan, Ray Nitschke, Herb Adderley and Willie Wood. The team, probably the greatest in NFL history, had ten Hall of Famers in total (Bart Starr, Jim Taylor, Paul Hornung, Jim Ringo and Forrest Gregg on offense), and another, Jerry Kramer, is a no-brainer Hall of Famer that inexplicably has not yet been inducted yet.
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