Green and Gold were the triumphant colours at Super Bowl XLV, but there was a little Red and White mixed into the Green Bay Packers’ victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Start with Super Bowl MVP Aaron Rodgers, who was tutored by a couple of Calgary Stampeders alumni at the University of California-Berkley.

Rodgers’s head coach during two seasons at Cal was former Stamps quarterback and assistant coach Jeff Tedford while his offensive co-ordinator and quarterbacks coach was George Cortez, who had stints on the Stampeders coaching staff both before and after his time at Cal.

In addition, Calgary quarterback Henry Burris was a member of the Packers in 2001 and two of his Green Bay teammates — receiver Donald Driver and offensive lineman Chad Clifton — are still with the club.

“Both great guys, both hard workers,” Burris said of his former Green Bay colleagues.

Two other current members of the Stampeders — linebacker Juwan Simpson in 2007 and defensive lineman DeVone Claybrooks in 2001 — attended Green Bay training camps.

There were a couple of Stampeders connections on the other sideline also as punter Burke Dales once attended camp with the Steelers while defensive lineman Charleston Hughes was a high school teammate of Pittsburgh linebacker LaMarr Woodley.