Question: Kevin Smith was a member of a team that defeated what American Football Conference champions?

<P0-S0> Super Bowl XXXI was an American football game between the American Football Conference (AFC) champion New England Patriots and the National Football Conference (NFC) champion Green Bay Packers to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 1996 season. <P0-S1>  The Packers defeated the Patriots by the score of 35–21, earning their third overall Super Bowl victory, and their first since Super Bowl II. <P0-S2>  The Packers also extended their league record for the most overall NFL championships to 12. <P0-S3>  It was also the last in a run of 13 straight Super Bowl victories by the NFC over the AFC. <P0-S4>  The game was played on January 26, 1997 at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana. <SEP> <P1-S0> The 2015 Houston Cougars football team represented the University of Houston in the 2015 NCAA Division I FBS football season. <P1-S1>  It was the 68th year of season play for Houston. <P1-S2>  The team was led by first-year head coach Tom Herman and played its home games at TDECU Stadium in Houston. <P1-S3>  The Houston Cougars football team is a member of the American Athletic Conference in its West Division. <P1-S4>  They finished the season 13–1, 7–1 in American Athletic play to win a share of the West Division title. <P1-S5>  Due to their head to head win over Navy, they represented the West Division in the inaugural American Athletic Championship Game where they defeated Temple to become American Athletic Conference champions. <P1-S6>  As the highest ranked team from the "Group of five", they received an automatic bid to a New Year's Six bowl. <P1-S7>  They were invited to the Peach Bowl where they defeated Florida State. <SEP> <P2-S0> The Brooklyn Dodgers were an American football team that played in the National Football League from 1930 to 1943, and in 1944 as the Brooklyn Tigers. <P2-S1>  The team played its home games at Ebbets Field of the baseball National League's team, the Brooklyn Dodgers. <P2-S2>  In 1945, because of financial difficulties and the increasing scarcity of major league-level players because of the war-time defense requirements at the height of World War II, the team was merged with the Boston Yanks and were known as the Yanks for that season. <P2-S3>  This old NFL franchise was not related to the earlier (second incarnation) American Football League II with a franchise that played as the Brooklyn Tigers for the first half of the 1936 season before moving to Rochester, New York and playing as the Rochester Tigers. <P2-S4>  Another NFL team that played in the Brooklyn borough was the Brooklyn Lions (which became the Brooklyn Horsemen after merging with a team from an earlier first incarnation AFL of the same name) in 1926. <P2-S5>  Later co-owner and partner Dan Topping (1912–1974), pulled the Tigers team out of the old NFL in 1946 and placed it in the newly established rival professional league – the All-America Football Conference, which shortly lasted until 1949 until several stronger teams from the AAFC merged with and entered a reorganized NFL in 1950. <P2-S6>  It lasted until 1970 with the NFL-AFL (third) merger following the establishment of the first "Super Bowl" inter-league national championship game three years before with the old NFL champions playing the victors of the latest rival fourth incarnation of the American Football League IV, formed in 1960 (now the American Football Conference (AFC). <SEP> <P3-S0> Kevin Smith (born July 25, 1969) is a former tight end in the National Football League. <P3-S1>  Smith spent three seasons with the Los Angeles Raiders. <P3-S2>  After a year away from the NFL, he joined the Green Bay Packers for the 1996 NFL season. <P3-S3>  As such, he was a member of the Super Bowl XXXI Champion Packers.