1962

[Badgerinmaine]

If you wish to see the Packers old uniforms in three dimensional format, visit the Packers' Hall of Fame located below Lambeau.

The one thing that struck me about some of the old Packer uniforms is that they must have been unbearably hot in warm weather!

True! Fortunately that was seldom a problem on the Frozen Tundra Not a lot of warm weather towns in the early NFL until the Rams move from Cleveland to LA. In the really early days, I don't think anyone was south of Philly until the Redskins moved to Washington.

[Fritz]

Well, one of the things that this generic poster says about the culture of the time is that football just wasn't that fan-atic at the time. That is, imagine the screaming today if the NFL put out a poster with the two Super Bowl teams' names on it, and had the wrong uniform colors for one team on the cover?

Clearly, that was not important at that time. Revenue would be primarily (I'm guessing) from the gate and from television advertising, which, for football, was not even close to what baseball advertising could bring in at that era. The poster seems designed to convey a general idea - a football game was to be played, and people who liked football were encouraged to pay attention.

Now, the team identities are much, much more important. The NFL has gone after the casual fan, and a person's expenditures on sports compete with expenditures on entertainment. To capture that interest, you've got to develop a "brand identity," which means that in this case the teams are the brands and the NFL the sort of uber-brand, or more accurately the brand behind the brand.

Ah, the old days.

[gbgary]

i forgot our colors were once red and white. i need to see if i can find that throw-back jersey.

Our colors weren't red and white in 1962. I don't think they ever were. Must have been a generic football drawing.

i was making a joke.

[TravisWilliams23]

I would sure love to find a dvd or video of that '62 title game.
From what I've read about the game, the Giants knew they had to stop Jim Taylor to win. All accounts of the game tell of how Huff & Co. gang tackled, punched, and roughed up Taylor on every carry. Jimmy's tongue was badly cut after one tackle, bleeding profusely, but after getting it stitched up he was right back in the ball game. Taylor scored the only Packer touchdown that day.
On the plane ride back to Green Bay, while everyone else was celebrating the victory, Taylor just sat quietly in his seat, totally exhausted and beaten. It was discovered later on that he had hepatitis. What a football player!
Brett Favre sure has a lot of Jimmy Taylor's grit.

[Freak Out]

1692 was a hell of a year.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1692

[Freak Out]

I would sure love to find a dvd or video of that '62 title game.
From what I've read about the game, the Giants knew they had to stop Jim Taylor to win. All accounts of the game tell of how Huff & Co. gang tackled, punched, and roughed up Taylor on every carry. Jimmy's tongue was badly cut after one tackle, bleeding profusely, but after getting it stitched up he was right back in the ball game. Taylor scored the only Packer touchdown that day.
On the plane ride back to Green Bay, while everyone else was celebrating the victory, Taylor just sat quietly in his seat, totally exhausted and beaten. It was discovered later on that he had hepatitis. What a football player!
Brett Favre sure has a lot of Jimmy Taylor's grit.

No bloodborne pathogen rules enforced in those days....

[Badgerinmaine]

Well, one of the things that this generic poster says about the culture of the time is that football just wasn't that fan-atic at the time. That is, imagine the screaming today if the NFL put out a poster with the two Super Bowl teams' names on it, and had the wrong uniform colors for one team on the cover?

Well, there are some counterexamples from that era, too. Check out some of these fun program cover illustrations from the AFL:

http://www.mmbolding.com/BSR/AFL_Program_Art.htm

[Jimx29]

half hour show tonight at 9:00 central on NFL network featuring this game

[billy_oliver880]

Both the '61 and '62 championships are posted on nfl.com under videos and I believe they are featured videos from nfl films. I would look them up but I am on dial up right now. Both of them are shortened to about 30 mins a piece but really worth watching.