The Ice Bowl

[denverYooper]

From

The 1967 National Football League Championship Game between the Western Conference champion Green Bay Packers and the Eastern Conference champion Dallas Cowboys was the 35th championship game in NFL history. The game was held at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wisconsin on December 31, 1967. The winner of the game would meet the champion of the American Football League in Super Bowl II. Because of the adverse conditions in which the game was played, and its dramatic climax, it has been immortalized as the Ice Bowl (though it was not a Super Bowl) and is considered one of the greatest games in NFL history.

[denverYooper]

I wonder if the Packers will be watching the film this week .

[Freak Out]

Epic.

[mraynrand]

It's a good thing the refs from this past Sunday weren't the ones spotting the ball on that goal-line dive.

[red]

true story, the ice bowl set an all time record for attendance at a sporting event when 25 million people attended the game

i know this because i've met about 70 thousand of them, even though the stadium only held 30 some thousand back then

we all know at least 50 or 60 people who were "there"

[Patler]

true story, the ice bowl set an all time record for attendance at a sporting event when 25 million people attended the game

i know this because i've met about 70 thousand of them, even though the stadium only held 30 some thousand back then

we all know at least 50 or 60 people who were "there"

True, but over half are dead now, so enjoy hearing the first-hand recollections of the remaining 10-12 million who were there before they are all gone! (I was NOT there, but did watch it on TV.)

[gbgary]

watched it on tv in pueblo, colorado, as a 13 yr old. I've got the cd of it that the nfl put together. evidently the actual game footage was lost/destroyed. somehow they managed to get every play assembled in sequence from several different sources.

[woodbuck27]

My head was about a foot from the TV when Bart Starr got the HUGE TD!

I was screaming at the TV set like I seldom have.

I'll never forget that moment and where I was when that went down.

A magnificiant TD !

[bobblehead]

true story, the ice bowl set an all time record for attendance at a sporting event when 25 million people attended the game

i know this because i've met about 70 thousand of them, even though the stadium only held 30 some thousand back then

we all know at least 50 or 60 people who were "there"

I was in fact there, so add me to the list...wait, what year was I born?

[red]

I was in fact there, so add me to the list...wait, what year was I born?

i don't know how many times i've heard it from people under 50

oh yeah, your mom and dad took you to the game when you were 3 and it was 50 below zero?

[woodbuck27]

I was in fact there, so add me to the list...wait, what year was I born?

If your nose doesn't have a white spot on the end of it!?

You probably weren't there.

On the other hand if your not sure if you were there or not based on memory.

You might very well have been there.

[Pugger]

My hubby was there (his feet are still frozen ). His father's seats were right in that end zone where Starr scored the winning TD. My parents would let me go because I was only 13.

[mraynrand]

One point about stadiums and tradition: Teams make a terrible mistake when they move the footprint of their stadium. Even if you are going to build new, you should build on the old site if at all possible. It's just great for tradition to be able to look down at the field and say "Right there, on that exact spot, is where X happened." Think of all the tradition that is killed when a stadium gets torn down and a new one goes up elsewhere. Yankee stadium is a good example and so is Candlestick park. "the Catch" spot is going to end up being in some warehouse cul de sac. Just awful.

[woodbuck27]

One point about stadiums and tradition: Teams make a terrible mistake when they move the footprint of their stadium. Even if you are going to build new, you should build on the old site if at all possible. It's just great for tradition to be able to look down at the field and say "Right there, on that exact spot, is where X happened." Think of all the tradition that is killed when a stadium gets torn down and a new one goes up elsewhere. Yankee stadium is a good example and so is Candlestick park. "the Catch" spot is going to end up being in some warehouse cul de sac. Just awful.

Now there.

That post tugs at my heart.

[Patler]

One point about stadiums and tradition: Teams make a terrible mistake when they move the footprint of their stadium. Even if you are going to build new, you should build on the old site if at all possible. It's just great for tradition to be able to look down at the field and say "Right there, on that exact spot, is where X happened." Think of all the tradition that is killed when a stadium gets torn down and a new one goes up elsewhere. Yankee stadium is a good example and so is Candlestick park. "the Catch" spot is going to end up being in some warehouse cul de sac. Just awful.

With that in mind, I am very glad Mike Sherman was the GM/HC during the rebuilding of Lambeau. He was very, very much into tradition and history, and insisted that portions of the old players entrance tunnel be saved and installed in the relocated entrance so that today's players walk across the same concrete that the greats of the past walked across. I think he also saved some office doors (maybe Lombardi's?) and things like that to merge the old and new. Not everyone would have thought of those things.