R.I.P. John Brockington

[Rastak]

Still remember this one game vs Vikings at the Met during Brockington's rookie year of 1971. Packers were big underdogs, but dominated the game only to lose 3-0. Brockington had 149 yards rushing and Donny Anderson 68 as the Packers moved the ball all day. Packers had 300+ yards and the Vikings less than 100. But the Packers would mess up every time they got in Vikings territory. Asked about the stats after the game, Bud Grant said "Stats are for losers." The QB stats for the game show how different the game was in the 1970's. https://www.pro-football-reference.c...7111140min.htm

Good ole Gary Cuozzo.

[Fritz]

Still remember this one game vs Vikings at the Met during Brockington's rookie year of 1971. Packers were big underdogs, but dominated the game only to lose 3-0. Brockington had 149 yards rushing and Donny Anderson 68 as the Packers moved the ball all day. Packers had 300+ yards and the Vikings less than 100. But the Packers would mess up every time they got in Vikings territory. Asked about the stats after the game, Bud Grant said "Stats are for losers." The QB stats for the game show how different the game was in the 1970's. https://www.pro-football-reference.c...7111140min.htm

I was Patlerized years ago, and rightly so, when I made some off-the-cuff comments about how much more conservative football was in the late fifteis and sixties. Patler showed me that the game actually didn't move into the extreme conservatism I remember until the late sixties or early seventies - about the time you mention. Not that it was wide-open, but it got really conservative in the seventies, with the advent of the running back as the be-all and end-all of the offense.

Scott Hunter wouldn't even make it as a third-stringer in today's game.

[Rastak]

I was Patlerized years ago, and rightly so, when I made some off-the-cuff comments about how much more conservative football was in the late fifteis and sixties. Patler showed me that the game actually didn't move into the extreme conservatism I remember until the late sixties or early seventies - about the time you mention. Not that it was wide-open, but it got really conservative in the seventies, with the advent of the running back as the be-all and end-all of the offense.

Scott Hunter wouldn't even make it as a third-stringer in today's game.

Thing is though those defensive battles were great.

[Fritz]

Oh, I loved those games, and growing up in that era colored my perception of the game, even up until today. I still yell "Run the damn ball!" at the TV all the time when the Packers are playing. And I get irked when the Packer defense acts like melting butter all the time, even though I know defense is not the calling card it once was, not for anybody. Last time a team had a really, really dominant defense that I remember, and used it to win it all, was back when the Ravens won their Superb Owl.