Packers/Colts Evokes Good Memories

I noticed that this year’s NFL Hall of Fame game (Sunday night) matches the Green Bay Packers and Indianapolis Colts evoking great memories of the team’s battling for NFL Western Conference supremacy in the mid 1960’s, most notably in an actual playoff for that title in 1965.

Green Bay won that day (13-10) in just the second NFL and third NFL or AFL game to go into overtime.

More on that game in the days to follow but I recall missing the first half of the tilt, even on radio only to be informed upon arrival at our destination that the game was being broadcast on WNEW, the long time home of New York Giants broadcasts, of course done best with Marty Glickman.

The great Mel Torme is pictured in the WNEW promo picture above.

The Pack/Colts playoff was played in Green Bay the day after Christmas. Surely if WNEW was not broadcasting football, the classic “The Christmas Song” co written by Mr. Torme and Robert Welles would have played on its airwaves.

Click below to hear it now. Nat King Cole is singing, need I say more.

Nat King Cole – The Christmas Song – Lyrics Below