Exactly 56 Years Since Green Bay “Ice Bowl’d ” Dallas

It was on Sunday December 31, 1967 that in a game known as “The Ice Bowl,” the Green Bay Packers coached by the legendary Vince Lombardi won a still unprecedented third straight NFL crown, won in a post-season tilt, by as the narrator (not John Facenda) on NFL Films invoked “traversed 68 yards on a polar ice cap” to score a touchdown and extra point that (21-17’d) the Dallas Cowboys.

I recall watching that historic game with my father and that “Mr” Al “Cheese” Brown was here/there (there is a there in GB where it was 16 degrees below zero Fahrenheit degrees) to see the great Bart Starr “sneak” the Pack into history, as they (33-14’d) the Oakland Raiders in the subsequent NFL/AFL Championship Game that became the second Super Bowl.

Lombardi, who hosted a New Year’s Eve party after the game and died within 3 years, retired as Pack coach after the ’67 season only to coach “Wash” in ’69, before dying in September 1970.

Dallas, under another legendary coach, Tom Landry, (they were together as assistants under Jim Lee Howell with the New York Giants) “suffered” in ‘offs losses the next 3 seasons before winning the 6th Supe (24-3) in the 1971 season.

Click above to view Bart Starr’s “sneak” TD with the call by Pack radio broadcaster, Ted Moore.

Moore would call Jim O’Brien’s 32 (The Pack started the winning drive at their “32” and we had just moved from “32” 3 days before that ’67 title tilt in “Titletown” and I add CBS Sunday Morning better remember #32 Jim Brown, among others, as people that died in 2023) yard field goal as the Baltimore Colts broadcaster, that handed Dallas another heartbreaking loss in a title bid.

The great Bob Lilly, thoroughly disgusted, threw his helmet quite a distance after O’Brien’s historic boot.

In the next Supe, Lilly ran down Bob Griese (he Griese would engineer his Dolphins to wins in the next 2 Super Bowls) causing a big loss of yardage in the game in which, Dallas finally “titled.”