I remember watching this game thinking this might be the end of the Packers run. Boy was I wrong and glad of it. My entire family were Ram fans, it was a tough evening. Later that year we visited family in Michigan and I talked my Dad into stopping in Green Bay and had an opportunity to watch the Packers practice. Saw Vince Lombardi, who stepped down as coach pacing the sidelines. Afterwards,, waited outside the dressing room area to see the players. my Mom and I met Cherry Starr waiting for her husband to come out and when he did she introduced us to Bart Starr, what a day for a sixteen year old fan. The greatest team in NFL history
That is a AWESOME memory! Thanks for sharing it with us. I have a similar experience but mine happened with the Milwaukee Brewers. Back in the 70's the players would come out of the stadium after the games by the parking lot where their cars were parked. Kids and adults would stay after the games, and when the players emerged from the gate or office doors, kids would run to their heroes and get autographs. I was able to meet almost all of the Brewers from 1977 to 1983. Robin Yount, Paul Molitor, Gorman Thomas, Ben Oglive, Moose Haas, Cecil Cooper, Pete Vuckovich, Rollie Fingers, Jim Gantner, Charlie Moore, and more players. I was even lucky enough to meet Bob Uecker! He is as great as as funny as he is on TV! My FAVORITE Brewers player however was Mike Caldwell. At the end of the home schedule I begged my parents to let us stay for Autographs. They said okay and off we went. I can't remember exactly which player had just came out, but all of the kids raced towards him. I either had his autograph or I was hoping or waiting for someone else. Then sure enough Mike Caldwell came out. I was a left handed little leaguer. He was a left handed pitcher. He was my hero! I raced towards him. He saw me coming and held up his hand and gave me a shush or Shhh🤫motion.🤫 So I didn't say anything. We quietly walked quickly to his car. He mentioned that he wanted to get home to see his family before they left for their last away stand/games of the year. He signed my yearbook and tossed his dufflebag into the trunk of his car. Then he reached back inside and said thanks kid. He thanked me for not yelling and drawing attention to him. He usually ALWAYS spent time to sign autographs for kids. But he reached into his bag and put his home team GAME CAP on my head, and thanked me again! I LOST MY MIND!🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪 That year he finished as the runner up for the American League Cy Young Award. Ron Guidry of the Yankees won with a 25-3 record and a 1.74 ERA. It was the single best day of my life! Times were so different back then, so special, and absolutely incredible! I miss those days!
@@EdsterIII As an aside to Bob Uecker, Artie Lange and the late Norm Macdonald recalled a story where he invited them to hang out and watch him call a game. During this, while on the air, he was constantly hitting the mute button on his mic and saying some very funny, but completely inappropriate things, with people watching being none the wiser. Sometimes he'd even mute and unmute the mic in the same sentence. Not once did he mess up, but if he had, he'd either be fired, or at the very least end up in trouble.
I was born and bred a Rams fan, but I grew up knowing there was something special about Vince Lombardi and the Packers. I hated the years the rams lost in the playoffs, but losing to the Packers was nothing like losing to the Vikings because that sucked. In both cases it was old world football and the Rams did not do well in the hellish cold. My dad was an NFL fan and he revered Lombardi and I grew up on “Lombardi Time” and I have never been late and neither have my kids. There’s more to football than football. Just like everything else.
man, just love those old ram uniforms. and roman gabrielle was one of my favorite players of the 60s. i had favorite players and teams in both the nfl and afl. but being from KC the chief's were my favorite overall. the rams had some of the best records in the '67, '68 and '69 sesaons. but they just couldn't get over the playoff hump. i wished for a rams/chiefs' match-up in superbowl 4 but, alas, they were unable to break their bad luck streak in the playoffs.
My dad and I watched this on TV and when the Packers went up 24-20 my mom called us to dinner despite the fact that the game wasn’t over. I woke up early the next morning so I could grab the newspaper as soon as it hit our porch, hoping against hope that I would read about a miraculous Ram comeback. I didn’t get to actually see it until it was posted on UA-cam.
It was worth watching till the end to see Travis Williams carried off the field by the fans, in what some called the greatest game ever played at County Stadium.
omg as a life long ram fan i would of swore that the rams would of blown the comeback after blocking the punt. much to my surprise they scored. unbelievable, as a ram fan my heart has been broken so many times that it is being held together with scar tissue
@@leonsmith6639 I’ve become used to the new colors and like the “bone” all whites. They are like the uniform’s the Rams rocked in my childhood. But I can’t stand what they did to the horns. That was sacrilegious and the dumbest move of the Kroenke era.
@@Imtheverdant1 They changed the color and the design. Why change the best uniform in sports history? I just don't get it. I became a rams fan in the 1960s. Navy blue and white, with the horns. I am so upset with the change I don't follow the rams any more. very disappointed.
@@leonsmith6639 can you imagine the Cowboys changing the star or the Colts redesigning the horseshoe? It’s unthinkable they would spit in the face of tradition. So I thought the same of the Rams. It’s not enough to have me drop them. (They would have to leave LA for that to happen.) Pretty bonehead move for a team that spent 6billion on a stadium.
This remains one of the more confounding games in era of the 1960s. The Rams were coming off their big victory in their division showdown against the Colts the previous week, so perhaps being their first postseason game they were a bit spent in the emotion department. Yes, the Packers defense was top-notch but to totally dominate the Rams like they did and shut down their offense came as a total surprise. This game is not given a lot of attention in the long list of Packers' playoff victories but for me it remains one of their most complete efforts.
Football can be a counting game. And teams with truly great coaches, ie Lombardi, Belechek, Noll , Walsh and others, make you have to play a near flawless game to beat them. Your most seemingless mistake may be all they need. That was the case this game. The Rams miss a chip shot FG and the wormed turned and next thing you know, your beat. When they smell blood they would bury you. That was this Packer team in a nut shell. They were old, injured and everything else but they had guile . The next week was the ice bowl and it was an ugly game. I’ve seen it written their last drive against the Cowboys was the greatest test of determination in the history of profession sports. Can’t argue. Think about it, the Pack beating the Rams then Cowboys also ruined the Psyche of those teams for years after
Very true. Two heartbreaking road losses in the final seconds at both Baltimore & LA….they rested their regulars during the meaningless regular season finale loss at home against the lowly Steelers….a narrow 3 point loss to the underdog Vikings earlier in the season…in the Baltimore loss, both starting running backs (Pitts & Grabowski) went down to season ending injuries. Packers were simply remarkable in overcoming setbacks!@@graciemaemarie11jones16
This particular Rams squad was going on the road to meet the Packers with all their old pros who had plenty of playoff experience, the Packers win was no surprise at all
It would be a dream come true if you could restore the 1969 Divisional Round game with the Rams vs Vikings like this. It was one of the greatest Vikings games without a play by play call recording in known existence. It was a great childhood memory.
That was the year that I became a lifelong Vikings fan. The Rams began 11-0 and my brother's td celebrations sounded so irritating, I rooted for the first team to beat them. I think the Vikings had been 10-1. I saw a few highlights of them beating the Rams in the playoffs, then suffered through my dad loudly cheering as the Chiefs won SB IV. From then on, I always paid attention and followed the Vikings.
I was 7 years old living in Milwaukee and that game was blacked out to us. My dad cranked up the radio and we sat on that couch for 3 hours we didn't miss a play. The week after living in Milwaukee we got to watch ice bowl on TV while people in Green Bay were blacked out
That first game was one of the best NFL games I ever saw. The Rams had such a good team with so many good players and some great ones. Their running backs: Bass, Mason and Josephson; and their WRs in Casey and Snow were excellent, and Truax was a good TE. That game went down to the wire, it was a real thriller. And I think it was on a Saturday.
The Rams head coach was probably the best defensive coordinator in league history. Like Buddy Ryan, he also was the defensive coordinator of the Chicago Bears during their championship season in 1963.
A lot of Pro Football Hall of Fame members in this game Los Angeles Rams: Dan Reeves, George Allen, Tommy Mack, Merlin Olson, Deacon Jones. Green Bay Packers: Vince Lomardi, Bart Starr, Forrest Gregg, Ray Nitscki, Herb Adderly, Willie Davis, Willie Wood, Henry Jordan, Jerry Kramer.
As noted in previous comments, there is a note at the beginning of this video that states the regular season game highlights would be shown first. The playoff game starts at the 15:43 mark.
I used to believe I learned to love football because my uncle would tell me stories about watching the mid 60s Oakland Raiders practice. But, than my mom told me that most of her memories of her mom was of her sitting in front of the black and white television cracking open beers. Even had my mom bring her drinks from ‘fridge. Turns out football is in my blood.
I'm a Tom Landry-era Dallas Cowboys fan, since 1963. I remember watching the GB at LA game and even though the Rams had beaten every team that mattered, l was stunned somewhat when they defeated the mighty NFL AND Super Bowl champion Packers, and thinking this probably looked like the end of the road for Lombardi, Starr, and the awesome team they'd been since 1960. Little did I know that the Packers would go to defeat three teams, including my Cowboys, to become the greatest dynasty in NFL history.🏈
This shows how good the Packers were back then because the Rams were loaded. They blew out the Cowboys and the Colts in the regular season and beat the Packers 27-24. George Allen developed this reputation as a good coach who could not win in the post season. It was not until his 72 Redskins that he won a playoff game.
The game turned 180 degrees when Dave Robinson (not Adderley) blocked Gossett’s FG attempt. Rams, coming off huge wins against Baltimore and GB the previous two weeks, appeared invincible. They were 3 point favorites entering this game. That’s right, GB was a home underdog! Here, with a 7-0 lead and the ball on the Packer 10, it felt like a Ram blowout win could be developing. Instead, Robinson, who had a long history of making clutch plays in the biggest of games, once again saved the Pack.
@@MichaelForte-jn5pn Packers’ defense put tremendous pressure on Gabriel all day, sacking him 5 times for 44 yards. Two weeks earlier, they only got to him once, and lost in the final seconds. Meanwhile, LA’s fearsome foursome sacked Starr just once in the “rematch” This was the only playoff game in County Stadium history.
Rams lost one game in regular season as did the Colts. Green Bay lost 4 regular season games in '67. That's why the Rams were favored. The Rams also had already beaten Green Bay in the regular season.
@@johnbuie966Packers 4 defeats were extremely misleading…they led the Colts 10-0 in Baltimore with only 2 minutes remaining, losing 13-10, it required an onside kick recovery, GB lost their backfield early in the game (Pitts and Grabowski)….they led LA (in LA) 24-20 with seconds remaining until a blocked punt cost them the game, GB had already clinched their division while LA was fighting for their lives…they lost the next week’s game (final regular season game) to lowly Steelers because they rested their starters in preparation for the playoffs….so, 2 fluke loses on the road against elite foes plus a game they “mailed in”….in reality, they could be seen as a 12-1-1 team
Around this time I received a complete Rams uniform as a gift with Maxie Baughan’s #55 and Jim Kramer’s autobiography was the first book I read by my own choice. Rams are about to play the Packers on MNF.
The fact that a warm weather team with the league best record (Rams: 11-1-2) had to play in Milwaukee against the Packers (9-4-1) shows what a farce the rotation system was.
The NFL didn’t base playoff game location on records but rather on a an agreed to rotation between Eastern and Western Conference and in this case between the NFL divisions.
@@kbrewski1 Packer fans using a childish insult like "ewes" instead of acknowledging an obvious travesty. Priceless. And by the way, how did the Packers organization fair for the next 24 years after that season? Those "Pack will be Back" bumper stickers became the leagues' running joke.
I remember this game clearly. The Rams had beaten the Packers a few weeks before and were feeling good about their chances. Lombardi and Starr had other ideas.
Gregg couldn't use the open hand technique against Jones....and Jones was allowed to head slap...I like watching old films like these to see these match ups with future HOFers..
The title is inaccurate. This is the regular season game between the 2 teams. Not the playoff game before the Ice bowl. Packers won the playoff game easy 28-7.
Somebody mention this was a western division game, my memory may be flawed but I think the Rams played in the Coastal Division and the Packers played in the Central Division both in the Western Conference.
You are correct that it was classified as a western divisional game. The Green Bay Press-Gazette article, from December 26, 1967, phrased it this way: "...after the world champions dispatched the Los Angeles Rams in spectacular, 28-7 fashion to win the Western Conference title..." The playoff format they had wouldn't last long though and the idea of someone "winning the west" during the playoffs would soon be done away with.
1967 was the first of 3 years that the NFL divided into the 4 C's. The Century, Capitol, Central and Coastal Divisions. Looking forward the 55th Anniversary Game Monday night.
One thing that has always interested me is that, in those days, home field was not determined by the teams' records but were predetermined. Under current rules, the Rams/Packers playoff game would have been in LA, where the Rams had beaten the Packers a few weeks before. Who knows what would have happened if the Rams had had the home field in obviously better weather.
As a FYI, I'm going to be doing a retrospective on Lombardi's early years with the Packers. Lots of people have already done great videos on him, but I have a subscription to the archives of the Green Bay Press-Gazette, so it's going to be an extensive review of what people thought at the time, in addition, of course, to the usual overview where we look back in hindsight. My tentative schedule is first an overview of the Cowboys early Don Meredith years, then the 1957 NFL Championship Game between the Lions and the Browns and then the Lombardi overview, so I'm looking at that Packers video to come out either in late December or early January. Even though I have a soft spot for Lombardi, I want this channel to be an even look at the NFL in general, so I'm going to be doing stuff for Cowboys and Lions fans first before getting back to the Packers.
Great job, but I wish you hadn’t used that annoying crowd noise. Btw: I wonder why this game didn’t have full-game highlights or even a video of the game. Such a great Packers win.
In terms of the crowd noise, lesson learned. I wanted to fill the silence, but next time, I'll put in background music or something else rather than that. In terms of why they didn't do extended highlights, this is only a guess, but I'm thinking they had a 30-minute format in mind for television. In other words, for the two NFL playoff games that week (the Packers and Rams and then the Cowboys and Browns), they wanted to do less than 15 minutes of highlights for each game so they could both be shown on TV in a half hour format.
This was not a playoff game. This was my 1st NFL 🏈 game . ( 12-9-67). 2nd to last game of season. The playoff game was on 12-23-67 in Milwaukee. Rams 🐏 lost 28-7
This has both games. There is a note at the beginning of the video stating both games are featured. The playoff game begins at the 15:43 mark. Anyway, I hope you had fun at your first NFL game.
Had the Rams not blocked that Packer punt in the final minute, Green Bay likely holds on and the Baltimore Colts would be the Coastal Division champions by virtue of beating expansion New Orleans the next day in Baltimore. As it was, the 11-0-2 Colts met the 10-1-2 Rams in the season finale at the Coliseum and the Rams blew out the Colts, 34-10, to win the Coastal Division. This was the first season of the NFL using a tiebreak system, so the Rams won the tiebreaker by having beaten and tied the Colts during the season. The Colts' 11-1-2 mark in 1967 is still the best all-time for a non-playoff qualifier.
I have a subscription to the archives of the Green Bay Press-Gazette. They posted the full play-by-play in the paper the very next day. Unfortunately, they didn't do this for most games, so someone going through the archives of the 1960's expecting to find tons of full game accounts will be a bit disappointed, however I'm grateful we have this.
I too am very grateful for you finding this and putting on UA-cam. I have read so much about these two matchups between the teams, but have found little information on them. I am currently listening to your deep dive on the 1959 Packers and you have done an outstanding job.@@footballrestored171
It's my understanding it was for financial reasons. You have to remember that while the Packers were very popular in Green Bay, in the 60s the NFL was still growing as the Super Bowl era had just begun and a small city like Green Bay (as opposed to New York) would especially be under pressure to make things more accessible to a greater amount of Wisconsin fans. So, they would alternate back and forth between those two stadiums. Edit: As Seve Glider notes below, it was the Milwaukee County Stadium that had the issues, so I edited this comment to reflect that.
@@footballrestored171 You're wrong! The next week the Packers hosted the Cowboys at Lambeau Field in Green Bay which had a more seats than Milwaukee County Stadium. Milwaukee County Stadium was a dump.The end zone was less than 5 feet from the stands. Notice how close Bernie Casey was to the fans when he scored his touchdown.
@@seveglider8406 I stand corrected. From the website I read, it was a little ambiguous on how things were phrased on which stadium needed the upgrade. I'll edit my comment so as to not be misleading.
Unfortunately, not every transcript shows the time remaining on the clock after each play, but if I do another game and it's one that has this information, I can look into getting this added.
Los Angeles Rams would have won the Western Conference at 11-1-2 Cleveland and Dallas still would have had to have a playoff game because they both tied at 9-5
Not accurate. This was a regular season game in which the Packers already clinched the division title and were playing for nothing except Lombardi pride. They would meet the Rams again at county stadium in Milwaukee where Travis Williams would have a big day in Vince Lombardi scripture quote of "Run to Win".
This has both games in it. In the beginning of the video, there is text that explains this and then there is a timer that shortly appears on the upper right side of the screen that provides a countdown for when the playoff game begins. It may be a little confusing, but I put both games on here to make up for the lack of surviving video footage for the playoff game.
This video has both. The playoff game starts at the 15:43 mark. There is a note at the start of the video that the regular season game highlights would be shown first and then the playoff game.
The title of the video states it has the regular season match too and there is a note at the beginning of the video that says the regular season game would be shown first.
The Rams looked like a team that was running on empty. 3 missed fgs and not taking advantage of 4 Packer turnovers. If you want to be champs you have to beat champs.
The Packers were the type of team that knows how to win games when it really matters ....that's why they won 3 straight NFL titles and 2 Super Bowls...great teams find a way to win...
I remember watching this game thinking this might be the end of the Packers run. Boy was I wrong and glad of it. My entire family were Ram fans, it was a tough evening. Later that year we visited family in Michigan and I talked my Dad into stopping in Green Bay and had an opportunity to watch the Packers practice. Saw Vince Lombardi, who stepped down as coach pacing the sidelines. Afterwards,, waited outside the dressing room area to see the players. my Mom and I met Cherry Starr waiting for her husband to come out and when he did she introduced us to Bart Starr, what a day for a sixteen year old fan. The greatest team in NFL history
That is a AWESOME memory! Thanks for sharing it with us. I have a similar experience but mine happened with the Milwaukee Brewers. Back in the 70's the players would come out of the stadium after the games by the parking lot where their cars were parked. Kids and adults would stay after the games, and when the players emerged from the gate or office doors, kids would run to their heroes and get autographs. I was able to meet almost all of the Brewers from 1977 to 1983. Robin Yount, Paul Molitor, Gorman Thomas, Ben Oglive, Moose Haas, Cecil Cooper, Pete Vuckovich, Rollie Fingers, Jim Gantner, Charlie Moore, and more players. I was even lucky enough to meet Bob Uecker! He is as great as as funny as he is on TV! My FAVORITE Brewers player however was Mike Caldwell. At the end of the home schedule I begged my parents to let us stay for Autographs. They said okay and off we went. I can't remember exactly which player had just came out, but all of the kids raced towards him. I either had his autograph or I was hoping or waiting for someone else. Then sure enough Mike Caldwell came out. I was a left handed little leaguer. He was a left handed pitcher. He was my hero! I raced towards him. He saw me coming and held up his hand and gave me a shush or Shhh🤫motion.🤫 So I didn't say anything. We quietly walked quickly to his car. He mentioned that he wanted to get home to see his family before they left for their last away stand/games of the year. He signed my yearbook and tossed his dufflebag into the trunk of his car. Then he reached back inside and said thanks kid. He thanked me for not yelling and drawing attention to him. He usually ALWAYS spent time to sign autographs for kids. But he reached into his bag and put his home team GAME CAP on my head, and thanked me again! I LOST MY MIND!🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪 That year he finished as the runner up for the American League Cy Young Award. Ron Guidry of the Yankees won with a 25-3 record and a 1.74 ERA. It was the single best day of my life! Times were so different back then, so special, and absolutely incredible! I miss those days!
@@EdsterIII As an aside to Bob Uecker, Artie Lange and the late Norm Macdonald recalled a story where he invited them to hang out and watch him call a game. During this, while on the air, he was constantly hitting the mute button on his mic and saying some very funny, but completely inappropriate things, with people watching being none the wiser. Sometimes he'd even mute and unmute the mic in the same sentence. Not once did he mess up, but if he had, he'd either be fired, or at the very least end up in trouble.
Far from the greatest team green Bay noway
I was born and bred a Rams fan, but I grew up knowing there was something special about Vince Lombardi and the Packers. I hated the years the rams lost in the playoffs, but losing to the Packers was nothing like losing to the Vikings because that sucked. In both cases it was old world football and the Rams did not do well in the hellish cold. My dad was an NFL fan and he revered Lombardi and I grew up on “Lombardi Time” and I have never been late and neither have my kids. There’s more to football than football. Just like everything else.
@@zekelucente9702 Agreed.
man, just love those old ram uniforms. and roman gabrielle was one of my favorite players of the 60s. i had favorite players and teams in both the nfl and afl. but being from KC the chief's were my favorite overall.
the rams had some of the best records in the '67, '68 and '69 sesaons. but they just couldn't get over the playoff hump. i wished for a rams/chiefs' match-up in superbowl 4 but, alas, they were unable to break their bad luck streak in the playoffs.
You nailed it!
My dad and I watched this on TV and when the Packers went up 24-20 my mom called us to dinner despite the fact that the game wasn’t over. I woke up early the next morning so I could grab the newspaper as soon as it hit our porch, hoping against hope that I would read about a miraculous Ram comeback. I didn’t get to actually see it until it was posted on UA-cam.
Thank you for posting these old ones, when NFL was more realistic!!
very much appreciate the work that went into this.
It was worth watching till the end to see Travis Williams carried off the field by the fans, in what some called the greatest game ever played at County Stadium.
I know I’ll be grateful for what you post!
omg as a life long ram fan i would of swore that the rams would of blown the comeback after blocking the punt. much to my surprise they scored. unbelievable, as a ram fan my heart has been broken so many times that it is being held together with scar tissue
what do you think of the new uniforms? be personally I can't stand them.
@@leonsmith6639 I’ve become used to the new colors and like the “bone” all whites. They are like the uniform’s the Rams rocked in my childhood. But I can’t stand what they did to the horns. That was sacrilegious and the dumbest move of the Kroenke era.
@@Imtheverdant1 They changed the color and the design. Why change the best uniform in sports history? I just don't get it. I became a rams fan in the 1960s. Navy blue and white, with the horns. I am so upset with the change I don't follow the rams any more. very disappointed.
@@leonsmith6639 can you imagine the Cowboys changing the star or the Colts redesigning the horseshoe? It’s unthinkable they would spit in the face of tradition. So I thought the same of the Rams. It’s not enough to have me drop them. (They would have to leave LA for that to happen.) Pretty bonehead move for a team that spent 6billion on a stadium.
This remains one of the more confounding games in era of the 1960s. The Rams were coming off their big victory in their division showdown against the Colts the previous week, so perhaps being their first postseason game they were a bit spent in the emotion department. Yes, the Packers defense was top-notch but to totally dominate the Rams like they did and shut down their offense came as a total surprise. This game is not given a lot of attention in the long list of Packers' playoff victories but for me it remains one of their most complete efforts.
listen: green bay easily could have been 12-1-1.....not a surprise they handled the rams.not at all.
Football can be a counting game. And teams with truly great coaches, ie Lombardi, Belechek, Noll , Walsh and others, make you have to play a near flawless game to beat them. Your most seemingless mistake may be all they need. That was the case this game. The Rams miss a chip shot FG and the wormed turned and next thing you know, your beat. When they smell blood they would bury you. That was this Packer team in a nut shell. They were old, injured and everything else but they had guile . The next week was the ice bowl and it was an ugly game. I’ve seen it written their last drive against the Cowboys was the greatest test of determination in the history of profession sports. Can’t argue. Think about it, the Pack beating the Rams then Cowboys also ruined the Psyche of those teams for years after
Very true.
Two heartbreaking road losses in the final seconds at both Baltimore & LA….they rested their regulars during the meaningless regular season finale loss at home against the lowly Steelers….a narrow 3 point loss to the underdog Vikings earlier in the season…in the Baltimore loss, both starting running backs (Pitts & Grabowski) went down to season ending injuries.
Packers were simply remarkable in overcoming setbacks!@@graciemaemarie11jones16
This particular Rams squad was going on the road to meet the Packers with all their old pros who had plenty of playoff experience, the Packers win was no surprise at all
It would be a dream come true if you could restore the 1969 Divisional Round game with the Rams vs Vikings like this. It was one of the greatest Vikings games without a play by play call recording in known existence. It was a great childhood memory.
That was the year that I became a lifelong Vikings fan. The Rams began 11-0 and my brother's td celebrations sounded so irritating, I rooted for the first team to beat them. I think the Vikings had been 10-1. I saw a few highlights of them beating the Rams in the playoffs, then suffered through my dad loudly cheering as the Chiefs won SB IV. From then on, I always paid attention and followed the Vikings.
I was 7 years old living in Milwaukee and that game was blacked out to us. My dad cranked up the radio and we sat on that couch for 3 hours we didn't miss a play. The week after living in Milwaukee we got to watch ice bowl on TV while people in Green Bay were blacked out
That first game was one of the best NFL games I ever saw. The Rams had such a good team with so many good players and some great ones. Their running backs: Bass, Mason and Josephson; and their WRs in Casey and Snow were excellent, and Truax was a good TE. That game went down to the wire, it was a real thriller. And I think it was on a Saturday.
The Rams head coach was probably the best defensive coordinator in league history. Like Buddy Ryan, he also was the defensive coordinator of the Chicago Bears during their championship season in 1963.
George Allen
@@stevecvino My favorite human being as a head coach of any sport. His players absolutely loved him.
I saw this game and will never forget it and who I was with
RIP from Detroit. Y’all had a good ride.
A lot of Pro Football Hall of Fame members in this game
Los Angeles Rams: Dan Reeves, George Allen, Tommy Mack, Merlin Olson, Deacon Jones.
Green Bay Packers: Vince Lomardi, Bart Starr, Forrest Gregg, Ray Nitscki, Herb Adderly, Willie Davis, Willie Wood, Henry Jordan, Jerry Kramer.
As noted in previous comments, there is a note at the beginning of this video that states the regular season game highlights would be shown first. The playoff game starts at the 15:43 mark.
I used to believe I learned to love football because my uncle would tell me stories about watching the mid 60s Oakland Raiders practice. But, than my mom told me that most of her memories of her mom was of her sitting in front of the black and white television cracking open beers. Even had my mom bring her drinks from ‘fridge. Turns out football is in my blood.
I'm a Tom Landry-era Dallas Cowboys fan, since 1963.
I remember watching the GB at LA game and even though the Rams had beaten every team that mattered, l was stunned somewhat when they defeated the mighty NFL AND Super Bowl champion Packers, and thinking this probably looked like the end of the road for Lombardi, Starr, and the awesome team they'd been since 1960. Little did I know that the Packers would go to defeat three teams, including my Cowboys, to become the greatest dynasty in NFL history.🏈
This shows how good the Packers were back then because the Rams were loaded.
They blew out the Cowboys and the Colts in the regular season and beat the Packers 27-24.
George Allen developed this reputation as a good coach who could not win in the post season. It was not until his 72 Redskins that he won a playoff game.
2 playoff games and that was it
The game turned 180 degrees when Dave Robinson (not Adderley) blocked Gossett’s FG attempt.
Rams, coming off huge wins against Baltimore and GB the previous two weeks, appeared invincible. They were 3 point favorites entering this game. That’s right, GB was a home underdog!
Here, with a 7-0 lead and the ball on the Packer 10, it felt like a Ram blowout win could be developing. Instead, Robinson, who had a long history of making clutch plays in the biggest of games, once again saved the Pack.
Great teams find a way to win....the Packers were not the team they were in 65 and 66 but they would find ways to get it done..
@@MichaelForte-jn5pn Packers’ defense put tremendous pressure on Gabriel all day, sacking him 5 times for 44 yards. Two weeks earlier, they only got to him once, and lost in the final seconds. Meanwhile, LA’s fearsome foursome sacked Starr just once in the “rematch” This was the only playoff game in County Stadium history.
Rams lost one game in regular season as did the Colts. Green Bay lost 4 regular season games in '67. That's why the Rams were favored. The Rams also had already beaten Green Bay in the regular season.
@@johnbuie966Packers 4 defeats were extremely misleading…they led the Colts 10-0 in Baltimore with only 2 minutes remaining, losing 13-10, it required an onside kick recovery, GB lost their backfield early in the game (Pitts and Grabowski)….they led LA (in LA) 24-20 with seconds remaining until a blocked punt cost them the game, GB had already clinched their division while LA was fighting for their lives…they lost the next week’s game (final regular season game) to lowly Steelers because they rested their starters in preparation for the playoffs….so, 2 fluke loses on the road against elite foes plus a game they “mailed in”….in reality, they could be seen as a 12-1-1 team
Around this time I received a complete Rams uniform as a gift with Maxie Baughan’s #55 and Jim Kramer’s autobiography was the first book I read by my own choice. Rams are about to play the Packers on MNF.
Great post....thanks
The greatest franchise in NFL history .
Packers second Playoff game in Milwaukee. First was in 1939 NFL title game against the Giants at the State Fairgrounds.
My dad was 7 years old and was at this game with my grampa and uncle's
The fact that a warm weather team with the league best record (Rams: 11-1-2) had to play in Milwaukee against the Packers (9-4-1) shows what a farce the rotation system was.
It definitely had its flaws and one of the biggest ones from that time period was the '67 Colts being 11-1-2 and missing the playoffs.
listen, the 9-4-1 record was very deceiving
The NFL didn’t base playoff game location on records but rather on a an agreed to rotation between Eastern and Western Conference and in this case between the NFL divisions.
The Ewes fans still whining about the playoff format 57 years later. Priceless.
@@kbrewski1 Packer fans using a childish insult like "ewes" instead of acknowledging an obvious travesty. Priceless. And by the way, how did the Packers organization fair for the next 24 years after that season? Those "Pack will be Back" bumper stickers became the leagues' running joke.
I remember this game clearly. The Rams had beaten the Packers a few weeks before and were feeling good about their chances. Lombardi and Starr had other ideas.
Dang! Nice block by Travis Williams.
Gregg vs. Jones was a matchup of the best at their positions. If Gregg couldn't stop Jones's pursuit, who could?
Gregg couldn't use the open hand technique against Jones....and Jones was allowed to head slap...I like watching old films like these to see these match ups with future HOFers..
Who would ever thought about what would happen the following weekend when the temperature went to -13 and they played the Dallas Cowboys.
Interestingly enough, it was 13 degrees above zero when this game was played.
The title is inaccurate.
This is the regular season game between the 2 teams.
Not the playoff game before the Ice bowl.
Packers won the playoff game easy 28-7.
It's such a different game...
The most alarming difference between then and now is how much the kickers have improved.
This game was played in Milwaukee, the only time the Packers ever played a home playoff game outside of Green Bay.
Not true. If fact, the first playoff game they ever played in Green Bay was the 1961 NFL tittle game
@@jebarr1 Try reading his comment again. It was the only time the Packers played a home playoff game OUTSIDE OF GREEN BAY
Incorrect. The 1939 nfl tittle game against the giants was played at the state fairgrounds in Milwaukee@@dhart8451
The 1939 NFL title game was played in Milwaukee at the State Fairgrounds . Pack beat the Giants 27-0. So, you’re still wrong@@dhart8451
Not true. 1939 NFLTittle game was played there@@dhart8451
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Glad you liked it.
Somebody mention this was a western division game, my memory may be flawed but I think the Rams played in the Coastal Division and the Packers played in the Central Division both in the Western Conference.
You are correct that it was classified as a western divisional game. The Green Bay Press-Gazette article, from December 26, 1967, phrased it this way: "...after the world champions dispatched the Los Angeles Rams in spectacular, 28-7 fashion to win the Western Conference title..." The playoff format they had wouldn't last long though and the idea of someone "winning the west" during the playoffs would soon be done away with.
1967 was the first of 3 years that the NFL divided into the 4 C's. The Century, Capitol, Central and Coastal Divisions. Looking forward the 55th Anniversary Game Monday night.
It was so strange geographically. The Rams and Colts were in the same division.
One thing that has always interested me is that, in those days, home field was not determined by the teams' records but were predetermined. Under current rules, the Rams/Packers playoff game would have been in LA, where the Rams had beaten the Packers a few weeks before. Who knows what would have happened if the Rams had had the home field in obviously better weather.
@@marcschneider4845 The Rams of the 60s are especially interesting, because they are largely forgotten today, but they could play.
As a FYI, I'm going to be doing a retrospective on Lombardi's early years with the Packers. Lots of people have already done great videos on him, but I have a subscription to the archives of the Green Bay Press-Gazette, so it's going to be an extensive review of what people thought at the time, in addition, of course, to the usual overview where we look back in hindsight. My tentative schedule is first an overview of the Cowboys early Don Meredith years, then the 1957 NFL Championship Game between the Lions and the Browns and then the Lombardi overview, so I'm looking at that Packers video to come out either in late December or early January. Even though I have a soft spot for Lombardi, I want this channel to be an even look at the NFL in general, so I'm going to be doing stuff for Cowboys and Lions fans first before getting back to the Packers.
Great job, but I wish you hadn’t used that annoying crowd noise. Btw: I wonder why this game didn’t have full-game highlights or even a video of the game. Such a great Packers win.
In terms of the crowd noise, lesson learned. I wanted to fill the silence, but next time, I'll put in background music or something else rather than that. In terms of why they didn't do extended highlights, this is only a guess, but I'm thinking they had a 30-minute format in mind for television. In other words, for the two NFL playoff games that week (the Packers and Rams and then the Cowboys and Browns), they wanted to do less than 15 minutes of highlights for each game so they could both be shown on TV in a half hour format.
This was not a playoff game. This was my 1st NFL 🏈 game . ( 12-9-67). 2nd to last game of season. The playoff game was on 12-23-67 in Milwaukee. Rams 🐏 lost 28-7
This has both games. There is a note at the beginning of the video stating both games are featured. The playoff game begins at the 15:43 mark. Anyway, I hope you had fun at your first NFL game.
This was during the period when the season was only twelve games.
No, the NFL had been playing a 14-game schedule since 1961.
Had the Rams not blocked that Packer punt in the final minute, Green Bay likely holds on and the Baltimore Colts would be the Coastal Division champions by virtue of beating expansion New Orleans the next day in Baltimore. As it was, the 11-0-2 Colts met the 10-1-2 Rams in the season finale at the Coliseum and the Rams blew out the Colts, 34-10, to win the Coastal Division. This was the first season of the NFL using a tiebreak system, so the Rams won the tiebreaker by having beaten and tied the Colts during the season.
The Colts' 11-1-2 mark in 1967 is still the best all-time for a non-playoff qualifier.
This is confusing. So you stuck the regular season game in LA first? Obviously sunny weather and the LA Coliseum Olympic track around the field.
Not confusing, it's the regular season game, and the playoff game 2 weeks later
THKS!
Sure thing.
First thanks for this great moment of NFL history. Where did you find the play by play?
I have a subscription to the archives of the Green Bay Press-Gazette. They posted the full play-by-play in the paper the very next day. Unfortunately, they didn't do this for most games, so someone going through the archives of the 1960's expecting to find tons of full game accounts will be a bit disappointed, however I'm grateful we have this.
I too am very grateful for you finding this and putting on UA-cam. I have read so much about these two matchups between the teams, but have found little information on them. I am currently listening to your deep dive on the 1959 Packers and you have done an outstanding job.@@footballrestored171
Deacon Jones! Merlin Olsen. Ray fucking Nitschke!!
Exactly
This was a game I thought the Lambs had a chance of winning. Roman Gabriel nullified all of that just by his very presence.
Anybody know why this game was played in Milwaukee instead at Lambeau like the Ice Bowl was.
It's my understanding it was for financial reasons. You have to remember that while the Packers were very popular in Green Bay, in the 60s the NFL was still growing as the Super Bowl era had just begun and a small city like Green Bay (as opposed to New York) would especially be under pressure to make things more accessible to a greater amount of Wisconsin fans. So, they would alternate back and forth between those two stadiums. Edit: As Seve Glider notes below, it was the Milwaukee County Stadium that had the issues, so I edited this comment to reflect that.
@@footballrestored171 You're wrong! The next week the Packers hosted the Cowboys at Lambeau Field in Green Bay which had a more seats than Milwaukee County Stadium. Milwaukee County Stadium was a dump.The end zone was less than 5 feet from the stands. Notice how close Bernie Casey was to the fans when he scored his touchdown.
@@seveglider8406 I stand corrected. From the website I read, it was a little ambiguous on how things were phrased on which stadium needed the upgrade. I'll edit my comment so as to not be misleading.
@@footballrestored171 Thank You!
I cant believe holding use to be 15 yards!
I much prefer to see the game clock VS being told time remaining
Unfortunately, not every transcript shows the time remaining on the clock after each play, but if I do another game and it's one that has this information, I can look into getting this added.
Had the NFL not split the league into 4 divisions for 1967 season the Packers would not have even been in the playoffs.
Los Angeles Rams would have won the Western Conference at 11-1-2 Cleveland and Dallas still would have had to have a playoff game because they both tied at 9-5
Not accurate. This was a regular season game in which the Packers already clinched the division title and were playing for nothing except Lombardi pride. They would meet the Rams again at county stadium in Milwaukee where Travis Williams would have a big day in Vince Lombardi scripture quote of "Run to Win".
This has both games in it. In the beginning of the video, there is text that explains this and then there is a timer that shortly appears on the upper right side of the screen that provides a countdown for when the playoff game begins. It may be a little confusing, but I put both games on here to make up for the lack of surviving video footage for the playoff game.
Some of that film was taken from the game played in LA earlier that year
Yes. The note at the beginning of the video states the highlights from the regular season match would be shown first for historical context.
To say that this video SUCKS would be an understatement.
This is NOT the western conference playoff game. This is from the regular season matchup a couple ofcweeks prior.
This video has both. The playoff game starts at the 15:43 mark. There is a note at the start of the video that the regular season game highlights would be shown first and then the playoff game.
Rams best the pack
Game played in Millwaukee, not Green Bay. County Stadium, home of the Braves after they moved from Boston.
Not anymore, the Braves were gone by 1967
This video is mislabeled. The 1967 playoff was in Green Bay not LA. This is a regular season game in 67. The Pack won 28-7.
The title of the video states it has the regular season match too and there is a note at the beginning of the video that says the regular season game would be shown first.
@@footballrestored171 I saw just the first few minutes of the video.
@@michaelfalsia6062 No worries. The way the video was labeled could have been a bit confusing. Anyway, thanks for commenting!
…And the western conference championship was played in County Stadium, Milwaukee.
Milwaukee, it wasn't in Green Bay
The Rams looked like a team that was running on empty. 3 missed fgs and not taking advantage of 4 Packer turnovers. If you want to be champs you have to beat champs.
The Packers were the type of team that knows how to win games when it really matters ....that's why they won 3 straight NFL titles and 2 Super Bowls...great teams find a way to win...
So glad that the Lambs got their ass kicked on that day. The 49ers were stupid to trade away Bernie Casey.
The Niners never won anything when Bernie Casey was with the team