I was at this game , an 11 year old kid with my Dad and two brothers . When you’re that age , you don’t realize the significance of what you’re watching , just that you’re cold , you want your team to win , and to go home and warm up . Now at age 64 , still a die-hard Packer fan , I rank that memory up with the birth of my children . Never to be duplicated .
I heard that one person died and I guess of a heart attack during the game. That’s quite a memory and I have always liked the Packers because of their small town big play style
3:09 in this film; That image of diehard fans sitting in the open stadium, HOURS before the game even starts. They must have been really frozen by the end of the game, unless they left early. Thanks for sharing that memory. I was about to turn 9 when the Ice Bowl was played, and still a year before I got hooked on football. I became a Packer fan when I read Bart Starr's (paperback) biography in the 4th grade. I watch these highlights and I can name every player on the Packers roster.
This line is exactly WHY there needs to be a Vince Lombardi movie. I kid you not a Vince Lombardi movie would be Awesome and it could even be an Oscar winner with the right director.
What a great coach. Knows he isn't on the field to understand the co ditions and asks the players multiple plays in a row what to run even after they failed the first time. That's a leader.
Favorite Quote, If you are 10 min. early, you are on time, if you are on time, you are 10 min. late, if you are 10 Min. late... Don't bother showing up
I used Jerry Kramer and Dick Schaap's "Instant Replay" for book reports from the early 70s through my college days, a decade later. "Lombardi Time" was referenced there, and elsewhere, as 15 min. ahead of the stated start time.
+Brad Brown Calling the Seahawks (or any team) the team of the decade for the 2010's is about 5 years premature. They need to win about 2 more to claim it.
you need to think of bigger OF ALL TIME, pats are nice now cuz of bellicheat, but would've never stood a chance against a team like walsch, lombardi, or landry. John Madden can attest to that.
I missed the ice bowl.I did get to see most of the Western Conf. div.victory the week before,but I was only 8 and my mom wasn't into football.my dad was in Vietnam.Two years later,he was stationed at the Pentagon,and we could get tickets for Redskin games at Ft.McNair,if you were willing to get there real early.The first NFL game I saw was between Washington and Dallas at RFK in Nov.1969.The head coach for Dallas was of course Tom Landry.The head coach for Washington was..........Vince Lombardi.I consider myself extremely fortunate.
I remember watching the Ice Bowl in our living room in Newark, Delaware. After the game my family went trudging through the snow somewhere. I forget where.
To be fair, Lombardi was probably right to leave after Super Bowl II. I mean, look at him. The stress of being a coach, that obsession to win and be the best at what you do, the long hours away from family, it really takes a toll on you.
+BUCK NUT 330 i wonder how any receivers caught anything i mean you ever try to catch a cold football in cold weather when your hands are cold? it just kills your hands
+inbredagogo As hard to believe that at the time he had less than three years to live. Gosh I miss those days of great football and those who played the game back then.
+loyaldude10 the only thing that would have made the Ice Bowl worse was if they would have got a bunch of snow with it. Odd in that when I was living in Ohio the coldest day I remember which was about -22, it was a bright sunshiny day, lol.
+Mark Muffs You don't usually get much snow when it is that cold, because the air can't hold enough moisture for snow. It snows heavy when the temp is within about 10 degrees of freezing. And it is actually colder to be out in it when it is right around freezing, because everything gets wet. When it is super cold everything is dry. The frozen solid field would be like concrete, compared to cold mud, but a different kind of cold from 30 degrees and soaking wet.
+Stacie45 Actually i knew that from living in Ohio, I was just saying "what if". The temps I always watched closely was about 29 to 32 which was ripe for freezing rain which is more of a bear to deal with than snow. Snow is negotiable, ice is not.
@@jeremythompson9122 It should be called The Belichick Trophy, not the Lombardi Trophy. 1) Bellichick never cheated. Goodell redefined terms in the rules after the fact to take the Pats' picks away in '07 and completely fabricated the "deflation" claims. Tons of scientific evidence has exonerated the Patriots for that including the experiments done by Ainissa Ramirez. 2) Lombardi was implicated in the biggest cheating scandal in the history of football-- at the very least, he let cadets cheat on military examinations, and there is significant evidence that he tampered with military exams to try to win at Westpoint. It took decades for Westpoint football to recover, and it had to expel 43 of 45 players.
@@Icyhotboo When Lombardi was an assistant coach at Westpoint, roughly 95% of the players were kicked out for cheating. Lombardi wrote in his book that the head coach's decision to not resign after that, even when his own son was involved in the cheating, was noble and taught him "perseverance." For these clowns to use Lombardi just as an excuse to go after Belichick and Brady with fake scandals based on junk science is absurd.
I think you have to throw Paul Brown in the mix for GOAT coach...the Browns won multiple world championships too and Paul Brown's passing game was so advanced in the 50's and 60's and 70's that Bill Walsh pretty much stole it and put his "west coast offense" stamp on it.
The game-time temperature at Lambeau Field was about −15 °F (−26 °C), with an average wind chill around −48 °F (−44 °C); That's brutally cold even for a Canadian.
to me this remains the greatest pro football game ever.-15 degrees wind chill -40 and Dallas took it to the last play.the nfl would postpone the game today,it was a much better product back in 1967.
Ken Ryder The Cowboys were branded as choke artists after this game by the press. They had to put up with hearing that until they beat the Miami Dolphins in SB VI.
My grandfather was at the Ice Bowl, he saw that iconic play on the 1 yard line. I’ve asked my dad before what my grandpa said about the game. He told me “that was a rough game to watch. I had a flask full of bourbon, and I drank the whole thing but I still felt cold”
The 1950's Giants had Vince Lombardi as offensive coordinator and Tom Landry as defensive coordinator. Makes you wonder how that team only won one NFL Championship(1956). Lombardi's last game with the Giants was the 1958 NFL Championship Game...the overtime thriller vs. the Baltimore Colts
"We reach down, and we got a little bit of Lombardi".......... What an inspiration that man must have been! I'm not sure I would have wanted to play for him, but then again, he inspired so many people.
You got to admit it's pretty cool that Jerry Kramer gets to talk about that last play. That last shot when Starr goes in you look at that picture there are seven Hall of famers in that picture.
The story chronicled above is about more than just a game, a team.......a coach. It is about a shining example of what it takes to be a winner. Total commitment, total concentration, total perseverance in the face of excruciating pain, and the absolute refusal to be defeated. It was about a team held together by love......TOUGH love......given by a man who will always rank number one as a leader of men, and who is an example of what can be achieved in ANY field of endeavour in our great and free nation . Vince Lombardi and his Packers served as a life long inspiration for me, and I can honestly say that whatever small successes I've had in life were because of the example of greatness I witnessed that day on that frozen field in 1967.
John Foster well said I’m 40 years old long removed from coach Lombardi’s glory days ... yet his work ethic and example remains .... he is truly one of my hero’s ... along with many players on that team ...
I went to Lambeau Atrium in October and it's such a wondrous thing to see everything he and Curly Lambeau built :) I have Italian heritage from Lombardy so perhaps Coach Lombardi and I are family!
Wow, 5 titles in 9 seasons. I even remember watching a couple of them with my dad. Fifty years later I've seen Alabama's Coach Nick Saban do the same in college football. Man am I getting old.
I remember reading that when he heard Chuck Noll was made Head Coach of the Steelers in '69 he predicted that Pittsburgh was going to be the next dynasty in the NFL.
It was an honor to be a "Teenage Stock-boy" at Larry's Piggly Wiggly in Kaukauna, WI., and go to the "Ice Bowl" with a free ticket given to me by the store Manager & Owner. I was given a ticket to a "Historic NFC-Championship game as Vince Lombardi guided the Packers to Victory!" God has guided my life with a love for the game of football. Father Mark Schommer a native of Kaukauna was a "Packers-Team Chaplin and a family-friend who played for the Packers" as a "Walk-on from UW-Stevens Point." Later, I was a similar story as a "Walk-on Player" at UW-Stout! Love for football came from a "Love" for the Packers and the demanding rough-game. The "Ice-Bowl defines a Frozen-Tundra as TITLE TOWN-USA!" In later years I was a "Packers-Ticket-Taker" from 1977 to 1987 and that was an "Honor" for this game! T J (Tom) Vanderloop, Author, Technology-Instructor, A Manufacturing-Consultant & Community-Leader (AWS & SME)
The epitome of a team and a coach. During his nine seasons in Green Bay, Vince Lombardi elevated the Packers to unprecedented stature as the games greatest team. Lombardi was so much more than a coach. He was the very symbol of dedication and striving to attain. In any pursuit of man. It is also a proven fact that Lombardi is footballs only coach that could take any team and win. IMMEDIATELY!!! Bill Walsh, Tom Landry, Chuck Noll and nearly every other coaching icon struggled miserably at the onset of their careers. Lombardi took a Green Bay team that was almost out of business. In two years they were playing for the title. In his one season with a horrendous Washington Redskins team he turned them into winners. Lombardi was so good he even coached a High School Basketball team to a State Title!! This despite having almost no basic knowledge of the game. He took a Basketball Manual, used it as a guide and drove his team to victory after victory. Lombardis only weakness was that he was so driven it compromised his well being. During his reign however, no coach will ever match him. And no coach ever will. Five Championships in seven seasons. Choke on that Bill Belichick!!
One of the beauties of sports is the top dog, (Packers) and the young guns trying to knock them off (Cowboys)! We see this often, and most times it delivers a high impact, memorable game. Add in a win or go home scenario and you get "classics"! Its what made the NFL what it is today. When you break it down, these games stay with us. The Ice Bowl will forever be a game that will be a benchmark game. The real tragedy of this game is not how the Cowboys lost, but who erased this game for CBS? You can't tell me that when it was over someone didn't call New York and say, "save this"? Someone, has got to have a copy of this somewhere. If the NFL Network played "The Ice Bowl" like they did Super Bowl I it really might just break some ratings records.
The networks in those days did a very poor job of archiving their product. NBC unfortunately either deleted, or taped over many Johnny Carson Tonight Shows that were done in NYC prior to the show moving west, and a ton of great material is now lost forever. It's a damned shame someone erased the videotape of this game, but it doesn't surprise me. NFL films, though, does have a lot of great footage of it.
+Tim Tebow's Left Arm Have you actually watched old football games? They're boring as fuck, low scoring, grindy affairs. At least the defensemen were allowed to actually hit people though without being penalized.
There are many "old football games online" which show they were much more defense and running-oriented. This game was much more, though, about arguably the greatest human test of will - not just football, but being able to perform as world class athletes in any way, shape or form - in the harshest conditions any game in any major team sport worldwide has ever led world-class athletes to endure. There was the storyline of the previous year's championship game, for which Dallas was aiming for pain-filled revenge. Then there was the greatest storyline - the Packers playing for an un-matched third straight league championship and the final game Vince Lombardi would ever coach at home for the Packers. Add the incredible drama of how the game ended. Put those factors together..best...game...ever.
Tim Tebow's Left Arm Eh, to each their own I guess. I preferred modern football before the rules protecting receivers and QB's came into effect. 90's and early 2000's. Needed a balanced offense and good defense to win. Wideouts would get punished for going over the middle, and dominant defenses could impact the game just as much as QB's. With the modern ruled the best QB's can just have their way and there's very little the defense can even do without being penalized. Can you imagine Brady trying to do his thing against the '85 Bears playing by the old rules? He wouldn't make it through one half.
The quick-rhythm passing game he's become an expert at? He and the modern Pats might tear up the '85 Bears. Same with Rodgers and company at their best (not recent weeks). But few would.
Tim Tebow's Left Arm With old rules linebackers and safeties would be allowed to drill receivers on slants and hitches. Take a look at Torry Holts fingers, you think Edelman's bitch ass is coming over the middle for check down passes 20 times a game? No way in hell. Furthermore as a pass rusher you were allowed to let your momentum carry you through after the QB released the ball. Brady would die.
When I was 9 years old, I wrote a letter to Coach Lombardi asking if he could send me a team picture. Guess what I got- Individual autographed 8x10 glossies of every starting Player! My goodness, did I love him and the Packers! Still do.
The game saw the goal posts come down and many souvenirs are taken out of Lambeau Field. A welding torch was brought onto the field and a welder cut many 12-inch "Goal Post" segments for the fans. A number of plywood green and gold painted helmets also left the field as 1967 trophies for the fans. Title town was energized and warm with "Community Support as the 12th Player" making history. T J (Tom) Vanderloop, An Author, Teacher and a Former Packer Ticket-taker (1977 to 1986) at Lambeau
I was a Packer fan at the "Ice Bowl" and thank "Larry's Piggly Wiggly" for their Packer-Ticket" as a stock-boy. This game was an epic victory for the 3-time World Champion Packers. Vice Lombardi was the reason the "Team-Won." T J (Tom) Vanderloop, Author, Teacher & Manufacturing Consultant. AWS & SME Member to Industry,
Both are great. Let's not build someone up by putting others down. Lombardi died at 57, having won 5 titles. When Belichick was 57, he won 3 Super Bowls. Starr and Brady were both late round draft picks, with Bart being an 17th rounder. Brady, of course, a 6th round pick.
This was football at its best. No Official Reviews! No TV Time Outs! No weird singer at half time! A catch was a catch! And they had kick off returns! Yes kids, kick off returns. Now the commercials are more important than the game. The ref's are just for looks and the thought of a player getting his bell rung is grounds to end the NFL all together.
44excalibur Hate to be a Bogart, but technically that’s not true. The NFL back in those days had a postseason runner up Bowl game for the teams that finished second in each conference. Green Bay lost at least one of these, in 1964 against St. Louis.
@Jed Belcher That technically doesn't count because that was prior to postseason football. Back in those days the Championship Game was the only game that mattered prior to the Super Bowl era. And after the loss to the Eagles, Lombardi coached the Packers to a record nine postseason game win streak, which wasn't broken until Bill Belichick led the Patriots to ten straight postseason wins from 2002-2006.
RJ Walker in Jerry Kramer’s Instant Replay, he quotes Lombardi’s characterization of this ‘Bowl’ game: “A rinky-dink game played by rinky-dink teams in a rinky-dink city.” As we know, he had no use for anything other than first place. I think it was dropped once the NFL split the conferences in ‘67, if not it went into the dustbin of NFL history when the AFL & NFL merged in 1970.
@@balrog322 I just read the history of it. It was discontinued when the AFL and NFL merged in 1970 as you last said. So it was still around in 1968 and 69. I should have remembered that because I was 11 years old then and really into football. I suspect those games were not televised nationally though, if at all. So I probably never saw one which would explain it.
+Truebells24 absolutely.....did you know it was lombardi"s idea to place either wires or tubes of hot water under Lambeau Field to keep the field from freezing...well that plan failed, somehow the water pipes froze, freezing the field....Lombardi shouldered full responsiblilty if the Packers would have lost that game, He can thank his offensive line and Bart Starr.........
It's astonishing how many people sleep on that fact. The only three peat in NFL history, and due to a Bart Starr-led drive in a show of precision passing. He didn't throw a lot, but almost every pass was a dagger in the heart of the opponent. I'm still fuming Bart Starr was left off the Top 100 team.
Knew exactly where I was when the news of Vin's death was broadcast on the radio: the Ashtabula (Ohio) exit on Interstate 90 east of Cleveland. As a lifelong Cheesehead, I will always regard Vin has my favorite Wisconsin sports hero.
He really was the best coach ever they don't just name a trophy after anyone
+Will Priest Lombardi was the crowning point of NFL coaching.
+wolfjak more like belli
+wolfjak agreed
Best coaches. Lombardi. Shula. Shula might actually be better but it's close.
+iXeronax Shula? His tenure in the 80's and 90's say otherwise. I can't believe no one has said Bill Walsh.
"Well then run it! And let's get the hell out of here!" "If you can't gain a yard, THEN YOU DON'T DESERVE TO BE CHAMPIONS!"
fucking legendary.
If only the Seahawks had seen this late in the 4th during their last superbowl appearance..
Same thing goes for the Seahawks
He was an over rated head coach.
ginzod LOL.
SSJ Carl I think he was.........He was a great GM....;-)
I was at this game , an 11 year old kid with my Dad and two brothers . When you’re that age , you don’t realize the significance of what you’re watching , just that you’re cold , you want your team to win , and to go home and warm up . Now at age 64 , still a die-hard Packer fan , I rank that memory up with the birth of my children . Never to be duplicated .
I heard that one person died and I guess of a heart attack during the game. That’s quite a memory and I have always liked the Packers because of their small town big play style
That is awesome ! I was 12 watching that game with my grandfather, I was in a warmer environment. I guess you folks in GB grow up in that environment.
3:09 in this film; That image of diehard fans sitting in the open stadium, HOURS before the game even starts.
They must have been really frozen by the end of the game, unless they left early.
Thanks for sharing that memory. I was about to turn 9 when the Ice Bowl was played, and still a year before I got hooked on football. I became a Packer fan when I read Bart Starr's (paperback) biography in the 4th grade.
I watch these highlights and I can name every player on the Packers roster.
The fact you grow up in Wisconsin is a great feat in it self let alone being at that game 🤣🤣🤣🙏🏾
@@bjones140very funny 🤣
THEN LET'S RUN THAT PLAY AND GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE.
CLASSIC.
This line is exactly WHY there needs to be a Vince Lombardi movie. I kid you not a Vince Lombardi movie would be Awesome and it could even be an Oscar winner with the right director.
@@paullangland7559that would be a great movie. Idk if there is anyone actor good enough to be Mr.Lombardi in a film.
What a great coach. Knows he isn't on the field to understand the co ditions and asks the players multiple plays in a row what to run even after they failed the first time. That's a leader.
Favorite Quote, If you are 10 min. early, you are on time, if you are on time, you are 10 min. late, if you are 10 Min. late... Don't bother showing up
+djn3131 I like "winning isn't everything,...it's the only thing."
djn3131 lmao I am 2 years late
That's called Lombardi time.
Man, do I love that quote. Gonna use it. A lot.
I used Jerry Kramer and Dick Schaap's "Instant Replay" for book reports from the early 70s through my college days, a decade later. "Lombardi Time" was referenced there, and elsewhere, as 15 min. ahead of the stated start time.
R.I.P Vince Lombardi you will always be missed and you will always be the greatest the world has ever seen
Bill B is
In my weight room in highschool, we have a quote that says "Fatigue makes a coward out of all of us." -Vince Lombardi
When I played in high school, the weight room had a sign, "Don't work me too hard coach. I don't want to win".
Best teams in their decade
2000s: Patriots
90s: Cowboys
80s: 49ers
70s: Steelers
60s: Packers
+Blake 2010s Seahawks
2000s: Patriots
90s: Cowboys
80s: 49ers
70s: Steelers
60s: Packers
+Brad Brown The Seahawks weren't relevant until 2006-2007 up, they don't really own that decade.
+Brad Brown Calling the Seahawks (or any team) the team of the decade for the 2010's is about 5 years premature. They need to win about 2 more to claim it.
yep
you need to think of bigger OF ALL TIME, pats are nice now cuz of bellicheat, but would've never stood a chance against a team like walsch, lombardi, or landry. John Madden can attest to that.
I missed the ice bowl.I did get to see most of the Western Conf. div.victory the week before,but I was only 8 and my mom wasn't into football.my dad was in Vietnam.Two years later,he was stationed at the Pentagon,and we could get tickets for Redskin games at Ft.McNair,if you were willing to get there real early.The first NFL game I saw was between Washington and Dallas at RFK in Nov.1969.The head coach for Dallas was of course Tom Landry.The head coach for Washington was..........Vince Lombardi.I consider myself extremely fortunate.
“If you can’t gain a yard you don’t deserve to be champions!” Talk about motivation
50 years gone today but never never forgotten! Thank you Vince Lombardi!!!
I remember watching the Ice Bowl in our living room in Newark, Delaware. After the game my family went trudging through the snow somewhere. I forget where.
To be fair, Lombardi was probably right to leave after Super Bowl II. I mean, look at him. The stress of being a coach, that obsession to win and be the best at what you do, the long hours away from family, it really takes a toll on you.
He was struggling with cancer too.
He looked like he was in his late 60s even if he was only 54.
Should have got that Colonostpy after the season. He might have made history in Washington also.
Can anybody imagine wide receivers or defensive players NOT wearing gloves in conditions like that nowadays? Lol.
+BUCK NUT 330 You said it just right. "Imagine"
+BUCK NUT 330 i wonder how any receivers caught anything i mean you ever try to catch a cold football in cold weather when your hands are cold? it just kills your hands
Ari Gross Gotta be like catching a brick. Tough loss tonight against Denver. GO PACK GO!
I have a hard time catching the ball when I play in anything below about 45 lol I played in abt 2 foot of snow last seaso, that was fun
Cant imagine the overpaid crybaby players of today even playing in these conditions period
One of the greatest games of all time, an absolute classic in nfl history
Hard to believe he's been gone 45 years.
+inbredagogo As hard to believe that at the time he had less than three years to live. Gosh I miss those days of great football and those who played the game back then.
+Mark Muffs and then after only 1 yr away he coached the 69 Resdkins and made them pretty good
+loyaldude10 the only thing that would have made the Ice Bowl worse was if they would have got a bunch of snow with it. Odd in that when I was living in Ohio the coldest day I remember which was about -22, it was a bright sunshiny day, lol.
+Mark Muffs You don't usually get much snow when it is that cold, because the air can't hold enough moisture for snow. It snows heavy when the temp is within about 10 degrees of freezing. And it is actually colder to be out in it when it is right around freezing, because everything gets wet. When it is super cold everything is dry. The frozen solid field would be like concrete, compared to cold mud, but a different kind of cold from 30 degrees and soaking wet.
+Stacie45 Actually i knew that from living in Ohio, I was just saying "what if". The temps I always watched closely was about 29 to 32 which was ripe for freezing rain which is more of a bear to deal with than snow. Snow is negotiable, ice is not.
Old school football was the best.
7:31 (if you can't gain a yard, you don't deserve to be champions) that should've been told to seattle last year in the super bowl.
Ha
STOP REMINDING ME 😭😭
thou shall not cease repetition (lol)
Bruh 😂
thanks?
I use to deliver the morning paper to Vince Lombardi when I was a kid he lived on Sunset Circle in Allouez which is a small town south of Green Bay
Vince Lombardi never cheated.
He is the greatest coach ever.
I think Vince Lombardi would rather lose than win in a dishonest or shady manner. He actually had integrity unlike Belichick or Bob Kraft
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It should be called The Belichick Trophy, not the Lombardi Trophy.
1) Bellichick never cheated. Goodell redefined terms in the rules after the fact to take the Pats' picks away in '07 and completely fabricated the "deflation" claims. Tons of scientific evidence has exonerated the Patriots for that including the experiments done by Ainissa Ramirez.
2) Lombardi was implicated in the biggest cheating scandal in the history of football-- at the very least, he let cadets cheat on military examinations, and there is significant evidence that he tampered with military exams to try to win at Westpoint. It took decades for Westpoint football to recover, and it had to expel 43 of 45 players.
@@astrobullivant5908 Sounds like Trumpshit to me.
@@Icyhotboo When Lombardi was an assistant coach at Westpoint, roughly 95% of the players were kicked out for cheating. Lombardi wrote in his book that the head coach's decision to not resign after that, even when his own son was involved in the cheating, was noble and taught him "perseverance." For these clowns to use Lombardi just as an excuse to go after Belichick and Brady with fake scandals based on junk science is absurd.
Keith Kevelson junk science like climate change? Lol you’re too predictable.
All the other Coaches learned from Vince! The GOAT
I think you have to throw Paul Brown in the mix for GOAT coach...the Browns won multiple world championships too and Paul Brown's passing game was so advanced in the 50's and 60's and 70's that Bill Walsh pretty much stole it and put his "west coast offense" stamp on it.
@@stevefowler2112 Plus, the Browns had a workhorse, the great Jim Brown.
All other coaches like Bill Parcells and Bobby Knight preached what Lombardi taught: Eliminate the mental errors.
Unbelievable that the stadium was packed full.
Greatest coach of all time. Winning is everything, Coach. Thank you!
Timmer "no it's not everything. It's the only thing" Vince Lombardi.
The game-time temperature at Lambeau Field was about −15 °F (−26 °C), with an average wind chill around −48 °F (−44 °C);
That's brutally cold even for a Canadian.
to me this remains the greatest pro football game ever.-15 degrees wind chill -40 and Dallas took it to the last play.the nfl would postpone the game today,it was a much better product back in 1967.
Ken Ryder hunni check o
Ken Ryder The Cowboys were branded as choke artists after this game by the press. They had to put up with hearing that until they beat the Miami Dolphins in SB VI.
they would not call it off
I agree on all counts, Ken
Well said Ken- 1000 years from now they'll still say that was the best game ever played.
My grandfather was at the Ice Bowl, he saw that iconic play on the 1 yard line. I’ve asked my dad before what my grandpa said about the game. He told me “that was a rough game to watch. I had a flask full of bourbon, and I drank the whole thing but I still felt cold”
I remember being glued to the set watching this game!!!
Probably the greatest chess match between two of the greatest coaches ever to coach football
a true perfectionist in Coach Lombardi ,and a great motivator
Being from the UK I can't imagine that level of cold. Legendary couch and game
the ice bowl, packers and lombardi, thats the defintion of Football right there. I could listen to a stories about the Ice bowl forever
The 1950's Giants had Vince Lombardi as offensive coordinator and Tom Landry as defensive coordinator. Makes you wonder how that team only won one NFL Championship(1956). Lombardi's last game with the Giants was the 1958 NFL Championship Game...the overtime thriller vs. the Baltimore Colts
I really wish i was old enough to remember these days....those were the days of their lives.
God bless ya coach
Only love and respect from one of the greatest Men and Coaches ever
Actually, the game did not end with Starr's quarterback sneak. There was a subsequent kickoff and one or two plays from scrimmage.
Thomas Wolf that’s was the last major play.
The sneak took place with 13 seconds. Time for a kickoff and one play.
THE GREATEST COACH...OF ALL TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hence, The Vince Lombardi Trophy.
"We reach down, and we got a little bit of Lombardi"..........
What an inspiration that man must have been! I'm not sure I would have wanted to play for him, but then again, he inspired so many people.
You got to admit it's pretty cool that Jerry Kramer gets to talk about that last play. That last shot when Starr goes in you look at that picture there are seven Hall of famers in that picture.
The story chronicled above is about more than just a game, a team.......a coach. It is about a shining example of what it takes to be a winner. Total commitment, total concentration, total perseverance in the face of excruciating pain, and the absolute refusal to be defeated. It was about a team held together by love......TOUGH love......given by a man who will always rank number one as a leader of men, and who is an example of what can be achieved in ANY field of endeavour in our great and free nation . Vince Lombardi and his Packers served as a life long inspiration for me, and I can honestly say that whatever small successes I've had in life were because of the example of greatness I witnessed that day on that frozen field in 1967.
John Foster well said I’m 40 years old long removed from coach Lombardi’s glory days ... yet his work ethic and example remains .... he is truly one of my hero’s ... along with many players on that team ...
7:31 - “If you can’t gain a yard, then you don’t deserve to be Champions” I agree
Absolutely the golden age of the NFL.
I went to Lambeau Atrium in October and it's such a wondrous thing to see everything he and Curly Lambeau built :) I have Italian heritage from Lombardy so perhaps Coach Lombardi and I are family!
The Ice Bowl was Epic!!! What a game.
Tackling in that weather has to be wild
They "tackled the weather".
Beautiful now JERRY KRAMER in the Hall !!!
He's finally there
I can't believe it took as long as it did to vote him in
RIP BART STARR
Wow, 5 titles in 9 seasons. I even remember watching a couple of them with my dad. Fifty years later I've seen Alabama's Coach Nick Saban do the same in college football. Man am I getting old.
No last names on the jerseys.
And no one took a knee. Guess they just showed up to play football. -40 wind chill. What were they thinking?
Not until the merger
I'm glad im a packer fan
Respect
I'm proud to be a Cowboys fan. Respect to the 60s Packers. A real football team
@@akumatheidiot
Me too
I remember reading that when he heard Chuck Noll was made Head Coach of the Steelers in '69 he predicted that Pittsburgh was going to be the next dynasty in the NFL.
They also drafted the cornerstone of the Steel Curtain in 1969.....Mean Joe Greene
GOAT Coach, any sport
It was an honor to be a "Teenage Stock-boy" at Larry's Piggly Wiggly in Kaukauna, WI., and go to the "Ice Bowl" with a free ticket given to me by the store Manager & Owner. I was given a ticket to a "Historic NFC-Championship game as Vince Lombardi guided the Packers to Victory!" God has guided my life with a love for the game of football. Father Mark Schommer a native of Kaukauna was a "Packers-Team Chaplin and a family-friend who played for the Packers" as a "Walk-on from UW-Stevens Point." Later, I was a similar story as a "Walk-on Player" at UW-Stout! Love for football came from a "Love" for the Packers and the demanding rough-game. The "Ice-Bowl defines a Frozen-Tundra as TITLE TOWN-USA!" In later years I was a "Packers-Ticket-Taker" from 1977 to 1987 and that was an "Honor" for this game!
T J (Tom) Vanderloop, Author, Technology-Instructor, A Manufacturing-Consultant & Community-Leader (AWS & SME)
Coach Lombardi would be spinning in his grave if he could see what has happened to the NFL today.
Nope. he would adjust. The great ones ALWAYS do. And knowing the man and how progressive he was he would understand that the game evolves and changes
"What the hells goin on out there! Everybody grabbing, nobody tacklin. Grab, grab, grab!"
Yep...
The dead stay dead. Obfuscating Lombardi's persona to project your own personal agenda is disrespectful.
@@rolandmiller5456 i disagree..he would turn and run from today's game
Never forget it. Etched in my memory as the greatest game ever.
Still Best Team Ever!! Packer fan for life.
The epitome of a team and a coach. During his nine seasons in Green Bay, Vince Lombardi elevated the Packers to unprecedented stature as the games greatest team. Lombardi was so much more than a coach. He was the very symbol of dedication and striving to attain. In any pursuit of man. It is also a proven fact that Lombardi is footballs only coach that could take any team and win. IMMEDIATELY!!! Bill Walsh, Tom Landry, Chuck Noll and nearly every other coaching icon struggled miserably at the onset of their careers. Lombardi took a Green Bay team that was almost out of business. In two years they were playing for the title. In his one season with a horrendous Washington Redskins team he turned them into winners. Lombardi was so good he even coached a High School Basketball team to a State Title!! This despite having almost no basic knowledge of the game. He took a Basketball Manual, used it as a guide and drove his team to victory after victory. Lombardis only weakness was that he was so driven it compromised his well being. During his reign however, no coach will ever match him. And no coach ever will. Five Championships in seven seasons. Choke on that Bill Belichick!!
One of the beauties of sports is the top dog, (Packers) and the young guns trying to knock them off (Cowboys)! We see this often, and most times it delivers a high impact, memorable game. Add in a win or go home scenario and you get "classics"! Its what made the NFL what it is today. When you break it down, these games stay with us. The Ice Bowl will forever be a game that will be a benchmark game. The real tragedy of this game is not how the Cowboys lost, but who erased this game for CBS? You can't tell me that when it was over someone didn't call New York and say, "save this"? Someone, has got to have a copy of this somewhere. If the NFL Network played "The Ice Bowl" like they did Super Bowl I it really might just break some ratings records.
+spryfol I agree totally. I hope they find it before Bart Starr passes away.
The networks in those days did a very poor job of archiving their product. NBC unfortunately either deleted, or taped over many Johnny Carson Tonight Shows that were done in NYC prior to the show moving west, and a ton of great material is now lost forever.
It's a damned shame someone erased the videotape of this game, but it doesn't surprise me. NFL films, though, does have a lot of great footage of it.
it's wishful thinking but video tape back in those days was very expensive which is why so many games (and other shows) are lost forever.
That is why NFL Films is often the only source of footage from early Super Bowl films, as they were way ahead of the curve on this.
Best. Game. Ever.
+Tim Tebow's Left Arm Have you actually watched old football games? They're boring as fuck, low scoring, grindy affairs. At least the defensemen were allowed to actually hit people though without being penalized.
There are many "old football games online" which show they were much more defense and running-oriented.
This game was much more, though, about arguably the greatest human test of will - not just football, but being able to perform as world class athletes in any way, shape or form - in the harshest conditions any game in any major team sport worldwide has ever led world-class athletes to endure. There was the storyline of the previous year's championship game, for which Dallas was aiming for pain-filled revenge. Then there was the greatest storyline - the Packers playing for an un-matched third straight league championship and the final game Vince Lombardi would ever coach at home for the Packers. Add the incredible drama of how the game ended. Put those factors together..best...game...ever.
Tim Tebow's Left Arm Eh, to each their own I guess. I preferred modern football before the rules protecting receivers and QB's came into effect. 90's and early 2000's. Needed a balanced offense and good defense to win. Wideouts would get punished for going over the middle, and dominant defenses could impact the game just as much as QB's. With the modern ruled the best QB's can just have their way and there's very little the defense can even do without being penalized. Can you imagine Brady trying to do his thing against the '85 Bears playing by the old rules? He wouldn't make it through one half.
The quick-rhythm passing game he's become an expert at? He and the modern Pats might tear up the '85 Bears. Same with Rodgers and company at their best (not recent weeks). But few would.
Tim Tebow's Left Arm With old rules linebackers and safeties would be allowed to drill receivers on slants and hitches. Take a look at Torry Holts fingers, you think Edelman's bitch ass is coming over the middle for check down passes 20 times a game? No way in hell. Furthermore as a pass rusher you were allowed to let your momentum carry you through after the QB released the ball. Brady would die.
All Time Coach For All Coaches!
Super Bowl II. "Lets play the last 30 minutes for the old man." - Jerry Kramer.
When I was 9 years old, I wrote a letter to Coach Lombardi asking if he could send me a team picture. Guess what I got- Individual autographed 8x10 glossies of every starting Player! My goodness, did I love him and the Packers! Still do.
The game saw the goal posts come down and many souvenirs are taken out of Lambeau Field. A welding torch was brought onto the field and a welder cut many 12-inch "Goal Post" segments for the fans. A number of plywood green and gold painted helmets also left the field as 1967 trophies for the fans. Title town was energized and warm with "Community Support as the 12th Player" making history.
T J (Tom) Vanderloop, An Author, Teacher and a Former Packer Ticket-taker (1977 to 1986) at Lambeau
I was a Packer fan at the "Ice Bowl" and thank "Larry's Piggly Wiggly" for their Packer-Ticket" as a stock-boy. This game was an epic victory for the 3-time World Champion Packers. Vice Lombardi was the reason the "Team-Won."
T J (Tom) Vanderloop, Author, Teacher & Manufacturing Consultant. AWS & SME Member to Industry,
His only postseason loss came again my favorite team (Philadelphia Eagles).
5 titles in 9 years. Hard to beat that.
Lombardi & Starr: GOAT
Belicheck & Brady: Pfft...
Belichick and Brady's championships are all scripted
Both are great. Let's not build someone up by putting others down.
Lombardi died at 57, having won 5 titles. When Belichick was 57, he won 3 Super Bowls.
Starr and Brady were both late round draft picks, with Bart being an 17th rounder. Brady, of course, a 6th round pick.
The Lombardi era, ... never ended.
9 years playing for the Coach. And when it really counted, "We reached down, got a little bit of Lombardi."
This was football at its best. No Official Reviews! No TV Time Outs! No weird singer at half time! A catch was a catch! And they had kick off returns! Yes kids, kick off returns. Now the commercials are more important than the game. The ref's are just for looks and the thought of a player getting his bell rung is grounds to end the NFL all together.
I GOT TO LOVE THE MAN!!!!!!
So glad Jerry Kramer finally made the HOF.....I joined alot of people in writing letters to the Hall in his support..
On that sneak think about his for a minute: you have at 6 Hall of Famers in that final picture...and #64 led the way.
The Bart Starr QB sneak TD the greatest play in NFL history.
It had to be tough just being a spectator in that game as cold as it was.
Fun fact: Vince Lombardi's only postseason defeat was against the Philadelphia Eagles.
44excalibur Hate to be a Bogart, but technically that’s not true. The NFL back in those days had a postseason runner up Bowl game for the teams that finished second in each conference. Green Bay lost at least one of these, in 1964 against St. Louis.
@Jed Belcher That technically doesn't count because that was prior to postseason football. Back in those days the Championship Game was the only game that mattered prior to the Super Bowl era. And after the loss to the Eagles, Lombardi coached the Packers to a record nine postseason game win streak, which wasn't broken until Bill Belichick led the Patriots to ten straight postseason wins from 2002-2006.
@@balrog322 That's interesting. I'm 61 but I never knew the NFL ever had a runner up bowl.
RJ Walker in Jerry Kramer’s Instant Replay, he quotes Lombardi’s characterization of this ‘Bowl’ game: “A rinky-dink game played by rinky-dink teams in a rinky-dink city.” As we know, he had no use for anything other than first place. I think it was dropped once the NFL split the conferences in ‘67, if not it went into the dustbin of NFL history when the AFL & NFL merged in 1970.
@@balrog322 I just read the history of it. It was discontinued when the AFL and NFL merged in 1970 as you last said. So it was still around in 1968 and 69. I should have remembered that because I was 11 years old then and really into football. I suspect those games were not televised nationally though, if at all. So I probably never saw one which would explain it.
Run it and lets get the hell outta here
+Thomas Norman Man I wish Lombardi was there to tell that to Pete Carroll in SB49
+Truebells24 absolutely.....did you know it was lombardi"s idea to place either wires or tubes of hot water under Lambeau Field to keep the field from freezing...well that plan failed, somehow the water pipes froze, freezing the field....Lombardi shouldered full responsiblilty if the Packers would have lost that game, He can thank his offensive line and Bart Starr.........
+Truebells24 Yup... I AGREE TOTALLY.
50 years ago yesterday the football world lost this great man
Later Nitski said watching the offense on 3rd and goal. "These are tough guys. They'll go in."
It's hard to even watch that game seeing how cold it was. I couldn't imagine being out in that kind of weather.
What a GREAT COUCH THE BEST OF THE BEST MR VINCE
that's five titles in 7 years not 9 years 1961 through 1967
They mean in Lombardis 9 years as head coach in Green Bay
Never Get Tired of Watching This
“Well, then run it and let’s get the he’ll out of here!”😝
Now that's football boys and girls!!!!😃😃😃😃
Vince Lombardi liVes.
June 11, Happy Birthday Coach Lombardi :)
No Paul Hornung. No Jim Taylor. They still won.
Best coach in my lifetime
No NFL team had won 3 straight titles before and haven’t since
It's astonishing how many people sleep on that fact. The only three peat in NFL history, and due to a Bart Starr-led drive in a show of precision passing. He didn't throw a lot, but almost every pass was a dagger in the heart of the opponent. I'm still fuming Bart Starr was left off the Top 100 team.
Knew exactly where I was when the news of Vin's death was broadcast on the radio: the Ashtabula (Ohio) exit on Interstate 90 east of Cleveland. As a lifelong Cheesehead, I will always regard Vin has my favorite Wisconsin sports hero.
C'mon NFL. I didn't come here to feel desired depressed, I came here to marvel at coach Lombardi.
The Greatest Coach. The Greatest Team Of All Time. Period.
What a natural leader.
Godspeed Bart Starr!
The Green Bay Packers wore the colors of the U.S. Army. Vince Lombardi was like a tank commander.
Saw the game and was amazed they were playing in these conditions.
Jerry Kramer great football player, and man.
The greatest coach ever, the greatest team ever, and the greatest game ever.
GO PACK GO!!!
I remember the players were so cold and done in at the final minutes they were helping their opponents get up and holding each to just walk.
Greatest championship game ever played The Ice ❄ Bowl