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Vince Lombardi is the Patron Saint of American football. The Super Bowl trophy is named after him. Green Bay is a town in Wisconsin which is located very far north in the continental U.S. Normally Green Bay has very cold weather.
They were going for their third NFL championship in a row. It's confusing because before the NFL-AFL merger it was just the nfl championship.. it was their second super bowl in a row. By the way it's nice seeing two guys who obviously like sports but are from a different place learning about our wonderful game. Props to you guys for learning.
At this time (1967), the NFL Championship was a semi-final before the Super Bowl. But from the fans and media perspective, many considered this to be the "real" championship. The AFL was a much weaker league, and most people were quite confident that the winner of this game would go on to win the Super Bowl.
The city of Green Bay is a rather unusual crowd. Fiercely loyal to their Packers, season tickets are generational in nature, even to the point that many local families register their new born children so that they can get onto a 30 year waiting listing for seasonal tickets. Why? One of the reasons is the community atmosphere of Green Bay that is rarely matched anywhere in American sports. These folks love their team. The other, is that the Green Bay Packers (the football organization) is actually owned by the city of Green Bay, Wisconsin. This makes it the only major sports program that is owned by a municipality in professional sports. This makes the Packers truly Green Bay.
It was called the NFL championship before they renamed it later to the Super Bowl. They actually won the last 3 NFL championships and the first 2 super bowls
@@DNReacts yes, it was confusing. But the NFL was a separate league from the AFL. It would be like the Premier league title winner playing the English Football league winner. At that time the NFL title was more important than the super bowl because the AFL was considered a second rate league. After Super Bowl 3 the NFL merged with the AFL. They are now know as the NFC and AFC of the NFL.
Yeah, technically speaking the old NFL Championship Game is now the NFC Conference Championship Game. The Packers played the Super Bowl in MIami the week after the Ice Bowl.
Not quite. For several years, the now NFC was still the NFL. The AFL was an entirely different league. Their champions met in the Super Bowl AFTER they won the NFL and AFL championships.
@@emeraldcity_ The NFL and AFL agreed to merge for the 1970 season, and part of the agreement was that they would play the AFL/NFL championship game. The last one was when the Chiefs defeated the Vikings. The Jets beating the Colts was not the reason for the merger, as it was already agreed that they would merge in 1970. If you compare the teams that were playing in 1970, the NFL teams dominate the AFL teams in terms of SB wins, keeping in mind that the Steelers, Colts and Ravens (originally the Browns) were NFL teams. Those 3 teams went into the AFC to balance the numbers between NFC/AFC.
In Wisconsin he's known as Saint Vince, for bringing the team back to glory. The heating system under the turf has been replaced by a system of tubes that a heated water solution is pumped through. I can remember in the 70's and 80's during late season games when the old electric system would fail, but not completely just under parts of the field. Many of us in Wisconsin grew up on Lombardi time. Which means, if you're 15 minutes early your on time; 10 minutes early and you are looked at like an outsider; 5 minutes early you're late and on time means you shouldn't have bothered coming. It's a hard habit to change, I still to this day arrive early.
i'm a little young for those times, but my parents lived through that. i'm at the age where Rodgers has been my reigning hero since i was younger. so nice to see these guys give some attention to wisconsin tho
FYI the temp during the Ice Bowl was -25C, windchill -44C. An elderly man in the crowd actually died from exposure. The Packers did a three-peat twice actually, but the first time was 1929-31, when the championship winners were determined by record. In the 60s, Lombardi's team won 5 championships in 7 years, which no other team has ever done. The Packers are really the most unique team in American sports, not just the NFL. Everyone thinks their team is special or different in some way but it's just wishful thinking unless you are a GB fan. Their history is second to none (most championships, most wins, most iconic franchise), they have the most storied stadium in the NFL, and the Super Bowl trophy is named their coach. They have the longest waiting list for season tickets (about 30 years) and the longest stadium sellout streak. They are the ultimate small-town, working class team from a tiny city of just over 100K, which is unheard of in American pro sports. The sole reason for their survival is because they've been a publicly owned non-profit corporation since 1923, so every cent the team makes goes back into funding them rather than in some billionaire's pockets. The team can never relocate to another city either. It's the ultimate security.
@@DNReacts Lombardi really was the legend that forged modern day American Football. You should look up his quotes. He was a brilliant coach. My favorite : “Winning isn’t everything. It’s the ONLY thing.”
@@douglaswilsmann4599 Only over the last 30 years when the Packers were lucky enough to have back to back hall of fame quarterbacks. The Bears lead the all time series for many years. The Packers now lead 105-95-6. There is a video - The Bears Still Suck that gives the Packer fans point of view of the rivalry.
Lombardi is the most famous coach in NFL history, so much so that the Super Bowl championship trophy is named after him - the Lombardi trophy. This is a tough era to get a grasp on regarding who is "Champion" of the NFL, since the National Football League and the American Football League were in the process of merging. Prior to 1966-67 season, those two leagues did not play in a final "Super Bowl" and there's a ton of history to go with this regarding the AFL being an upstart to the well-established NFL. In 66-67, the AFL was popular enough that the NFL agreed to play in a final "NFL-AFL Championship" game that we now call the Super Bowl. However, there was still a separate NFL championship and AFL championship (later the NFC champions and AFC champions). So, in this game, Green bay won the NFL championship, which was no longer the championship for the entire league since they still had to go on to the Super Bowl and play the Oakland Raiders in a game which they won. In this season, Green bay was both the NFL champion and Super Bowl champion. Just trying to explain this is a total shitshow though, so cheers fellas 😂
The Vince Lombardi Trophy, also known simply as the Lombardi Trophy or even just the Lombardi, is the trophy awarded each year to the winning team of the National Football League's championship game.
Good video. You guys might like another winter game from Green Bay though it isn't as famous as the Ice Bowl. The Packers and the Giants played the NFC championship in January 2008 and it was even colder. The Giant coach's face was practically frostbitten from the cold and the ball was like a rock.
My dad was only about 9 years old when this game was played, but he could describe what it was like watching it with his dad like he just saw it the day before. The Packers are like distant relatives to football fans in Wisconsin, and the stories I heard from dad and grandpa and the games we watched together always make it a little bit easier to deal with them being gone
00:58 Yes Vince Lombardi was the coach of he Green Bay Packers. He's widely considered one of the best coaches in NFL history. He took over the Packers in 1959 after the team had posted 1-10-1 record. Over the next ten years, Lombardi led them to a 96-34-1 record and 5 NFL championships, including wins in the first two NFL Super Bowls. He had a 9-1 record in the postseason and never had a losing record.
@@DNReacts The Super Bowl trophy was named the Lombardi Trophy in 1970, as a memorial to Vince Lombardi, who had tragically passed away from cancer that year at the age of 57.
You guys are my morning ritual along with my coffee. just a suggestion, some of the best documentaries about the sport can be found at NFL Films. They do an awesome job of building the suspense and story telling, and have been doing it since the 1960's. Used to watch their stuff on VHS as a child. Vince Lombarbi : won the last 3 NFL Championships (before the Superbowl era) and the first 2 Super Bowls. One of the greatest coaches in the sport (5 time champion, won over 75% of his games). Known as a master motivator as well as a competent tactician. Lombardi believed in doing simple things with consistent excellence and his practices were concise and intense. Lombardi's players were wholeheartedly devoted to him, and his emphasis on hard work and dedication endeared him to millions of fans. this statement will sum up his career: The Super Bowl Trophy is call "The Vince Lombarbi Trophy"
I watched this live on television. It was the greatest game ever played in my opinion because of the conditions. Great reaction. Players in those days were tough. A lineman on the team I supported had his jaw broken and played 2 games with his jaw wired shut.
This game was before my time. I remember the Freezer Bowl. This game was in 1982, the AFC championship game, Cincinnati Bengals vs. San Diego Chargers (Bengals won!). At kick-off, the temperature was -9F with a wind chill of -59F. The wind chill makes this coldest game played. Yes, the Ice Bowl had a lower temperature but the wind chill wasn't quite as low. The Bengals tried psyching the Chargers out so the offensive and defensive lines played in short sleeved shirts. No grass or heated field, the stadium had astroturf and it was said it like playing on concrete. I watched on TV in the comfort of my home.
That was hard to watch after the Chargers defeated the Dolphins in the Epic in Miami two weeks earlier. The temperature, if you include the wind chill factor in Cincinnati, was over a hundred degrees colder. The Chargers were a warm-weather team anyway, and the Bengals were used to the cold, if not that kind of cold. The only satisfaction I got from the end of that season was watching the Forty-Niners win the Super Bowl.
In 1966/67 the NFL insisted on a TV blackout in areas within a certain radius of where the game was being played. My hometown was within that circle and I had to listen on the radio. Ted Moore, the announcer's voice in this video, was the Packer radio play by play man. I recall feeling more relieved than happy after the win. A friend of mine got a 2 inch piece of one of the goal posts from that game.
To add to what @Lincoln Hawk already said, the NFL had other rival professional leagues pop up over the years. They mostly failed and folded. In 1960 the American Football League started with teams in the middle and western part of the U.S. while the NFL was mostly in the Midwest and eastern parts of the country. They put enough pressure on the NFL that a merger was negotiated to begin in 1970 but starting in the 1967 they agreed for the league champions to meet in what was called the "AFL-NFL World Championship Game.". However the AFL founder and owner of the then AFL Kansas City Chiefs saw his daughter playing with a bouncy ball she had obtained from a coin operated vending machine. The name of the ball was the "Superball". And Mr. Hunt suggested that name for the game and it stuck. That is why it went from NFL championships to the Super Bowl.
Also, the AFL did a really good job of raiding NFL star players by offering them bigger contracts. The AFL had money to throw around and the NFL didn't like it. I am glad how it turned out though. We got a merger and a great game, the Super Bowl.
The first four Super Bowls pitted the NFL Champions against the AFL Champions, a rival league. After that, the NFL and AFL merged and the Super Bowl became the official NFL Championship Game that pitted the NFL's two conferences against each other, the NFC and AFC.
Vince Lombardi is the man they named that Super Bowl winner's trophy after ("the Lombardi Trophy"). The legend of legends in the NFL, and honestly, one of the great icons of American culture as a whole. Y'all are really digging into it now! 😂
Super Bowl started after the NFL AFL merger was announced in 1966. Before the merger took effect in 1970, both leagues still had their own championship games in addition to the Super Bowl where the NFL and AFL League Champions Played Each other. So there was a 4 year period where we had an NFL Champion and a potentially different Super Bowl Champion. Starting in the 1970 season, the NFL and AFL Championship games became the NFC and AFC Conference Championship games. Packer won 5 NFL Titles in the 1960s and the first 2 super bowls so the Super Bowl trophy was named after coach Lombardi.
I actually watched a Vince Lombardi documentary about his entire career, apparently Lombardi was pissed going into this game, because he was the one who commissioned the heating system to be installed in Lambeau Field and was quite proud of it. He considered the system failing to be his own failure.
What Bartt did, saying "I'm upright, I can shuffle in." That became the QB sneak play. The Quaterback keeps the ball and gets into the line in an attempt to just shuffle forward and get the touchdown.
There is a freeway in Dallas named after Tom Landry the Dallas Cowboys head coach during this game. He is the one standing on the Dallas side wearing a Fedora hat... Two Hall of Fame head coaches with this game known as the Ice Bowl...
To give a reboot on the game winning drive, the Packers drove 68 yards in 4:19. The temperature had dropped to -18°F with a feels like temperature of -49°F. They were driving into the shadow end of the stadium, where the ice was set in solidly.
They were a glorious machine. The NFL's original icon of Team and Champions, of grtty, tough togetherness. All in the NFLs smallest city(still) & the only(still) community owned franchise. The Green Bay Packers. The stuff of Legends, still...
Added bit of context, the Cowboy's Head coach in this game was Tom Landry, he is accredited with inventing the 4-3 defense is still one of the most common schemes 60 years later. So not only was it a championship game on a frozen field, but also a battle of one of the best offensive minds in football in Lombardi vs one the best defensive minds in Landry. A truly iconic game, you cant tell the history of the nfl or football in general without it being discussed.
Lombardi and Landry were assistant coaches under Jim Lee Howell of the New York Giants. In today's terminology, Lombardi was the offensive coordinator and Landry was the defensive coordinator.
Before the Super Bowl there was 2 pro leagues . The original NFL (NFL champions) and the new AFL . The two league champions started playing in the "Super Bowl" . Shortly after the two leagues merged into the NFL giving us what we have today. The two conference champions from the NFC & AFC playing in the SB.
As one of the rare people anymore that actually watched this live I can give you some insight. LOL!! 3:00 The Super Bowl had just started that year. The three championships they refer too were NFL Championships. The Super Bowl was considered an after thought. It as assumed the NFL would beat the AFL handily. And in previous history & a few years after, the assumption was right. Lombardy was a gruff old bird but he (and Dallas coach Landry) was a true gentleman. As I recall GB came out flat. They should have dominated a warm weather team in these conditions. Fun fact - Where it is -40 both Centigrade & Fahrenheit agree.
This video missed the players talking about it. Dan Reeves got hit so hard in the mouth that his tooth went through his lip, but he couldn’t feel it and by the time he took his tooth out of his lip only one drop of blood fell because the rest froze almost instantly.
This was before the NFL became what it was today, before it merged with the AFL. They actually played the Super Bowl two weeks later against the AFL champion Raiders in Super Bowl II. The Super Bowl was still in its infancy at the time.
This has a bit of "Mandella Effect" history for historic football fans "The Frozen Tundra" aka Lambeau Field got it's nickname from it's insanely cold climate and field and many believed the iconic NFL Films narrator John Facenda coined it when he said in his legendary baritone football voice on the NFL Films broadcasting of The Ice Bowl was _"On the frozen tundra of Lambeau Field"_ which alot of people see as his most famous line throughout the years. However oddly enough John Facenda never even said it 😳 Not only that, but there were even earlier reports of Lambeau Field being called "The Frozen Tundra" prior Steve Sabol (NFL Filmsmaker and then future president of NFL Films) at the time wrote in the script for it to be called "Frozen Tundra" and Lombardi hated it so he wrote it out. However, in the Cowboys perspective of the film it was kept in and Frank Glieber was the film announcer for that film. John Facenda wouldn't even say that line til years later when he covered a playoff game between The Raiders vs The Browns at Municipal Field in 1980 on the NFL Film "Kardiac Kids" where he instead said, _"The Frozen Tundra of Municipal Field"_ Which down the line I guess became a mixup and even Chris Berman (sports commentator) would impersonate Facenda and would always bring up the "Frozen Tundra" line when talking about Lambeau field which all in the end really helped enforce a Mandela Effect to an iconic line from an iconic voice that apparently never even happened.
This was 1967. At that time there were two leagues, The AFL and the NFL, The Superbowl was the championship of the two leagues who were going to be merging after the 1968 season. This was the game to decide the NFL champion
The coach of the Green Bay Packers was Vince Lombardi. He was so good, they named the Super Bowl Trophy after him. When you win the Super Bowl, you get the Lombardi Trophy.
In those days the Green Bay Packers were, what we now would call, America's team. They were immensely popular. I remember playing football in our yard in 1962 and everyone wanted to be the Packers. Now, things have changed. The Packers are not nearly as popular and many people are critical of them. I'm not sure why but that is how it is.
There have been games almost as cold as back then, but we have a lot of technology on our side these days. Thermal garments, giant heaters on the sideline, hands warmers, sticky gloves, etc.
A wedge is when you line up multiple blockers againt one opposing guy so that they can push him out of the way creating space for one of your guys to get through
If you want to know more about Vince Lombardi. Watch "A Football Life, Vince Lombardi". Very good show. Also if you can pick it up. The book "When Pride Still Matters" is an incredible read. Very hard book to put down. In Northern New Jersey where I live. Lombardi is a big deal here. His first head coaching job was at a Catholic High School in Englewood, NJ named St Cecilia. Won many State championships there before moving on to coach at West Point then the NY Giants then finally becoming head coach at Green Bay. An interesting note...His grandson Joe Lombardi won a Superbowl as an assistant coach with the New Orleans Saints. He was born after Vince passed away.
Third NFL championship in a row. He won three NFL titles in a row, and the first two NFL-AFL Championships (Super Bowl) withnin that time frame. The Super Bowl title is named after Vince, the Lombardi Trophy.
The Super Bowl started as a Championship game between two different leagues, the National Football League and the American Football League, the Ice Bowl was an NFL Championship game, Green Bay went on to face Oakland in what retroactively became Super Bowl 2.
The Super Bowl was different when it first started. The first two Super Bowls (which were called the NFL-AFL World Championship at the time they were played) were played the second and last years of the Packers' 3 NFL championships in a row. As NFL champions, the Packers played the AFL Champions in the first two Super Bowls and won both. The "Ice Bowl" was actually the game before Super Bowl II, and the winner would play in the Super Bowl. Two years after the Packers' run, the NFL and AFL merged into one league with two conferences, so Super Bowl V was the first one that was also the NFL championship.
As stated by other posters, this is a bit confusing, because there were two football leagues: the NFL and the AFL. So this year was the their third NFL Championship. They went on to win their second Superbowl (which then pitted the champion of the NFL and AFL). This wasn't the end of his coaching though. He left the Packers to bring a winning season to the Washington Commanders. Then he died of stomach cancer.
Vince Lombardi is THE Coach. Every year the Super Bowl awards the Lombardi Trophy to the winner. During the 1960s the packers won NFL championships nearly every year BEFORE there was a Super Bowl and the Packers then won the first two Super Bowls.
Been loving your channel! Something I didn't hear mentioned, it was so cold that the referees couldn't use their whistles. The first ref who went to blow his whistle had it freeze to his face and they had to peel the skin off with the whistle. The wound couldn't even properly scab because the blood froze on his face. In regards to the wedge, you're trying to create a hole in their line so the guy can break through just to get a couple of yards. Usually when you do this you're trying to pick the weakest person on the line to force them to move.
Nice reaction guys! I think you’re doing a great job of learning the game! You’ve picked it up pretty quickly, in my opinion. I love these old football films. God, I look at those old helmets and they just seem so useless compared to what players have today. Some of these guys were so broken by the time their careers were over that they spent the rest of their lives in constant pain.
They should do a reaction to Vince Lombardi. Bill Belichick will probably go down as the best coach in NFL history, but Vince was the most special coach
@johannawaldo7103 The last time the Packers won the Super Bowl, there was an HBO documentary about Vince in the days leading up to the game. But some time later, NFL films released an "a football life" special on Vince, which shared pretty much all the same footage. The video they saw was just a segment from that documentary
@@patrickkanas3874 oh, I bet that’s a great documentary! I’ll have to look it up. I was too young to remember him as a coach, but you always heard the name. The coach I remember best was Tom Landry.
To gain a better appreciation of this game, you would need to find the longer version, 1967 Ice Bowl, where the players on each side talk about the game.
As far as playing in the cold--remember what Ray Lewis said when he was mic'ed up. 1) "Football is supposed to hurt", and 2) "This is a man's game". Yep.
Refs stopped using whistles in this game. Early in game ref blew whistle and it was frozen to his lips. He yanked whistle off and his lips was bleeding only to freeze seconds later.
Ha ha glad you followed up on this. Not old enough to have seen this live, but what I remember most from reviews of it, was Cowboy Bob Lilly launching his helmet into the stratosphere in frustration at the end of the game. It was a key moment when Green Bay’s time was running out, but the reigning King still was top dog & holding off the upstarts. I'm 56 years old, and this game was the kind of thing I'd read about or watch on TV as legendary history -- funny in hindsight, when you're a kid something from just the previous decade seems like ancient mythical history.
One of the things the video neglects to mention is that it was so cold, that the referees could not blow their whistles, because their lips would freeze to the metal whistle. Eventually, they had to basically just shout in place of blowing a whistle. Also, the Dallas Cowboys quarterback was named Don Meredith And he became quite a pop culture star throughout the 70s and 80s. Someone stole his big overcoat from the sideline during the game. 30 or 40 years later the guy who stole it returned it to Meredith’s son while making a documentary.
"Wedge Pugh" meaning they where going to double, or even triple team Pugh to open a hole on his side, they saw him fading, and where going to finish him off.
Wedge is a term that has changed over time. In today's world, the term most appropriate would be submarine. Jethro Pugh was a defensive lineman for Dallas. He was 6 feet 9 inches in height, but he had a high center of gravity. The offensive lineman opposite Pugh was Jerry Kramer. He realized that if he could get far enough underneath Pugh, then Kramer would open up a hole for Starr to run the quarterback sneak.
The packers are my favorite team, Lombardi is the coach, yes that was snow, it’s the coldest stadium on average every year. It’s nicknamed “the frozen tundra”
The Ice Bowl is what we would call today the NFC (National Football Conference) Championship game (the game prior to the Super Bowl)…Back then there were two football leagues, the National Football League and the American Football League. The first two Super Bowls were played by the champions of these two leagues. After the two leagues merged into the National Football League, the American Football League became the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football League became the National Football Conference (NFC) under the NFL’s umbrella. The modern Super Bowl is a game between the champions of these two conferences to decide the ultimate champion…
3rd NFC championship. This was actually right when the superbowl was starting so hard to explain now vs 1967. They played for a championship and then they started doing an AFC vs NFC then that became the Super Bowl by the early 70’s so the Packers won the first 2 super bowls. But they had won championships in the years before it existed
You guys are fun to watch. May I suggest another historic game from the 1960s - the Heidi game. It forever changed the way NFL games were broadcast on television.
FYI the superbowl trophy has since been called the “Lombardi Trophy” I’m also surprised this video didn’t dwell on the ridiculous conditions of that day. They severely downplayed it
Vince Lombardi is THE coach. The trophy given out at the Super Bowl is the LOMBARDI trophy. In his time at Green Bay they were the dominant team in the league. This is the NFL championship. The Super Bowl was origionally the game between the NFL and the AFL champions. They eventually merged and now it's just the NFL.
Game time temperature: minus-25 degrees Celsius. Coldest NFL game ever. On the game-winning play, Chuck Mercein (#30, a Yale graduate!) expected that he was the ball carrier when he heard the play. Bart Starr (#15) apparently didn't tell anyone but Jerry Kramer (#64) that he was not handing off but carrying the ball himself -- so Mercein was running full speed in anticipation. When he saw Starr with the ball, Mercein put his hands up in celebration but also to indicate to the referee that he wasn't helping Starr into the end zone, which at that time may have been illegal (not now).
The Packers have a solid fan base that travels well. They have sold out every home game since 1961. They have 4 Super Bowl titles, and a total of 13 NFL Championships. They have their own Hall of Fame, and have more team members in the NFL HOF ( which used the Packers HOF as a model) than every team, with the exception of their long time, chief rivals, The Chicago Bears! The Packers are the only team owned by the fans, and operate in this nations smallest economic community for a professional franchise. Don't sell the Packers short by believing the jealous haters. BTW the trophy for the SB is the Lombardi Trophy. Go Pack Go!!
There were the AFL and the NFL leagues who came together and merged in 1970 to the modern expanded NFL. The two leagues did not start playing the "Super Bowl" until 66-67 season, which is what this game was being played for. The winner would go on to play the AFL champion, Kansas City Chiefs in the AFL/NFL Championship. While it wasn't until a year or two later, the term Super Bowl would be coined it was retroactively applied to this season you are watching. Before this, the packers had won NFL championships but since they did not play the AFL in a championship game for all of pro football, and thus they do not consider those as "AFL/NFL champions" or retroactively as "Super Bowls".
In the beginning there was the NFL (National Football League). The championship was called the NFL Championship. As football becomes more popular, along comes an upstart league to rival them named the AFL (American Football League) and they had the AFL championship game. To settle who was best they agreed to finish the season with a "Super Bowl" between the two winners in each league. The two leagues would eventually merge into one under the NFL name and the two leagues would become the two conferences that we know today as the NFC (National Football Conference) and AFC (American Football Conference). To this day the winners of these two conferences compete in the super bowl. The AFL were big underdogs until the NY Jets won the first super bowl for the AFL with quarterback "Broadway" Joe Namath. You should check him out next. I think you'll like him since you liked Deon Sanders.
At that point, it was the 3rd NFL championship. The second Super Bowl between the NFL & the AFL. Two separate leagues that eventually merged a couple of years later. The Packers won the first two Super Bowls, and the Super Bowl trophy is called the Lombardi Trophy in memory of Coach Lombardi.
Someone else I believe answered this but I'll add to it. From 1920 to 1932 the NFL Championship went to the team with the best winning percentage at the end of the season. Starting in 1933 they added divisions, and playoffs. The American Football League(AFL) started in 1960, and the NFL merged with them in 1970. In the 1966-1967 season, the NFL and AFL agreed to have their champions meet, originally called the NFL-AFL Worlds Championship game, which was renamed to the Super Bowl in 1970. The Packers won the 1965 NFL Championship game, which was the last not to be part of the "Super Bowl" era, they went on to win the first 2 Super Bowls, technically making it to where they won 3 championships in a row, but not 3 Super Bowls. The game you reacted to, winning put them in Super Bowl 2. Hope that clears things up a bit.
The nfl decided it’s winner by record from 1920-1932 then in 1933 they played a championship game which lasted until technically 1969 but in 1966 the “champion” was decided by the Super Bowl and in 1970 the AFL merged into the NFL the packers won 13 championships (most in NFL history) and have the most wins from one franchise
The Super Bowl trophy is called the Lombardi Trophy because they won the first Super Bowl which at that time was not called the "Super Bowl". It was called the AFL-NFL World Championship Game.🏈
The wedge play is easy to install and is essentially a play that has 6 or more blockers vs. one defender. It generates so much force it literally plows through defenders. The only hope for the defense is to cut the wedge down.
Well done guys! I was like 10 back in those days I was a Packers fan. I can remember watching them any chance I got. For the Ice bowl I felt bad for the fans sitting in the stands. I get cold just watching the videos! See ya again soon!
3 in a row: Lombardi's Packers had won two consecutive NFL championships in 1965 and 66. But the "Super Bowl" was a new thing- in fact it wouldn't actually be called that until 1969. It was originally the "NFL-AFL Championship Game", and was first played in 1966 (the Packers won). But since the American Football League was considered an upstart by the venerable NFL, many fans considered the NFL Championship the ":real" championship- and this would indeed be the Packers' third in a row. (They would go on to win the NFL-AFLCG, "Super Bowl II")
You might want to look up "The Heidi Game" between the Oakland Raiders and New York Jets. in 1968. Near the end of the game, TV switched from the Game to the Family Movie "Heidi". Oakland scored two touchdowns in the final minutes to win. The TV viewers were so mad they almost destroyed the telephone lines to the TV Network...It showed the Power American Football had at that time even at that time... Switching from an important NFL Game to a Family Movie in the final minutes would be unthinkable anymore....
We Americans are a funny lot. In sports, especially sports, we admire tough players. We love guys who sacrifice for the good of their team. We admire guys who show how willing they are to play hurt, for the benefit of not only their home team, but for the benefit of their home town, and especially for the benefit of their teammates. Playing in lousy weather is just one more example in “tough guy” play. I was not a great player myself, but I did play starting defensive lineman for my high school team, and I remember playing with bruised ribs in one game, and playing with a broken finger in another, and why? Because the thought of letting down my team, even at the age of 16, was hateful to me. It’s just the way we are built.
One point of clarification about the difference between the NFL Championship and the Super Bowl; in modern times, they are the same thing, but in the early days the Super Bowl was a game played between the champion of the NFL (National Football League) and the champion of the AFL (American Football League). The two leagues eventually merged into the one combined NFL that we have today, and modern Super Bowls are played between the champion of the NFC (National Football Conference) and the champion of the AFC (American Football Conference). Many of the teams in the NFC and AFC are the same franchises that date back to the NFL and AFL respectively from before the merger. Lombardi's Packers won five NFL Championships, including three in a row in Lombardi's final three seasons as coach. They played in (and won) the first ever Super Bowl against the Kansas City Chiefs after having won their fourth NFL Championship under Lombardi. The following year, they won their fifth NFL Championship (the Ice Bowl) against Dallas before going on to play in (and win) Super Bowl II against the Oakland Raiders. I hope that all made sense. None of this is really relevant to today's game, but it might be useful knowledge if you're going to continue looking into some of those older games.
Great line among many in there--PR guy Lane has to tell Coach the field is frozen and Lane says he would have rather told Coach that "Marie (Lombardi's wife) was running around on him". :)
I also like the part where Vince names Phil Bengston as his replacement. Not because I find it entertaining but because I remember watching this with my dad, rest his soul, and Bengston's name was said, dad immediately said, "and he proceeded to run them straight into the ground".
At that time it was the NFL (national football league) vs the AFL (American football league). After that season they merged to both become the NFL. The teams in the NFL became the NFC, (national football conference) and the AFL teams became the (American football conference). I don't think the term Superbowl was even invented until the 3rd one had happened. Lamar Hunt, owner of the Kansas City Chiefs came up with the name based on his children's super ball, which was a very rubbery ball that would bounce off of any hard surface it was thrown at. The trophy like I said was named for after Lombardi since he was regarded as the best coach at the time and had won the first two championships, again not called the Superbowl at the time between the two leagues. I think it was called simply the NFL vs AFL championship the first 2 times.
Dallas and Green Bay are both NFC teams... so they played for the NFC championship. the NFC champs then play the AFC champs in the Super Bowl. super bowl is always the NFC VS AFC champs... national football league vs american football league
The idea of of a "bowl" game in American football started in college football. In the early years teams just played anyone else in their area who fielded a team. Then regional teams began to form "conferences" that played a more regular schedule. As others may have told you, college football was 1000 times more prestigious and popular than the fledgling pro game up until late 50's when the NFL started working with television. (Hence the ten largest stadiums in the U.S. being college football stadiums). Because of its popularity and the regional nature of it's "conferences", people wanted to see conference champions match together to see who would win. So fans, businessmen, community leaders, etc. formed committees to raise funds to invite champions to play in their city after the regular season to play in an extra game for bragging rights, a free trip, and money for the respective schools. The fans got to see the match-up of champions they wanted and the business men and community leaders generated more business revenue and tax revenue from visiting tourists coming their city to watch the game. Hence, the bowl game was created. The oldest still in existence is "Rose Bowl Game" which started playing annually in 1916 in Pasadena, California as part of a bigger regional celebration called the "Rose Parade". Last season their were 42 college bowl games in various destinations across the U.S.
Cars wouldn't start, people couldn't get to the game, Max Magee went out the night before and got totally wasted. The fans did storm the field and they tore down the goal post. Crazy game.
if I remember correctly after the 1st play of the game the referees never used their whistles again because they were all metal and one of the refs had his freeze to his lips and tore of a piece of his lip
Yes the hardest thing about that weather is. Catching the ball hurts hitting the ground hurts and getting hit hurts! Coldest weather I ever played in was -20! It’s hurts
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Vince Lombardi is the Patron Saint of American football. The Super Bowl trophy is named after him. Green Bay is a town in Wisconsin which is located very far north in the continental U.S.
Normally Green Bay has very cold weather.
They were going for their third NFL championship in a row. It's confusing because before the NFL-AFL merger it was just the nfl championship.. it was their second super bowl in a row.
By the way it's nice seeing two guys who obviously like sports but are from a different place learning about our wonderful game. Props to you guys for learning.
At this time (1967), the NFL Championship was a semi-final before the Super Bowl. But from the fans and media perspective, many considered this to be the "real" championship. The AFL was a much weaker league, and most people were quite confident that the winner of this game would go on to win the Super Bowl.
The city of Green Bay is a rather unusual crowd. Fiercely loyal to their Packers, season tickets are generational in nature, even to the point that many local families register their new born children so that they can get onto a 30 year waiting listing for seasonal tickets. Why? One of the reasons is the community atmosphere of Green Bay that is rarely matched anywhere in American sports. These folks love their team. The other, is that the Green Bay Packers (the football organization) is actually owned by the city of Green Bay, Wisconsin. This makes it the only major sports program that is owned by a municipality in professional sports. This makes the Packers truly Green Bay.
Thank you for the context Charles, appreciate it
It was called the NFL championship before they renamed it later to the Super Bowl. They actually won the last 3 NFL championships and the first 2 super bowls
That makes sense! Thank you!
@@DNReacts yes, it was confusing. But the NFL was a separate league from the AFL. It would be like the Premier league title winner playing the English Football league winner. At that time the NFL title was more important than the super bowl because the AFL was considered a second rate league. After Super Bowl 3 the NFL merged with the AFL. They are now know as the NFC and AFC of the NFL.
Yeah, technically speaking the old NFL Championship Game is now the NFC Conference Championship Game. The Packers played the Super Bowl in MIami the week after the Ice Bowl.
Not quite. For several years, the now NFC was still the NFL. The AFL was an entirely different league. Their champions met in the Super Bowl AFTER they won the NFL and AFL championships.
@@emeraldcity_ The NFL and AFL agreed to merge for the 1970 season, and part of the agreement was that they would play the AFL/NFL championship game. The last one was when the Chiefs defeated the Vikings. The Jets beating the Colts was not the reason for the merger, as it was already agreed that they would merge in 1970. If you compare the teams that were playing in 1970, the NFL teams dominate the AFL teams in terms of SB wins, keeping in mind that the Steelers, Colts and Ravens (originally the Browns) were NFL teams. Those 3 teams went into the AFC to balance the numbers between NFC/AFC.
In Wisconsin he's known as Saint Vince, for bringing the team back to glory. The heating system under the turf has been replaced by a system of tubes that a heated water solution is pumped through. I can remember in the 70's and 80's during late season games when the old electric system would fail, but not completely just under parts of the field. Many of us in Wisconsin grew up on Lombardi time. Which means, if you're 15 minutes early your on time; 10 minutes early and you are looked at like an outsider; 5 minutes early you're late and on time means you shouldn't have bothered coming. It's a hard habit to change, I still to this day arrive early.
Not from Wisconsin but Texas where football is also huge, we were raised on Lombardi time as well lol
@@xackwerley9184 The coach was a national icon, his beliefs and practices still live today.
i'm a little young for those times, but my parents lived through that. i'm at the age where Rodgers has been my reigning hero since i was younger. so nice to see these guys give some attention to wisconsin tho
NFL Films is basically what made me fall in love with football 💙
That and the sound of John Facenda and Harry Kalas after him.
FYI the temp during the Ice Bowl was -25C, windchill -44C. An elderly man in the crowd actually died from exposure. The Packers did a three-peat twice actually, but the first time was 1929-31, when the championship winners were determined by record. In the 60s, Lombardi's team won 5 championships in 7 years, which no other team has ever done. The Packers are really the most unique team in American sports, not just the NFL. Everyone thinks their team is special or different in some way but it's just wishful thinking unless you are a GB fan. Their history is second to none (most championships, most wins, most iconic franchise), they have the most storied stadium in the NFL, and the Super Bowl trophy is named their coach. They have the longest waiting list for season tickets (about 30 years) and the longest stadium sellout streak. They are the ultimate small-town, working class team from a tiny city of just over 100K, which is unheard of in American pro sports. The sole reason for their survival is because they've been a publicly owned non-profit corporation since 1923, so every cent the team makes goes back into funding them rather than in some billionaire's pockets. The team can never relocate to another city either. It's the ultimate security.
Thank you so much for the info! Really appreciate it!
@@DNReacts Lombardi really was the legend that forged modern day American Football. You should look up his quotes. He was a brilliant coach. My favorite : “Winning isn’t everything. It’s the ONLY thing.”
Chicago Bears, Papa Bear Halas
@@Pallhh The Bears are a poorly run embarrassment of a franchise who have turned the storied CHI-GB rivalry into a joke.
@@douglaswilsmann4599 Only over the last 30 years when the Packers were lucky enough to have back to back hall of fame quarterbacks. The Bears lead the all time series for many years. The Packers now lead 105-95-6. There is a video - The Bears Still Suck that gives the Packer fans point of view of the rivalry.
Lombardi is the most famous coach in NFL history, so much so that the Super Bowl championship trophy is named after him - the Lombardi trophy. This is a tough era to get a grasp on regarding who is "Champion" of the NFL, since the National Football League and the American Football League were in the process of merging. Prior to 1966-67 season, those two leagues did not play in a final "Super Bowl" and there's a ton of history to go with this regarding the AFL being an upstart to the well-established NFL. In 66-67, the AFL was popular enough that the NFL agreed to play in a final "NFL-AFL Championship" game that we now call the Super Bowl. However, there was still a separate NFL championship and AFL championship (later the NFC champions and AFC champions). So, in this game, Green bay won the NFL championship, which was no longer the championship for the entire league since they still had to go on to the Super Bowl and play the Oakland Raiders in a game which they won. In this season, Green bay was both the NFL champion and Super Bowl champion. Just trying to explain this is a total shitshow though, so cheers fellas 😂
The Vince Lombardi Trophy, also known simply as the Lombardi Trophy or even just the Lombardi, is the trophy awarded each year to the winning team of the National Football League's championship game.
Good video. You guys might like another winter game from Green Bay though it isn't as famous as the Ice Bowl. The Packers and the Giants played the NFC championship in January 2008 and it was even colder. The Giant coach's face was practically frostbitten from the cold and the ball was like a rock.
Thank you for the comment Last Edain! Will add that one to our list! Sounds like Packers have had their fair share of tough playing conditions
My dad was only about 9 years old when this game was played, but he could describe what it was like watching it with his dad like he just saw it the day before. The Packers are like distant relatives to football fans in Wisconsin, and the stories I heard from dad and grandpa and the games we watched together always make it a little bit easier to deal with them being gone
00:58 Yes Vince Lombardi was the coach of he Green Bay Packers. He's widely considered one of the best coaches in NFL history. He took over the Packers in 1959 after the team had posted 1-10-1 record. Over the next ten years, Lombardi led them to a 96-34-1 record and 5 NFL championships, including wins in the first two NFL Super Bowls. He had a 9-1 record in the postseason and never had a losing record.
That explains why the trophy is named after him!
@@DNReacts The Super Bowl trophy was named the Lombardi Trophy in 1970, as a memorial to Vince Lombardi, who had tragically passed away from cancer that year at the age of 57.
I love when you guys ask questions and make assumptions, as a viewer it feels like a conversation! I love it, great video! Take care gentlemen
That’s what we are trying to do, engage the viewers and learn as we go! Appreciate it 😀
You guys are my morning ritual along with my coffee.
just a suggestion, some of the best documentaries about the sport can be found at NFL Films. They do an awesome job of building the suspense and story telling, and have been doing it since the 1960's. Used to watch their stuff on VHS as a child.
Vince Lombarbi : won the last 3 NFL Championships (before the Superbowl era) and the first 2 Super Bowls. One of the greatest coaches in the sport (5 time champion, won over 75% of his games). Known as a master motivator as well as a competent tactician. Lombardi believed in doing simple things with consistent excellence and his practices were concise and intense. Lombardi's players were wholeheartedly devoted to him, and his emphasis on hard work and dedication endeared him to millions of fans.
this statement will sum up his career: The Super Bowl Trophy is call "The Vince Lombarbi Trophy"
That’s kind of you to say! Thanks for all the info and the suggestion! Really appreciate it!
I watched this live on television. It was the greatest game ever played in my opinion because of the conditions. Great reaction. Players in those days were tough. A lineman on the team I supported had his jaw broken and played 2 games with his jaw wired shut.
That’s really cool that you got to watch it
The whole documentary on Vince Lombardi is amazing! Would highly reccomend watching it!
This game was before my time. I remember the Freezer Bowl. This game was in 1982, the AFC championship game, Cincinnati Bengals vs. San Diego Chargers (Bengals won!). At kick-off, the temperature was -9F with a wind chill of -59F. The wind chill makes this coldest game played. Yes, the Ice Bowl had a lower temperature but the wind chill wasn't quite as low. The Bengals tried psyching the Chargers out so the offensive and defensive lines played in short sleeved shirts. No grass or heated field, the stadium had astroturf and it was said it like playing on concrete. I watched on TV in the comfort of my home.
That was hard to watch after the Chargers defeated the Dolphins in the Epic in Miami two weeks earlier. The temperature, if you include the wind chill factor in Cincinnati, was over a hundred degrees colder. The Chargers were a warm-weather team anyway, and the Bengals were used to the cold, if not that kind of cold. The only satisfaction I got from the end of that season was watching the Forty-Niners win the Super Bowl.
In 1966/67 the NFL insisted on a TV blackout in areas within a certain radius of where the game was being played. My hometown was within that circle and I had to listen on the radio. Ted Moore, the announcer's voice in this video, was the Packer radio play by play man. I recall feeling more relieved than happy after the win. A friend of mine got a 2 inch piece of one of the goal posts from that game.
To add to what @Lincoln Hawk already said, the NFL had other rival professional leagues pop up over the years. They mostly failed and folded. In 1960 the American Football League started with teams in the middle and western part of the U.S. while the NFL was mostly in the Midwest and eastern parts of the country. They put enough pressure on the NFL that a merger was negotiated to begin in 1970 but starting in the 1967 they agreed for the league champions to meet in what was called the "AFL-NFL World Championship Game.". However the AFL founder and owner of the then AFL Kansas City Chiefs saw his daughter playing with a bouncy ball she had obtained from a coin operated vending machine. The name of the ball was the "Superball". And Mr. Hunt suggested that name for the game and it stuck. That is why it went from NFL championships to the Super Bowl.
Also, the AFL did a really good job of raiding NFL star players by offering them bigger contracts. The AFL had money to throw around and the NFL didn't like it.
I am glad how it turned out though. We got a merger and a great game, the Super Bowl.
The first four Super Bowls pitted the NFL Champions against the AFL Champions, a rival league. After that, the NFL and AFL merged and the Super Bowl became the official NFL Championship Game that pitted the NFL's two conferences against each other, the NFC and AFC.
Vince Lombardi is the man they named that Super Bowl winner's trophy after ("the Lombardi Trophy"). The legend of legends in the NFL, and honestly, one of the great icons of American culture as a whole. Y'all are really digging into it now! 😂
Super Bowl started after the NFL AFL merger was announced in 1966. Before the merger took effect in 1970, both leagues still had their own championship games in addition to the Super Bowl where the NFL and AFL League Champions Played Each other. So there was a 4 year period where we had an NFL Champion and a potentially different Super Bowl Champion.
Starting in the 1970 season, the NFL and AFL Championship games became the NFC and AFC Conference Championship games. Packer won 5 NFL Titles in the 1960s and the first 2 super bowls so the Super Bowl trophy was named after coach Lombardi.
I actually watched a Vince Lombardi documentary about his entire career, apparently Lombardi was pissed going into this game, because he was the one who commissioned the heating system to be installed in Lambeau Field and was quite proud of it. He considered the system failing to be his own failure.
What Bartt did, saying "I'm upright, I can shuffle in." That became the QB sneak play. The Quaterback keeps the ball and gets into the line in an attempt to just shuffle forward and get the touchdown.
I am from Dallas & remember this game. My mother was heartbroken 💔 that the Cowboys lost. 🤠
😭😭
Mine too! The Ice Bowl was a long- remembered game in Dallas. It was really tough on everyone here.
yeah, i remember it too. still a little sting in the ol' heart. but i have got to hand it to Green Bay. they played hard and they deserved the win.
There is a freeway in Dallas named after Tom Landry the Dallas Cowboys head coach during this game. He is the one standing on the Dallas side wearing a Fedora hat... Two Hall of Fame head coaches with this game known as the Ice Bowl...
We’re used to it now
To give a reboot on the game winning drive, the Packers drove 68 yards in 4:19. The temperature had dropped to -18°F with a feels like temperature of -49°F. They were driving into the shadow end of the stadium, where the ice was set in solidly.
They were a glorious machine. The NFL's original icon of Team and Champions, of grtty, tough togetherness. All in the NFLs smallest city(still) & the only(still) community owned franchise. The Green Bay Packers. The stuff of Legends, still...
Added bit of context, the Cowboy's Head coach in this game was Tom Landry, he is accredited with inventing the 4-3 defense is still one of the most common schemes 60 years later. So not only was it a championship game on a frozen field, but also a battle of one of the best offensive minds in football in Lombardi vs one the best defensive minds in Landry. A truly iconic game, you cant tell the history of the nfl or football in general without it being discussed.
Lombardi and Landry were assistant coaches under Jim Lee Howell of the New York Giants. In today's terminology, Lombardi was the offensive coordinator and Landry was the defensive coordinator.
Before the Super Bowl there was 2 pro leagues . The original NFL (NFL champions) and the new AFL .
The two league champions started playing in the "Super Bowl" .
Shortly after the two leagues merged into the NFL giving us what we have today. The two conference champions from the NFC & AFC playing in the SB.
As one of the rare people anymore that actually watched this live I can give you some insight. LOL!! 3:00 The Super Bowl had just started that year. The three championships they refer too were NFL Championships. The Super Bowl was considered an after thought. It as assumed the NFL would beat the AFL handily. And in previous history & a few years after, the assumption was right. Lombardy was a gruff old bird but he (and Dallas coach Landry) was a true gentleman. As I recall GB came out flat. They should have dominated a warm weather team in these conditions. Fun fact - Where it is -40 both Centigrade & Fahrenheit agree.
This video missed the players talking about it. Dan Reeves got hit so hard in the mouth that his tooth went through his lip, but he couldn’t feel it and by the time he took his tooth out of his lip only one drop of blood fell because the rest froze almost instantly.
This was before the NFL became what it was today, before it merged with the AFL. They actually played the Super Bowl two weeks later against the AFL champion Raiders in Super Bowl II. The Super Bowl was still in its infancy at the time.
This has a bit of "Mandella Effect" history for historic football fans
"The Frozen Tundra" aka Lambeau Field got it's nickname from it's insanely cold climate and field and many believed the iconic NFL Films narrator John Facenda coined it when he said in his legendary baritone football voice on the NFL Films broadcasting of The Ice Bowl was
_"On the frozen tundra of Lambeau Field"_
which alot of people see as his most famous line throughout the years.
However oddly enough John Facenda never even said it 😳
Not only that, but there were even earlier reports of Lambeau Field being called "The Frozen Tundra" prior
Steve Sabol (NFL Filmsmaker and then future president of NFL Films) at the time wrote in the script for it to be called "Frozen Tundra" and Lombardi hated it so he wrote it out. However, in the Cowboys perspective of the film it was kept in and Frank Glieber was the film announcer for that film.
John Facenda wouldn't even say that line til years later when he covered a playoff game between The Raiders vs The Browns at Municipal Field in 1980 on the NFL Film "Kardiac Kids" where he instead said,
_"The Frozen Tundra of Municipal Field"_
Which down the line I guess became a mixup and even Chris Berman (sports commentator) would impersonate Facenda and would always bring up the "Frozen Tundra" line when talking about Lambeau field which all in the end really helped enforce a Mandela Effect to an iconic line from an iconic voice that apparently never even happened.
It's also something of an oxymoron. Tundra's supposed to be frozen.
This was 1967. At that time there were two leagues, The AFL and the NFL, The Superbowl was the championship of the two leagues who were going to be merging after the 1968 season. This was the game to decide the NFL champion
The coach of the Green Bay Packers was Vince Lombardi. He was so good, they named the Super Bowl Trophy after him. When you win the Super Bowl, you get the Lombardi Trophy.
In those days the Green Bay Packers were, what we now would call, America's team. They were immensely popular. I remember playing football in our yard in 1962 and everyone wanted to be the Packers.
Now, things have changed. The Packers are not nearly as popular and many people are critical of them. I'm not sure why but that is how it is.
There have been games almost as cold as back then, but we have a lot of technology on our side these days.
Thermal garments, giant heaters on the sideline, hands warmers, sticky gloves, etc.
Ice Bowl was one of my favorite games ever, that and when my Rams won their first Super Bowl against the Titans, great work guys
A wedge is when you line up multiple blockers againt one opposing guy so that they can push him out of the way creating space for one of your guys to get through
If you want to know more about Vince Lombardi. Watch "A Football Life, Vince Lombardi". Very good show. Also if you can pick it up. The book "When Pride Still Matters" is an incredible read. Very hard book to put down. In Northern New Jersey where I live. Lombardi is a big deal here. His first head coaching job was at a Catholic High School in Englewood, NJ named St Cecilia. Won many State championships there before moving on to coach at West Point then the NY Giants then finally becoming head coach at Green Bay. An interesting note...His grandson Joe Lombardi won a Superbowl as an assistant coach with the New Orleans Saints. He was born after Vince passed away.
Third NFL championship in a row. He won three NFL titles in a row, and the first two NFL-AFL Championships (Super Bowl) withnin that time frame. The Super Bowl title is named after Vince, the Lombardi Trophy.
The Super Bowl started as a Championship game between two different leagues, the National Football League and the American Football League, the Ice Bowl was an NFL Championship game, Green Bay went on to face Oakland in what retroactively became Super Bowl 2.
The Super Bowl was different when it first started. The first two Super Bowls (which were called the NFL-AFL World Championship at the time they were played) were played the second and last years of the Packers' 3 NFL championships in a row. As NFL champions, the Packers played the AFL Champions in the first two Super Bowls and won both. The "Ice Bowl" was actually the game before Super Bowl II, and the winner would play in the Super Bowl. Two years after the Packers' run, the NFL and AFL merged into one league with two conferences, so Super Bowl V was the first one that was also the NFL championship.
As stated by other posters, this is a bit confusing, because there were two football leagues: the NFL and the AFL. So this year was the their third NFL Championship. They went on to win their second Superbowl (which then pitted the champion of the NFL and AFL). This wasn't the end of his coaching though. He left the Packers to bring a winning season to the Washington Commanders. Then he died of stomach cancer.
Vince Lombardi is THE Coach. Every year the Super Bowl awards the Lombardi Trophy to the winner. During the 1960s the packers won NFL championships nearly every year BEFORE there was a Super Bowl and the Packers then won the first two Super Bowls.
Been loving your channel!
Something I didn't hear mentioned, it was so cold that the referees couldn't use their whistles. The first ref who went to blow his whistle had it freeze to his face and they had to peel the skin off with the whistle. The wound couldn't even properly scab because the blood froze on his face.
In regards to the wedge, you're trying to create a hole in their line so the guy can break through just to get a couple of yards. Usually when you do this you're trying to pick the weakest person on the line to force them to move.
Thanks for the support, we really appreciate it! Thank you for that context, that’s insane regarding the whistle. Makes sense with the wedge too
Nice reaction guys! I think you’re doing a great job of learning the game! You’ve picked it up pretty quickly, in my opinion. I love these old football films. God, I look at those old helmets and they just seem so useless compared to what players have today. Some of these guys were so broken by the time their careers were over that they spent the rest of their lives in constant pain.
Thank you Johanna 😀
They should do a reaction to Vince Lombardi. Bill Belichick will probably go down as the best coach in NFL history, but Vince was the most special coach
@@patrickkanas3874 This video was primarily about Vince Lombardi, or are you referring to a specific Lombardi documentary? Sorry, I’m confused.
@johannawaldo7103 The last time the Packers won the Super Bowl, there was an HBO documentary about Vince in the days leading up to the game. But some time later, NFL films released an "a football life" special on Vince, which shared pretty much all the same footage. The video they saw was just a segment from that documentary
@@patrickkanas3874 oh, I bet that’s a great documentary! I’ll have to look it up. I was too young to remember him as a coach, but you always heard the name. The coach I remember best was Tom Landry.
To gain a better appreciation of this game, you would need to find the longer version, 1967 Ice Bowl, where the players on each side talk about the game.
I remember that day well. This was the second time the Packers had won 3 championships in a row. They are still the only team to do this.
As far as playing in the cold--remember what Ray Lewis said when he was mic'ed up. 1) "Football is supposed to hurt", and 2) "This is a man's game". Yep.
this is so awesome. Wanted to recommend you to watch the Ice Bowl and magically you did. Right on.
Thank you! We read your mind 😂
Refs stopped using whistles in this game. Early in game ref blew whistle and it was frozen to his lips. He yanked whistle off and his lips was bleeding only to freeze seconds later.
Ha ha glad you followed up on this. Not old enough to have seen this live, but what I remember most from reviews of it, was Cowboy Bob Lilly launching his helmet into the stratosphere in frustration at the end of the game. It was a key moment when Green Bay’s time was running out, but the reigning King still was top dog & holding off the upstarts. I'm 56 years old, and this game was the kind of thing I'd read about or watch on TV as legendary history -- funny in hindsight, when you're a kid something from just the previous decade seems like ancient mythical history.
One of the things the video neglects to mention is that it was so cold, that the referees could not blow their whistles, because their lips would freeze to the metal whistle. Eventually, they had to basically just shout in place of blowing a whistle.
Also, the Dallas Cowboys quarterback was named Don Meredith And he became quite a pop culture star throughout the 70s and 80s. Someone stole his big overcoat from the sideline during the game. 30 or 40 years later the guy who stole it returned it to Meredith’s son while making a documentary.
"Wedge Pugh" meaning they where going to double, or even triple team Pugh to open a hole on his side, they saw him fading, and where going to finish him off.
Wedge is a term that has changed over time. In today's world, the term most appropriate would be submarine.
Jethro Pugh was a defensive lineman for Dallas. He was 6 feet 9 inches in height, but he had a high center of gravity. The offensive lineman opposite Pugh was Jerry Kramer. He realized that if he could get far enough underneath Pugh, then Kramer would open up a hole for Starr to run the quarterback sneak.
The packers are my favorite team, Lombardi is the coach, yes that was snow, it’s the coldest stadium on average every year. It’s nicknamed “the frozen tundra”
The Ice Bowl is what we would call today the NFC (National Football Conference) Championship game (the game prior to the Super Bowl)…Back then there were two football leagues, the National Football League and the American Football League. The first two Super Bowls were played by the champions of these two leagues. After the two leagues merged into the National Football League, the American Football League became the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football League became the National Football Conference (NFC) under the NFL’s umbrella. The modern Super Bowl is a game between the champions of these two conferences to decide the ultimate champion…
3rd NFC championship. This was actually right when the superbowl was starting so hard to explain now vs 1967. They played for a championship and then they started doing an AFC vs NFC then that became the Super Bowl by the early 70’s so the Packers won the first 2 super bowls. But they had won championships in the years before it existed
You guys are fun to watch. May I suggest another historic game from the 1960s - the Heidi game. It forever changed the way NFL games were broadcast on television.
So glad you two found this game. I was personally offended that the other creator didn’t include the Ice Bowl in his video.
Me too! Really glad we did it!
FYI the superbowl trophy has since been called the “Lombardi Trophy”
I’m also surprised this video didn’t dwell on the ridiculous conditions of that day. They severely downplayed it
Lambeau Field is the same field today, they’ve just added to it. The only team owned by the community, Green Bay, Wisconsin.
Vince Lombardi is THE coach. The trophy given out at the Super Bowl is the LOMBARDI trophy. In his time at Green Bay they were the dominant team in the league. This is the NFL championship. The Super Bowl was origionally the game between the NFL and the AFL champions. They eventually merged and now it's just the NFL.
ever since this game, often in my family when someone makes a huge pile of food, we will say, _"You could feed the Green Bay Packers with this meal!"_
and that is why the Super bowl trophy is named the ( Vince Lombardi Trophy)
The Super Bowl trophy is named after Vince Lombardy because his Packers won the first two Super Bowls I and II.
That was the game to reach the super bowl. The Packers won the super bowl 2 weeks later. The Super Bowl trophy is now called the Vince Lombardi Trophy
Game time temperature: minus-25 degrees Celsius. Coldest NFL game ever.
On the game-winning play, Chuck Mercein (#30, a Yale graduate!) expected that he was the ball carrier when he heard the play. Bart Starr (#15) apparently didn't tell anyone but Jerry Kramer (#64) that he was not handing off but carrying the ball himself -- so Mercein was running full speed in anticipation. When he saw Starr with the ball, Mercein put his hands up in celebration but also to indicate to the referee that he wasn't helping Starr into the end zone, which at that time may have been illegal (not now).
The Packers have a solid fan base that travels well. They have sold out every home game since 1961. They have 4 Super Bowl titles, and a total of 13 NFL Championships. They have their own Hall of Fame, and have more team members in the NFL HOF ( which used the Packers HOF as a model) than every team, with the exception of their long time, chief rivals, The Chicago Bears! The Packers are the only team owned by the fans, and operate in this nations smallest economic community for a professional franchise. Don't sell the Packers short by believing the jealous haters. BTW the trophy for the SB is the Lombardi Trophy. Go Pack Go!!
The packers are an overall good franchise and that’s coming from a rival fan but they are usually good
This is why the Superbowl Trophy is called the Lombardi Award. This was the National Conference Championship game. The Winner went to the Superbowl.
The SB trophy is called the Lombardi Trophy, name after Vince.
That’s something I knew! Should have mentioned it, thank you!
There were the AFL and the NFL leagues who came together and merged in 1970 to the modern expanded NFL. The two leagues did not start playing the "Super Bowl" until 66-67 season, which is what this game was being played for. The winner would go on to play the AFL champion, Kansas City Chiefs in the AFL/NFL Championship. While it wasn't until a year or two later, the term Super Bowl would be coined it was retroactively applied to this season you are watching. Before this, the packers had won NFL championships but since they did not play the AFL in a championship game for all of pro football, and thus they do not consider those as "AFL/NFL champions" or retroactively as "Super Bowls".
In the beginning there was the NFL (National Football League). The championship was called the NFL Championship.
As football becomes more popular, along comes an upstart league to rival them named the AFL (American Football League) and they had the AFL championship game.
To settle who was best they agreed to finish the season with a "Super Bowl" between the two winners in each league.
The two leagues would eventually merge into one under the NFL name and the two leagues would become the two conferences that we know today as the NFC (National Football Conference) and AFC (American Football Conference). To this day the winners of these two conferences compete in the super bowl.
The AFL were big underdogs until the NY Jets won the first super bowl for the AFL with quarterback "Broadway" Joe Namath. You should check him out next. I think you'll like him since you liked Deon Sanders.
Great timing boys we are facing a winter storm right now 😂
😂 stay safe!
At that point, it was the 3rd NFL championship. The second Super Bowl between the NFL & the AFL. Two separate leagues that eventually merged a couple of years later. The Packers won the first two Super Bowls, and the Super Bowl trophy is called the Lombardi Trophy in memory of Coach Lombardi.
Someone else I believe answered this but I'll add to it. From 1920 to 1932 the NFL Championship went to the team with the best winning percentage at the end of the season. Starting in 1933 they added divisions, and playoffs. The American Football League(AFL) started in 1960, and the NFL merged with them in 1970. In the 1966-1967 season, the NFL and AFL agreed to have their champions meet, originally called the NFL-AFL Worlds Championship game, which was renamed to the Super Bowl in 1970. The Packers won the 1965 NFL Championship game, which was the last not to be part of the "Super Bowl" era, they went on to win the first 2 Super Bowls, technically making it to where they won 3 championships in a row, but not 3 Super Bowls. The game you reacted to, winning put them in Super Bowl 2. Hope that clears things up a bit.
Thank you!
Vince Lombardi was an extremely famous coach.
The nfl decided it’s winner by record from 1920-1932 then in 1933 they played a championship game which lasted until technically 1969 but in 1966 the “champion” was decided by the Super Bowl and in 1970 the AFL merged into the NFL the packers won 13 championships (most in NFL history) and have the most wins from one franchise
The NFL-AFL merger was the leagues second the first ever league merger was in 1950 NFL-AFFC merger
The Super Bowl trophy is called the Lombardi Trophy because they won the first Super Bowl which at that time was not called the "Super Bowl". It was called the AFL-NFL World Championship Game.🏈
The Green Bay and Dallas winner would go on to play in the second ever superbowl in Jan 1968.
The wedge play is easy to install and is essentially a play that has 6 or more blockers vs. one defender. It generates so much force it literally plows through defenders. The only hope for the defense is to cut the wedge down.
Well done guys! I was like 10 back in those days I was a Packers fan. I can remember watching them any chance I got. For the Ice bowl I felt bad for the fans sitting in the stands. I get cold just watching the videos! See ya again soon!
3 in a row: Lombardi's Packers had won two consecutive NFL championships in 1965 and 66. But the "Super Bowl" was a new thing- in fact it wouldn't actually be called that until 1969. It was originally the "NFL-AFL Championship Game", and was first played in 1966 (the Packers won). But since the American Football League was considered an upstart by the venerable NFL, many fans considered the NFL Championship the ":real" championship- and this would indeed be the Packers' third in a row. (They would go on to win the NFL-AFLCG, "Super Bowl II")
Thanks Bill, love the context!
You might want to look up "The Heidi Game" between the Oakland Raiders and New York Jets. in 1968. Near the end of the game, TV switched from the Game to the Family Movie "Heidi". Oakland scored two touchdowns in the final minutes to win. The TV viewers were so mad they almost destroyed the telephone lines to the TV Network...It showed the Power American Football had at that time even at that time... Switching from an important NFL Game to a Family Movie in the final minutes would be unthinkable anymore....
We Americans are a funny lot. In sports, especially sports, we admire tough players. We love guys who sacrifice for the good of their team. We admire guys who show how willing they are to play hurt, for the benefit of not only their home team, but for the benefit of their home town, and especially for the benefit of their teammates. Playing in lousy weather is just one more example in “tough guy” play. I was not a great player myself, but I did play starting defensive lineman for my high school team, and I remember playing with bruised ribs in one game, and playing with a broken finger in another, and why? Because the thought of letting down my team, even at the age of 16, was hateful to me. It’s just the way we are built.
One point of clarification about the difference between the NFL Championship and the Super Bowl; in modern times, they are the same thing, but in the early days the Super Bowl was a game played between the champion of the NFL (National Football League) and the champion of the AFL (American Football League). The two leagues eventually merged into the one combined NFL that we have today, and modern Super Bowls are played between the champion of the NFC (National Football Conference) and the champion of the AFC (American Football Conference). Many of the teams in the NFC and AFC are the same franchises that date back to the NFL and AFL respectively from before the merger. Lombardi's Packers won five NFL Championships, including three in a row in Lombardi's final three seasons as coach. They played in (and won) the first ever Super Bowl against the Kansas City Chiefs after having won their fourth NFL Championship under Lombardi. The following year, they won their fifth NFL Championship (the Ice Bowl) against Dallas before going on to play in (and win) Super Bowl II against the Oakland Raiders. I hope that all made sense. None of this is really relevant to today's game, but it might be useful knowledge if you're going to continue looking into some of those older games.
Makes a lot of sense! Thank you!
Vince Lombardi was a great coach. He has become a football icon.
The Packers are in Green Bay, Minnesota. They get LOTS of snow.
The goal posts were moved from the front of the end zone to the back of the end zone in 1974.
Great line among many in there--PR guy Lane has to tell Coach the field is frozen and Lane says he would have rather told Coach that "Marie (Lombardi's wife) was running around on him". :)
I also like the part where Vince names Phil Bengston as his replacement. Not because I find it entertaining but because I remember watching this with my dad, rest his soul, and Bengston's name was said, dad immediately said, "and he proceeded to run them straight into the ground".
Let's go! Been a long day at work now time to unwind.
At that time it was the NFL (national football league) vs the AFL (American football league). After that season they merged to both become the NFL. The teams in the NFL became the NFC, (national football conference) and the AFL teams became the (American football conference). I don't think the term Superbowl was even invented until the 3rd one had happened. Lamar Hunt, owner of the Kansas City Chiefs came up with the name based on his children's super ball, which was a very rubbery ball that would bounce off of any hard surface it was thrown at. The trophy like I said was named for after Lombardi since he was regarded as the best coach at the time and had won the first two championships, again not called the Superbowl at the time between the two leagues. I think it was called simply the NFL vs AFL championship the first 2 times.
The Super Bowl Trophy is named after Vince Lombardi
Dallas and Green Bay are both NFC teams... so they played for the NFC championship.
the NFC champs then play the AFC champs in the Super Bowl.
super bowl is always the NFC VS AFC champs... national football league vs american football league
The idea of of a "bowl" game in American football started in college football. In the early years teams just played anyone else in their area who fielded a team. Then regional teams began to form "conferences" that played a more regular schedule. As others may have told you, college football was 1000 times more prestigious and popular than the fledgling pro game up until late 50's when the NFL started working with television. (Hence the ten largest stadiums in the U.S. being college football stadiums). Because of its popularity and the regional nature of it's "conferences", people wanted to see conference champions match together to see who would win. So fans, businessmen, community leaders, etc. formed committees to raise funds to invite champions to play in their city after the regular season to play in an extra game for bragging rights, a free trip, and money for the respective schools. The fans got to see the match-up of champions they wanted and the business men and community leaders generated more business revenue and tax revenue from visiting tourists coming their city to watch the game. Hence, the bowl game was created. The oldest still in existence is "Rose Bowl Game" which started playing annually in 1916 in Pasadena, California as part of a bigger regional celebration called the "Rose Parade". Last season their were 42 college bowl games in various destinations across the U.S.
Cars wouldn't start, people couldn't get to the game, Max Magee went out the night before and got totally wasted. The fans did storm the field and they tore down the goal post. Crazy game.
if I remember correctly after the 1st play of the game the referees never used their whistles again because they were all metal and one of the refs had his freeze to his lips and tore of a piece of his lip
Yes the hardest thing about that weather is. Catching the ball hurts hitting the ground hurts and getting hit hurts! Coldest weather I ever played in was -20! It’s hurts