Was Packers Ice Bowl Win A Fraud?

[toto1939]

I was watching a replay of the 1967 game last night, and I think that maybe the Packers got away with an uncalled holding penalty during the game.

 

[Aven8]

Talk about bad officiating, the winning score where the full back pushed the QB into the endzone, which was illegal at the time. You will see his hands going up on the film like he is signaling TD, but he was actually holding them up to say he wasn't guilty!

 

[big dog cowboy]

Yes.

 

[perrykemp]

Can you blame the referee? He was having a pretty bad day:

From the Wikipedia article on the Ice Bowl:

The officials were unable to use their whistles after the opening kick-off. As referee Norm Schachter blew his metal whistle to signal the start of play, it froze to his lips. As he attempted to free the whistle from his lips, the skin ripped off and his lips began to bleed. The conditions were so hostile that instead of forming a scab, the blood simply froze to his lip. For the rest of the game, the officials used voice commands and calls to end plays and officiate the game.

 

[HoustonSucks]

Instead of bedtime stories about wizards and princesses my dad would put me to bed with tall tales of Cowboys past... and this was one of his favorites. According to my dad, the answer to your question is yes, yes, it was. And he always hated Lombardi....

 

[MS17]

Yet Kramer's celebrated book "Instant Replay" glorified the Packer legend, how they won the Ice Bowl that day. Guts, determination, destiny, yada yada. The Cowboys actually outplayed them. Dan Reeves played a helluva game. I watched, in black and white. Trivia question. Was Pat Summerall at the game?

 

[Nirvana]

 

[sbark]

ya but did they apologize.........and did Obama weigh in also?

 

[perrykemp]

ya but did they apologize.........and did Obama weigh in also?

LBJ would have had to be the one to weigh in.

 

[windward]

LBJ would have had to be the one to weigh in.

No way. I'm interested in what 6 year old Barack's opinion was.

 

[Rick_Deckard]

What is kinda funny is that years later Kramer still insisted that he did not move early, but he admitted with a smile that the center moved a little late.

 

[LittleBoyBlue]

ya but did they apologize.........and did Obama weigh in also?

The Apology Tour kicks off Feb 2, 2015

 

[Gridiron Man]

This is why I hate that the Steelers lost. We have a golden opportunity to send a message via a win over the Packers nation, and I'd like that road to go through Steelers nation as well.

 

[RS12]

 

[RS12]

How did you try to ward off that terrible weather?

Bob Lilly: We had long-handle underwear. Had we known it was gonna be 16 or 18 below zero, we would have all gone down to the sporting goods stores and bought us some good heavy socks and bought us some turtleneck long-handle underwear, plus ski masks, wind deflectors (they had them under their helmet). They sold them in Dallas. Ernie (Stautner) didn't want us to wear gloves because he said only sissies wear gloves. We had on long-handle underwear, we had on our regular uniform, we had on no gloves, we had no neck protection. We all took an ace bandage and wrapped it around our ears and taped it, put our helmet on. We put seran wrap around our feet over our socks. We had capes that we wore on the sidelines, but they didn't even have a zippers. We had two heaters on each end of the bench. Those heaters blew air but the (hot) air would never get to us because the wind was blowing it away. We just froze to death. We could never get loosened up. It was just a nightmare. We were all thanking the Lord when we got on that airplane and it was warm. We said we lost the game but we're alive. We just felt like we were gonna beat 'em. And Saturday we really felt good about it because the weather was pleasant. And the next day, to have the weather turn on us was kind of devastating.

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[DogFace]

Sounds uncomfortable.

 

[Sarge]

I've gotten over it just like Detroit fans need to...

 

[mattjames2010]

The amount of care I have for a game that long ago is non-existent. I'm sure if I was alive at that time and old enough to remember, I would have enjoyed such a game; but watching it now, in this time period, that was the big stage and it was still boring to me! Maybe it's the old equipment recording, the different style of commentating, or every player looking like they run a 4.7; I don't know! I'm just not connected to those Cowboys, so whatever happened happened.

 

[JoeKing]

I was watching a replay of the 1967 game last night, and I think that maybe the Packers got away with an uncalled holding penalty during the game.

There are uncalled holding penalties during every game but none of them are frauds. No, I do not subscribe to your idea. Packers won on that day.

 

[Longboysfan]

Dam....