Bart Starr QB sneak in Ice Bowl
On New Year's Eve 1967, the Dallas Cowboys faced the Green Bay Packers in a rematch of the NFL Championship Game from the previous season. It is still the coldest NFL game in history. The weather in cold Green Bay was - 12 degrees at game time. It was dubbed the Ice Bowl. The mechanism designed to keep the playing field at Lambeau Field from freezing failed. Several players got frostbite. Some players thought the game would be rescheduled. Officials pondered canceling the game until they realized that the next day would be considerably colder. The game went on, but the Wisconsin-La Crosse marching band's pregame performance was canceled because their lips froze to their mouthpieces.
The game was fiercely contested. With 16 seconds remaining in the fourth quarter and Dallas leading 17-14, Green Bay performed a 67-yard drive that brought them to the one-yard line (really about a foot from the goal line). People watching the game could see the time left, yard line, down, score, and the temperature, which was - 20 degrees. On the next play, Packer guard Jerry Kramer pushed Cowboy defensive tackle Jethro Pugh off the line of scrimmage, allowing quarterback Bart Starr to dive across for the touchdown and a Packer victory. It was their third consecutive NFL Championship.
Date: New Year's Eve, 1967
Venue: Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wisconsin
