Posted on 05/26/2019 9:45:49 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
Thank you, Sir, for being my childhood hero, as I grew up in Wisconsin in the 50s and 60s! Now, you have rejoined the team of legend, led by Mr. Vince Lombardi! RIP!
Very sad news, but it had to happen eventually. My dad and his business partner had season tickets to the Packers games in the 1960’s, and once in a while my brother and I would get to attend a game at Milwaukee County Stadium. I got to watch Bart Starr and other Packers stars as they dominated the NFL (Paul Hornung was my favorite). I watched the Ice Bowl on TV while I was in college, and one of the other students there was a rabid Bears fan and Packers hater. After the Packers won he kept complaining that there was movement along the line, and the Packers should have been penalized for a false start and hence lose the game. Good times, good times...
RIP Bart. You represented the best of the game of football. We were lucky to have you with us all of these years.
I’m a Bears fan, and I have nothing but respect for Bart Starr. RIP.
I always thought that one of the great coincidences in history is that, just before the height of Beatlemania, the Packers had a center named Ringo snapping to a quarterback named Starr.
great stuff! I didn’t know that! :)
Couldn’t have said it better myself.
The DB did have good coverage. What made the play a “Hail Mary” (unlike the many desperation end zone bombs we see today) is that Pearson was the only receiver on that side of the play and, for a moment, Pearson thought he did not have the catch. It wound up lodged between his left arm and his left hip and he was able to secure it before it fell away. The Minnesota fans will forever say that Pearson pushed off but I do not see that on the replay. The defender lost his balance trying to reach for the pass. (and I’m NOT a Cowboy fan so I’m not being a homer).
Years later, Jerry Kramer (who was immortalized for the block on Jethro Pugh on that qb sneak) admitted he did move early but the refs didn’t call it. Come to think of it, the officials called very little because the whistles were freezing to their lips and causing skin to tear off any time they had to be removed from their mouths. The odds were good that even if the officials saw a false start, they were unlikely to call it.
Yup, Nitschke is among the elite all-time best linebackers, a tremendously hard hitter!
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