Bart Starr, and the backfield of Jim Taylor and Paul Hornung was an awesome scoring machine.
RIP
He had a good run and a great career/life! :)
Remember when Brett Favre ‘retired’ and those Packer Fans who were mad at him would say, ‘We’ll Never Forget You, Bart!’
Well, we never WILL forget THIS Bart, that’s for sure!
I watched The Green Bay Packers as a kid at Brown County Stadium in Milwaukee!
A real gentleman may he RIP. Certainly, a far cry from some of today’s divas.
Just a really classy man. Humble, despite all that he accomplished. A really great testimony to his Christian faith.
Brett Favre couldn’t make a good pimple on Bart Starr’s posterior.
Hate the Packers since days of Lombardi, but Starr was truly that
And the first of the great Bama QBs
Starr and Roger Staubach were very similar in that their talents were somewhat modest but they were exceptional leaders of high character who could execute the gameplan of a very demanding head coach. They also had the knack for making that back-breaking play that decided a game, recall Starr’s frozen QB sneak in 1967 and Staubach’s “Hail Mary” pass in 1975.
Off the field, both very devout Christians and humble despite their fame.
RIP Bart.
We’ve come a long way from the likes of Bart Starr, Roger Staubach, etc., to what we have today. Great memories; bless he and his family.
When I was just a young kid I started watching Pro-Football my team then was Green Bay and all the talent they had I loved Starr and my favorite lineman was Jerry Kramer who wrote some good books of his playing.
All of these guy were not only outstanding players but real credits and gentlemen off the field. Real role models that I hardly see anymore before money totally corrupted the game to what it is today.
Thanks Bart for the hours of great classy football, God Speed my friend.
Back when I used to like the NFL he was one of the best. Would even watch some of his games when GB wasn’t playing the Redskins or the Cowboys.
Also an Air Force vet, served at Eglin AFB in Florida; played for Eglin Eagles... MVP super Bowls 1 & 2; big time Roll Tide! RIP Bart, my childhood hero!
In one of the books about the Packers, maybe the Kramer one, it is mentioned that Lombardi wanted Starr to be the team leader.
Soon after telling Starr that, Lombardi jumped all over him during a practice. Later Bart came to Lombardi and told him that if he was going to be the team leader, it was not right for the coach to belittle him.
Lombardi agreed and never did it again.
Bttt.
5.56mm
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 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.
