1966 Green Bay Packers

[@clifforddriver9434]

Bart Starr didn't get enough credit for being a great quarterback. He could literally do everything that you want out of the position. Rest in peace, my brother.

[@russellseilhamer4552]

I went to a graduation at Central Cambria HS in Ebensburg PA. I saw a black and white picture in the gym under a case where there are trophies. It was Ron Kostelnik. I was excited and was telling everyone; hey, that guy was the starting defensive tackle for 5 Packer championship teams. He went to work for a local lumber company. Ex packers tended to get nice jobs working for local companies back then. He died in a car accident in Kentucky in 1983. He had taken a vacation in FL and was going back home to Wisconsin. He was born in central PA but his forever home was Green Bay, a man who left quite a legacy worth recognizing

[@jerryferko-v9s]

thank u classic sports ........ a lot of terrific mmories with these games .....and players ............ Lindsey Nelson ......... Ray Scott .....ETC ........ Just Good stuff .... ....

[@margaretjiantonio939]

If I recall correctly, Starr called his own plays. Starr was like a coach on the field.

[@danerichter2289]

When men were men.And football players were players!@@!!

[@yeildo1492]

1:45 Taylor catches what is now called a Texas Route. Starr was the league MVP in 66 and averaged 14.5 yds per completion. (Not a typo) The starting defense had 29 ints.... that is a lot in an age where teams threw much less than now.

[@JCKAMK]

He also threw only 14 touchdowns for the season. Different game.

[@yeildo1492]

@@JCKAMK Much different. No doubt.

[@stevereber]

Thnx for compiling all of what's available into one 💪

[@EdsterIII]

Man these guys were tough. Bart Starr, Paul Horning, and Ray Nitchke were tough as nails. Starr for a QB was not a Diva like the guys nowadays. He took some brutal shots. Seeing these games, even highlights show todays fans what football was like when dancing and acting like a clown wasn't acceptable or accepted.

[@DarthRambo]

Wow what an incredible game that was. As a Cowboys fan it sounds like another playoff loss where we could've easily won. Down 14-0 before you get the ball killed them.

[@ciesaro]

Ray Scott/ Al Trautwig called him "The Voice of Doom"

[@timtebowsleftarm5368]

A near-GOAT of a team. One of the top 3 defenses ever. They could still run the ball, and Starr had as good of a big play passing game as any modern QB. (They just didn’t throw short as much.) As many 40+ TD TD throws as Brady/Mahomes/Rodgers today, and even fewer picks. And he went off in the postseason. They came 4 points from going undefeated.

[@yeildo1492]

In 66 Starr was the league MVP and averaged 14.5 yards a completion. Not a typo.

[@yeildo1492]

@Uncle_Rushie Many feel that the 62 Packers were better. 13-1, 5 HOF on defense. The Packers' +267 point differential (points scored vs. points against) in 1962 is the best total of any NFL team in the 1960s. Cold Hard Football Facts says that the 1962 Packers "may have been the best rushing team in the history of football.

[@bigmike4962]

@@yeildo1492 Yeah as great as this '66 team was, the '62 team was probably the best ever (sorry Phins fans).

[@yeildo1492]

@@bigmike4962 Agreed. A lot of those 72 Dolphins who also played in 73 say that the 73 team was better.

[@alcoholfree6381]

I was 13 years old and we didn’t have a TV set yet. We used to go skiing at Mount Ashland in Southern Oregon. Instead of skiing I would sneak upstairs in the lodge to watch NFL! The Packers were my favorite team by far. What teams they had in those glory years! One of the best teams ever. Vince Lombardi rated the three most important things in life as God, his family, and the Green Bay Packers in that order! What a great coach and a fun team.

[@wiedep]

Ironic that the Atlanta game was played in Milwaukee, the Braves had just vacated County Stadium for Atlanta less that 2 months before.

[@michaelleroy9281]

Actually at the end of the 1965 season, County Stadium had nothing going in 1966 except for the Packers

[@alcoholfree6381]

@@michaelleroy9281 Great comment! It brought to mind another documentary that noted the same fact as you have made. I’m 70 years old and I enjoy these games more than the modern games!!

[@williamkirby3552]

They don't say how much time was left on that final Packer drive.

[@ldfreitas9437]

Great call by the Packer announcer Scott on the TV for that late season game in Baltimore: Starr drops back to pass after the pass, and Scott is silent in the TV booth. Starr passes to a wide open Pitts. Scott says "Pitts." Next thing he said, about two seconds later, "touchdown!"

[@FalkTim]

What a great compilation. Too bad you couldn't find any footage of the Dec 4 game against the 49ers at Milwaukee County Stadium. I was at that game and it would have been a real kick to see the highlights.

[@ldfreitas9437]

Just a reminder that the 49ers beat the Pack earlier in the season at Kezar in SF.

[@Derangedforsure]

After watching this, I think the current Green Bay Packers should take Malik Willis, and turn him into Paul Horning.

[@JCKAMK]

There were a lot more turnovers back then, and missed field goals.

[@ldfreitas9437]

The same about the game of rugby union. Missed conversion kicks and penalty kicks are rare in the modern game, and knock-ons (fumble forwards) don't happen as often as they used to decades ago, pre-professionalism (1995). Now the top level games are played with few mistakes and subsequent turnovers. Top players train all week, don't have day jobs like in the days of amateurism, when players even at the international level had to work, and training sessions were a few hours after work twice/week.

[@robd2721]

More late hits on QBs and spearing of ball carriers, too!

[@ldfreitas9437]

They put the Sam Spence music in this highlight film. I remember seeing that Brown v Packer game on the TV Sunday morning on KPIX, CH5, San Francisco, as the 49ers were home that day and obviously blacked out in the SF and Monterey Bay Areas. Hornung eventually hurt his neck and was replaced by Elijah Pitts at halfback. Hornung didn't see much action the last few games and didn't play in the Championship of Professional Football, AKA Super Bowl 1.

[@8avexp]

Hornung was actually asked by Lombardi in the fourth quarter of Super Bowl I if he wanted to go in, but Paul said no, not wanting to aggravate that neck injury.

[@JCKAMK]

That was the first year they used Sam Spence music for background instead of the marching music .