1966 Packers at Rams GOTW week 15

[@IMEMINE.]

Two penalties for the entire game… the players didn’t motion for any of them. Couple of razzle dazzle plays. Fun to watch Don Anderson in his rookie season before we knew him as Donny. The Sweep with Anderson carrying was beautiful. 72,416 paying customers in a stadium that’s still functional today in 2022. No crying No whining No helmet grills for most players. Great stroll to remember when…

[@johncirillo9544]

There were 8 penalties enforced in this game. Four Packer turnovers kept the Rams in this game. Carrol Dale owned Irv Cross in this one. Super Bowl I would be played in the LA Coliseum less than 4-weeks later. Packers-35 Chiefs-10 Go Pack Go!

[@danh1945]

The NFL in the 60's? A great great time.

[@ldfreitas9437]

@@danh1945 Saw a lot of games on the TV and one at Kezar Stadium, 49ers at home versus the Rams.

[@thecantankerouscollector]

Look how bold those horns are on the RAMS helmet.

[@Maceasy]

Good ol day’s football. These times made me in love with the sport. 😂

[@tommythomason6187]

Packers were smokin' in 1966.

[@garrison6863]

A really good game, two excellent teams.

[@michaelleroy9281]

15 week season because of the new Atlanta Falcons ( NFL is now a 15 team league for this season so 1 team has a bye week for every week of the season)

[@stevenmarcus5192]

I remember watching this game.

[@TorMax9]

I sure like that "super slow motion". What will they think of next? Man going to the moon? Men growing their hair long? Women burning their bras?

[@michaelleroy9281]

But then that's California 😂

[@KarlRosePhotography]

I was a big Rams fan when they had Roman Gabriel and Always a Lions fan

[@michaelleroy9281]

Lombardi was probably sitting all the regular players for most of this game

[@bemore1134]

Most of them seemed to be out there, but Fuzzy Thurston played very little if at all. Gale Gillingham was in his rookie year & got a lot of run at OG in this game.

[@8avexp]

@@bemore1134 Zeke Bratkowski was out there in place of Bart Starr.

[@ldfreitas9437]

Hornung got in for a few plays. He had that pinched nerve in the neck. It would be his last game as a player, as the next two he sat out, though in uniform, versus the Packers in Dallas and SB1 against the AFL Chiefs.

[@8avexp]

@@ldfreitas9437 During that Super Bowl, Lombardi asked Hornung if he wanted to go in late in the game, and Paul declined, not wanting to aggravate that injury.

[@lemontadams3029]

Irv Cross was getting burnt by the Packers receivers

[@forrestunderwood3174]

The Packers were deeeeeep.

[@johncirillo9544]

In ‘66 the 12-2 Packers scored 43 touchdowns and allowed only 17 touchdowns! Jim Grabowski fumbled twice in this game. Those were his only fumbles during the ‘66 season. I recall watching this game and being very disappointed that Bart Starr wasn’t playing. Nine year olds don’t understand resting your starters, ha ha. Go Pack Go!

[@FrankB1001]

@@johncirillo9544 Starr was hurt in the Colts game and sat this one out to be ready for the championship game against Dallas.

[@daleburrer1546]

1966 is the last year the Packers defeated the Rams in Los Angeles.

[@curtislowe4577]

Rams O-line and secondary was very porous. Probably why they were in a must win situation. Rams were pretty much just an also-ran during the 60s and 70s.

[@stevea6816]

not entirely true. they were bad until 1966 when George Allen became head coach and were immediately respectable. the next year they were arguably the best in entire NFL, though lost to Packers in playoffs.

[@greghobbs1728]

To add to Steve’s truth, the Rams had the highest winning percentage in all pro sports in the 70’s.

[@curtislowe4577]

@@greghobbs1728 Really? I've seen at least one documentary that makes a similar claim for the Raiders. (Though that might have been a AFL/AFC claim.) A high winning percentage means absolutely nothing if it doesn't come with championships. Except as a way for the fan of an also-ran to make a useless claim. At least the Raiders won the one Superbowl they got to. Aside from that one season the Raiders were also-rans. The Cowboys were the best team in the NFC of the 70s. Hands down. They went to five Superbowls which was four more than the Rams. They even won two. Which also made them the only NFC team to win a Superbowl during the 70s. Until the 1979 season the NFC team in the Superbowl was either the Cowboys or the Vikings with the Skins getting in once. The Rams were also-rans in a weak division and an admirable winning percentage only meant consistently disappointed fans having to say "next year". And when next year finally came what happened? They ran into the best NFL team of the 70s and discovered that they were still also-rans.

[@dougamundson6836]

To: @joejordan.....you are kidding, right. They're is a contraction for 'They are'. So you said, 'They are front four'. Did yoou EVER go to school? Or if you did, pay any attention while you were there?

[@ldfreitas9437]

Another long-time player was in this game, and it would be his last as a Ram, who he played with for two years as a starting flanker back (they're all wide outs now): Tommy McDonald, face-mask-less! One other long-time player was in his last game: Bill George, who the Bears traded to the Rams after the '65 season, as he had been replaced at middle linkebacker by Butkus.

[@jeffmerklin2022]

Tommy McDonald still a hold out on face mask. Looks goofy

[@ldfreitas9437]

He had been wearing a single bar face mask when he was an Eagle. Then he got rid of it when he was traded to the Cowboys in 1964.

[@jeffmerklin2022]

@@ldfreitas9437 Thx for this note. I've watched film of him and especially the '60 title game, and I thought he had one then. Then I saw this and a couple other of his Rams game and didn't see one, plus I'd recently read an article that said he didn't have one. I was just assuming my eyes were bad.......this explains the situation.

[@ldfreitas9437]

Paul Hornung's last game that he played in. He did not play in the championship game nor Super Bowl 1, though suited up.

[@joejordan1259]

The Rams were a super mediocre team in those Years. They're front four, always neutralized against the packers.😅

[@8avexp]

They hung 55 points on the hapless Giants a month earlier.

[@michaelleroy9281]

​@@8avexpThat same Giants team that lost 72-41 to Washington and 49-40 to Cleveland

[@dape8993]

One month later, The Packers would return to the L.A. Coliseum to beat the Chiefs, 35-10, in the first Super Bowl.

[@8avexp]

They took out the end zone bleachers for the USC-UCLA and USC-Notre Dame games, put them back in for the December stretch run, and took them out once again for Super Bowl I. The playing field was left all the way at the closed end of the Coliseum, however. It wasn't shifted back and forth.

[@MrOneHotDog]

If Gabriel doesn't throw that interception, the Rams make the playoffs. 🤦🏼

[@stambly-s6v]

Only the Eastern and Western Conference champs made the playoffs in 1966. Green Bay had already clinched the West.

[@michaelleroy9281]

The hinky dink losers playoff bowl in the hinky dink town of Miami, according to Lombardi, that where the Rams would be going if they won this game