Rugby Fan Reacts to VINCE LOMBARDI and The Ice Bowl!

[@birdieboy103]

In the Ice Bowl there was only 1 whistle blown the entire game. They used metal whistles then, the referee blew the whistle and pulled off some skin on his lips. The blood immediately froze because it was so cold. The rest of the game the refs yelled stop and the players listened

[@MJOLNIRchief90]

It's hard to overstate just how much of a legend Vince Lombardi is, especially here in Wisconsin. There are cancer clinics all over the state, named in his memory. I doubt you could find much footage to react to, but you might want to do some research into Earl "Curly" Lambeau, the founder of the Packers. The team has a pretty unique early history that I think you would enjoy learning about.

[@truejelly2817]

I love meat packing

[@ajthenascarexpert]

I’m from Wisconsin

[@thekrls1]

Not a packers fan but howdy from Madtown!

[@tracysnow349]

Nice! Awesome. Good to see you doing this. I almost crapped my pants when I saw your vids on NFL and you didn't know who the Lombardi Trophy was named after.

[@folkblues4u]

If you love the NFL and love the history of this sport, you can't help but love this story! And that's coming from a Bears fan, ladies and gentlemen! That is the reverence i have for this game.

[@garybrockie6327]

Lombardi started coaching at a small catholic high school in New Jersey. After a few year’s coaching football the school asked him if he could also coach basketball. Lombardi had never played Basketball in his life. He got a book on basketball from the school library that was written by the coach of Southern Methodist University in 1921. He coached his first basketball team to a state championship! The Packers had a record of 1 win 10 losses and 1 tie in 1958. Lombardi told the 1959 Packers in the first team meeting; “We will relentlessly pursue perfection, knowing fully well nothing is perfect. Nevertheless, we will relentlessly pursue perfection because along the way we will catch excellence. I am not remotely interested in just being good.” He did a TV series on football called “The Art and Science of Football” My Dad coached a middle school team and I used to watch it with him. The attention to detail was amazing.

[@satsunada]

The temperature was -15 with wind chill's up to -48. That's -25 C for temp and -44 C respectively. That's dangerous weather and easy to get frostbite. A lot of the fans brought blankets so they wouldn't freeze to their seats. Only one whistle blew during the game because the ref had to rip the metal off his mouth because it froze to his lips. They used hand gestures and yelling for the rest. Now, that's sometimes stable weather for Green Bay and part of their home field advantage, same as most northern teams. It's absolutely no fun when a dome team or a team from Arizona or Florida get to come to Green Bay, Chicago, Buffalo, or Foxboro in December or, worse, January.

[@SteveFakerson]

If you can find a good full documentary on the Ice Bowl to watch in your spare time, you should take a look. It was a mystically fascinating game and really is worth a full feature.

[@NativeHawaiian]

"Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing. You don't win once in a while; you don't do things right once in a while; you do them right all of the time. Winning is a habit. " - Vince Lombardi

[@seattlewa8500]

He is a legend. That is why the Super Bowl trophy is called The Lombardi Trophy.

[@jameswilson7790]

To put the game winning drive into focus, it was -18°F with a feels like temperature of -51°F or -28°C and -46°C respectively. The Packers had to score in the shadow end of the stadium where the ice was the most slippery. And they scored, knowing that if they didn't, then they would have lost because they had used all their timeouts and couldn't stop the clock.

[@pushpak]

“Even though it is a national tournament, the award was initially inscribed with the words "World Professional Football Championship". It was officially renamed in 1970 in memory of NFL head coach Vince Lombardi, who led the Packers to victories in the first two Super Bowl games, after his death from cancer. It was thus presented for the first time as the Vince Lombardi Trophy in Super Bowl V when the Baltimore Colts defeated the Dallas Cowboys 16-13. It has also been referred to as the "Tiffany Trophy" after the Tiffany & Co.” - wiki

[@kiwikicker9263]

Thanks for the informative explanation!

[@DougRayPhillips]

Super Bowl V was also the first post-merger Super Bowl, and therefore the first one that was also an NFL Championship game. Prior to that, there were NFL and AFL championship games each year, and when those two Champs then met in Super Bowls it was kind of an afterthought interleague game. Not even well-attended.

[@ElvisRose_]

@@DougRayPhillips Although, the other teams & coaches all placed a tremendous amount of pressure on Lombardi & the Packers going into that first Super Bowl. It was less of a game where you win for your team & your fans but you win for all of us in the NFL.

[@DougRayPhillips]

@@ElvisRose_ That is true. Just by being created, and competing for some top college players, the AFL had driven up the salary market and had messed with TV contracts. The NFL team owners badly wanted to dominate those first interleague championship games (whatever we call them) so that the upstart AFL wouldn't gain any further legitimacy. So they were calling the Packers before SD1 and telling them "win for all of us." I even remember an editorial in TV Guide before SB2 called "What if the AFL should win?". Basically it said that the NFL was better, but we couldn't tell how much better. It said it was a given that the NFL team would win. But if that team didn't win decisively, it'd be an embarrassment. And if it lost, they'd have to leave town. Well, SB1&2 worked out as expected. But the AFL won SB3&4. Then the merger happened, and several NFL teams (some of which were originally All-America League teams) were transferred from the new NFC to the AFC so that each conference would have the same number of teams. Over the years, some other teams have switched conferences and have gone to the Super Bowl from both sides. So, there's still quite a bit of historical background for fans being loyal to either the NFC or AFC, but not as much as there might have been. Some folks even want to abolish the conference distinctions and just send the overall best 12 or 14 teams to the playoffs.

[@1cuno]

They didn’t wear gloves back in those days but they damn sure needed em 😂

[@ketchuploverful]

Vince was part of the "Seven Blocks of Granite" at Fordham University

[@kylebreslin7261]

Great vid! Really enjoy your videos

[@TexasRick]

“Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing.” Lombardi actually admitted years later he regretted saying that. He wanted his players to give everything they had for the team, but he said it hurt him to know that when they didn’t win the team felt like losers.

[@ElvisRose_]

However, there are some coaches/teachers who can only unite their players by making themselves the object of their hatred. It is sometimes, sadly, more unifying to share a mutual hatred for something or someone.

[@223enema]

Lombardi was the Packers GM the year after he retired from coaching. But he missed coaching so he took the head job for the Washington Redskins in 1969, his true last year as an NFL head coach. He guided them to a 7-5-2 record, their first winning season in quite a few years. He died of colon cancer in the off season at the age of 57. A great book about his final season is “Coach: A Season With Lombardi” by Tom Dowling. It’s an excellent read of the man, warts and all. Now out of print but there’s used copies for sale online.

[@williamjordan8603]

The college equivalent was Bear Bryant, who died 2 months after retiring.

[@theblackbear211]

The problem wasn't that they couldn't have the power on, the problem was that the air was just too cold.

[@bob_._.]

Back then, linemen would sometimes wear gloves but never ball handlers. Technology hadn't yet developed gloves flexible enough and sticky enough to grip the ball.

[@IskurBlast]

Yeah receiver gloves didn't really enter the market until I was a kid.

[@francislajeunesse8313]

Here is some info about the temp in case no posted it yet: "Dubbed by the sports media as "The Ice Bowl", the game-time temperature at Lambeau Field was about −15 °F (−26 °C), with an average wind chill around −48 °F (−44 °C); under the revised National Weather Service wind chill index implemented in 2001, the average wind chill would have been −36 °F (−38 °C)."

[@erikscheunemann8082]

Vince could be incredibly harsh, but let no one say he didnt love his boys.

[@savannah65]

He was loved by his players, and they wanted to please him.

[@debradowling800]

The commentators coffee froze in the press box.

[@IskurBlast]

In that famous last shot #30 isn't holding his hands up to signal touchdown. He is holding his hands up to show that refs that he isn't aiding the runner because he doesn't want a penalty.

[@kiwikicker9263]

Haha awesome

[@matthewcostello3530]

Meredith's facial muscles were so frozen he couldn't call plays or signals

[@kiwikicker9263]

Haha man now thats freakin cold!!

[@matthewcostello3530]

@@kiwikicker9263 oh yeah not the coldest game ever but the coldest played on natural turf, a couple of the players had permanent frostbite

[@rickyveal9602]

The Ice Bowl: Packers vs. Cowboys, Coach Vince Lombardi vs. Coach Tom Landry. You should really checkout Coach Tom Landry if you haven’t already. He coached the Dallas Cowboys for 29 years and led them to 5 Super Bowls, winning two of them.

[@IskurBlast]

Think about the 1954-1958 New York Giants. They had Lombardi as the offensive coordinator and Landry as the defensive coordinator. Head Coach Jim Howell said his main job was to make sure the footballs had air in them.

[@kiwikicker9263]

😂😂😂

[@suziewheeler6530]

The ice bowl....the coldest game ever played

[@warrenbfeagins]

Just saw LOMBARDI. That's an AUTOMATIC like.

[@gregcable3250]

If you wonder how big Lombardi is?--Lombardi Trophy is what you get when you win the Super Bowl.

[@zacharysnyder2520]

Lombardi is a football God. He helped to make the game what it is.

[@223enema]

Lombardi did come back for one more year as head coach of the Washington Redskins in 1969. Read “Coach: A Season With Lombardi” by Tom Dowling. The best book about Lombardi, pro football, and America during the 60s.

[@zacharysnyder2520]

Playing in the snow is such a pain

[@forreal2398]

The reason for the players not playing with gloves is they would have had to use the same kinds of gloves as a farmer they didn't have any sports gloves yet. And the former name for the Lombardy Trophy was * World Championship Game Trophy *.

[@knix200129]

From Brooklyn, NY!

[@runner6500]

People overlook or don't realize how important the first Super Bowl was. That's the basis for the Lombardi legend. He was a good coach, but if the Cowboys had won it, it would be the Landry Trophy. It was the most important football game ever played (my opinion), the only true "Super Bowl". Followed by the next two.

[@NolmDirtyDan]

Still waiting on a Devin Hester video, I know im not the only one whos been requesting him

[@scottsuem3384]

watch the fog bowl

[@Valhalrik]

Check out the Fog Bowl Bears Eagels

[@jdveit227]

Appreciate the videos. Do what you gotta do for your family. Family comes first.

[@sturmination]

If you truly want to learn about the man Vince Lombardi, you should spend a few minutes reading some of most famous quotes. I personally guarantee that your time will not be wasted. For example: "Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is." "There are three things that are important to every man in this locker room. His God, his family, and the Green Bay Packers. In that order.” "Second place is meaningless. You can’t always be first, but you have to believe that you should have been - that you were never beaten - that time just ran out on you.”

[@nithinvinod9759]

Yess the greatest coach of all time and my inspiration for the strategy side of the game

[@schadestreams8068]

I'm a bears fan and you know our rivalry with the Packers is legit but can respect the Pack because (as a Bear fan) my top 3 coaches all time are: 1) Halas, 2) Ditka, 3) Lombardi.

[@PanteraMark]

R.I.P. Bart Starr.

[@ginzingtonschnizer2330]

while it's not as impressive as the ice bowl, the fog bowl has some memorable moments. There's actually someone who posted the whole game but the fog doesn't happen till towards the end if I recall correctly.

[@pushpak]

Aaaah, the Ice Bowl!

[@ittdust]

It was originally called the World Championship Game Trophy. I literally just learned that.

[@IskurBlast]

You should do a reaction to the Epic in Miami (Chargers at Dolphins 1982) and Kellen Winslow's performance. Still regarded by most as the single greatest guttiest performance in the history of the game.

[@gtaylor2455]

Winslow being carried off the field after the game because he lacked the strength to walk. There has never been a game where someone gave so much. He literally left it all on the field.

[@DougRayPhillips]

This has perhaps all been covered in the comments, but... The Packers are the oldest NFL team. But the Bears (originally the Decatur Staleys) are the oldest continually-existing NFL team. The Packers had their NFL membership suspended for a year, in the 1920s, for using players who were still in college. The first years of the Packers, under player-coach Curly Lambeau, were very successful. Their very first year, they outscored their opponents 565 to 12. They won several NFL championships, including a three-in-a-row. But eventually, Lambeau "went Hollywood," and then quit. And the Packers were in for a long dry spell of mediocrity. In 1958, they went 1-12-1. Two assistant coaches for the New York Giants, Vince Lombardi (offensive coordinator) and Tom Landry (defensive coordinator), were both considered very good. Green Bay recruited Lombardi, while Landry eventually went to the expansion franchise at Dallas. Lombardi rebuilt the Packers. Mostly by just whipping the existing personnel into shape, as opposed to by drafting and recruitment. His first year, 1959, they posted a winning season. Second year, they went to the NFL championship game. But lost to the Eagles. They won NFL championships in 1961 and 1962. In 1962, they won every game except for Thanksgiving Day at Detroit. 1963 and 1964, they finished second in their division. 1965, 1966, 1967, they won NFL championships. Another three-peat. As a separate event, after the 1966 and 1967 seasons they also won the first two Super Bowls ever played. As the vid says, Lombardi was worn out. He may already have had colon cancer at the time, but he wouldn't get tested. He resigned as head coach, appointing one of his assistants as his successor, but stayed on as General Manager. That's no spot for a natural-born coach, so after a year of that he resigned completely. He became the head coach of the Washington Redskins. Started to rebuild them. But the cancer caught up with him. I don't think he made it to the regular season in his second year there. So yeah, the Lombardi Colon Clinics in Wisconsin are a "don't let this happen to you" reminder. After Lombardi left the Packers, they had another long drought of mediocrity. Until 1992 when they started to snag some good modern-era coaches, and got Brett Favre and then Aaron Rodgers at QB.

[@DougRayPhillips]

Actually, I guess I was incorrect. Looks like the Chicago/St Louis/Arizona Cardinals are the oldest NFL team. Authorities differ on some of these details.

[@herbiesnerd]

Neither of those two videos shows his legacy. Vince Lombardi and John Wooden were the two most legendary coaches of all time in American Sports.

[@macwatson7227]

Lol no it would no “electrify the field”. It was just so cold that the warming system was ineffective.

[@davidcasey7261]

I am a Bengal fan but I got to respect the frozen tundra but if you really want to watch a cold game look up Bengals vs chargers "82" playoffs -59 below with the wind chill

[@crimedog7576]

You have to check out Michael Vick, from his days at Virginia Tech, to the Falcons, to his trouble with dog fighting that landed him in major trouble... to an eventual stint with the Eagles. One of the best running QB's ever, and very accurate downfield. Also, left handed which is confusing for the linemen :P

[@tracysnow349]

I saw you watch about Brett Favre and when they said the Vince Lombardi is coming home. You didn't know what they were talking about. Now you know.

[@PanteraMark]

One game you should check out is The Heidi Game. It's on KZbin

[@kentgrady9226]

Unless you have taken a junket to Antarctica, you've probably never felt temperatures that cold, being a New Zealander. It is miserable. Everything hurts. Every instinct tells you to curl up and conserve heat. Muscles and tendons tighten up. Fingers and toes go from cold to numb to stinging and back to numb. In other words, the body begins to go hypothermic. It's awful. I can't imagine playing a football game in those conditions.

[@kiwikicker9263]

Tell me about it! Our averagw temperatures in Auckland barely shift from 10C in the winter to 30C in the summer. Only horrible part of our weather is humidity. Its often at 100%

[@donwilly8725]

Coaches to check out : bill walsh, bill parcels

[@cherylann9781]

Don Willy Bill Walsh was a great coach. He knew not to mess with the worlds smartest quarterback. He let Montana be Montana and call his own plays.

[@commissaryarrick9670]

Can you watch Carlin isles and Perry Baker highlights they are Americans that play Rugby sevens . I would like to hear your thoughts on their skills since you know alot about rugby

[@kiwikicker9263]

I will get into them but a bit later down the track theres a few more important topics to do with Rugby I have to cover first.

[@commissaryarrick9670]

Kiwi Kicker ok thanks

[@kmoore448]

You should check put The Greatest Show On Turf. They are kind of like the foundation of most modern day offensive schemes

[@krisgordon3116]

-15 Degrees Fahrenheit

[@davidorioli3870]

WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON OUT HERE?

[@PanteraMark]

GRAB GRAB GRAB NOBODY TACKLING JUST GRABBING EVERYBODY GRAB GRAB GRAB!!!!

[@sebastionashley9456]

I love these vids

[@jcaliberty8288]

5:57 lol

[@zinnmiester]

Legendary person

[@Obeefnik]

there is a reason it's called the lombardi trophy

[@jleak4408]

No need to apologize

[@t-moneysac-town1164]

Check out frank gore

[@seansteyer8851]

Dude, love the videos...but you have to see Dick Butkus Number 10 player all time but also the hardest hitter all time!

[@kiwikicker9263]

Butkus video dropping tomorrow!

[@itsdallaslowe3393]

Is that an inter Jersey?

[@kiwikicker9263]

It most definitely is.

[@itsdallaslowe3393]

O cool I'm not much of a fan but I like icardi

[@223enema]

Sorry for the repeat statement.

[@ryanbrown8037]

You should react to the super bowl with the giants vs the ravens super bowl 35 I believe widely considered the best defensive performance in NFL history!

[@knix200129]

No need to watch it. Very boring game. (Giants fan)

[@ryanbrown8037]

knix200129 hahaha! It was a “great” game!!

[@knix200129]

​@@ryanbrown8037 I will say that the Giants were a surprise to be even in the game. I went to both the NFC division and Championship games that year and flew down to Tampa to be "in the atmosphere". In the 1st half, Jesse Armstead intercepted a Dilfer pass and ran it back for a TD....only to have it called back by a DEFENSIVE LINE holding penalty. After that, the wheels fell off the bus and we got demolished. That Ravens team had an incredible defense and Jamal Lewis.

[@liduck52]

Maybe they should not have put the tarp on the field.

[@amythechocoholic5761]

Holy crap. -38°F is somewhere around -70°C. Insane.

[@austinlorge6448]

It reached -50 here in Wisconsin this winter. -38 is nothing! 😂

[@amythechocoholic5761]

I think I stayed in Arizona too long, because I need to get the fuzzy hat and scarf out at anything below 35°

[@puggzsley]

You follow American football?

[@aigasonoa837]

You should react to Eddie Jackson Free safety great ball hawk.

[@kaybevang536]

React to “America’s Game 1976 raiders “especially “ A football life Al Davis “

[@tracysnow349]

OMG! Pay attention!!!

[@jeffborowiak8992]

The offence froze in the ice bowl?

[@earlbond007]

Hey let us know if you ever come to Green Bay area I will show you around before a game

[@quinnhilligoss9498]

React to Lawrence Taylor

[@Genesiscoupejay]

Check out Super Bowl 42 giants beat undefeated patriots

[@JaviFC20]

Deshaun Watson reaction!

[@mikedimat7817]

Damn, 2nd comment