The Most Iconic Game In NFL History Was Rigged...
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- Is the NFL Rigged? In this video, we explore that question and dive deep into the sketchy past of one of the most iconic games in NFL history. This NFL conspiracy is an interesting one, and maybe by the end of this video, you might believe the NFL is rigged. Anyway, if you enjoyed this video, then like and comment if you want, and you can even subscribe if you think I've earned it.
The dark Lovecraftian creature revealed itself, Barry McCockiner with flesh practically oozing off his skin, revealed the NFL scandals, and showed his acolytes the most rigged sports moments. Now that the 2023 NFL draft is over, we've seen Aaron Rodgers and Tom Brady play golf with urinatingtree, and produce many NFL highlights. This is an NFL conspiracy theory on the ice bowl, which could be used to highlight heaven.
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So Lombardi scheduled the weather to be below zero for the game? He was better than I thought
It wasn’t an electric blanket. It was an electrical wire systeM Buried under the field. This caused high humidity and when the blanket was pulled off it froze almost instantly.
Bros also pretending like the packers were trash. The team was the 2nd best at rushing that season.
@@BigCatOO91 they were far from the best athletically by then. Most were getting long in the tooth. They were the best “team” and best trained.
As a bears fan i will accept this uncritically from the Packers
as a cowboys fan, same.
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As a life long packer fan I find it interesting how we have periods of utter dominance followed by decades of garbage. I’d Love doesn’t work out, history shows it’s going to be a looooong time until we’re good again. At least history also shows the rest of our division won’t take advantage of our down time 🙃
We ain’t falling off
don’t forget the one random bears championship in the middle!
Except that when The Packers were mediocre in the 70's and 80's, they had a different front office structure. After they drafted Tony Mandarich and he was a bust, the people responsible got fired and they changed up the front office structure. As someone who endured those 70's and 80's teams, I don't see them falling that far again for decades.
When you think about it... the difference between favre's first year on the roster to now is the same as the time between his first year on the roster and 1959
My uncle, Robert Kercher, played for the Packers a couple games in 1943/44. I am also a lifelong fan. They still have the most championships, even 1943/44.
As one who was an 11-year-old diehard Cowboys fan at the time, I will say without hesitation the Ice Bowl was not rigged. First, this was the coldest game in pro football history, and only a couple of games since then have even approached it. Not even the home team, the Packers, had experience playing football at -15 with a strong wind out of the north. But being the cold-weather team playing at home did give a little bit of a psychological advantage to the Packers over the warm-weather Cowboys. Once the Cowboys, down 14-0, decided to focus on football more than the weather, they dominated the game up until the Packers' final drive. It was a heartbreaking loss. But it wasn't rigged.
Thank you you are correct . This idea of being rigged is rubbish. 56 yrs later we have a ridiculous theory.
ACTUALLY, THE GREATEST PRO FOOTBALL GAME EVER PLAYED WAS IN 2022, THE VIKINGS COMEBACK WIN OVER COMING A 35 POINT DEFICIT !!!!!
Well, the last play of the game at the goal line, the Packer guard, Kramer, definitely moved early, but the refs did not catch it or did not call it.
@@karencarter8292 thank you Karen your correct.
They’re all rigged sucka.
When you first teased a video about an iconic NFL game being rigged I thought this was gonna be about Super Bowl III.
Same here. I always wondered if it (SB III) was rigged.
Superbowl lll was the Jets vs the Colts. The Packers won SB l in Jan 67 and SB ll in Jan 68.
Only idiots think Super Bowl III was rigged!
That was actually an AFL-NFL game.
@@orbyfanthe last official AFL championship game was when the Chiefs beat the Raiders in '69 then KC went on to beat the Vikings in SB IV
Lombardi did not retire, He resigned and went to the Redskins.
Not rigged. Lombardi was pissed that the field froze. Packers had to play on that field as well.
“Pissed” he feared his creation would end up helping the other team. Could you imagine if the field wasn’t frozen due to Lombardis invention. Packers fans would be blaming that creation for not winning that year. He knew 1 way to avoid that. He was covering his own ass and got lucky by stealing a win too.
@@lakewestchase read When Pride Still Mattered. You're wrong.
@Rich Baritone agreed, Lombardi was pissed. Watch his a football life too.
Who even cares I'm looking for this years 🏈 Foot Ball. 👈 😁
I posted this Rich :
I saw the game. Both teams played in the same conditions. The 1967 Raiders were 13 - 1. They had the # 1 offense and the #2 defense in the AFL .They outscored their opponents 33.4 to 16.6 that year. The average age of the players was 26.1 . They were destroyed by 19 points by the aging, cheating Packers 33 to 14 in Florida, where the kick-off temperature was 68 degrees. No warming blanket for the crybaby Cowboys. No crying from the floppy eared Cowboy Fan who I doubt was alive when the Cowjokes last won a Super Bowl . I am a Giant Fan , and you sir, are full of donkey dust.
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At this point, that Brady pic is going to be sentient in two weeks. 😱
This is the absolute biggest stretch of the imagination I’ve ever heard
ITS BS SO HE CAN GET PEOPLE TO WATCH!!! I GIVE HIM THUMBS DOWN. IDIOT!!
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0:26 wouldn’t the ‘58 championship game be the most iconic though
probably you could make the case for sure, but lombardi and landry were there for both so I thought that would at least add some points in the ice bowls case.
@@tubfrogthe most iconic football title game, it was the first time it was televised nationally and it went into overtime 1958
The only thing I will say about this theory is the fact that the cowboys actually started making a comeback and stopping the packers until the packers final drive.
Cant believe giants were stupid enough to not make at least 1 of these guys they're coach.they paid for this for 20 years. Couldn't happen again could it. Oh giants hired ray handley in 91 and not someone called belicheck when parcels stepped down. doooah.😢
Landry should have given Bob Hayes some warm gloves.
In the 1975, AFC Championship game, the game was played in a Pittsburgh winter game.
It is claimed that ground crew watered the side lines.
Game time (which I was in the stands for) the side lines were coated with ice.
This hurt the Raiders passing game.
You shoulda let them borrow some of your salt to melt the ice.
I wasn't at this game. But Pittsburgh media all played video of 'Dirt' Dinardo, head groundskeeper at 3Rivers, cheerfully hosing down the Raiders sideline. Hose in hand, big smile on his face.
The 2 teams absolutely hated each other, personally and collectively. An awful lot of fans of both teams still do.
I still love old 'Dirt' and am glad he did it.
The side lines were white with ice.
@@Justin-hv7eu You're a retard
This might be the first NFL conspiracy of a game being rigged I actually believe
The last super bowl was thrown. A stadium on the desert, with a roof, with two weeks to get ready, was flooded? All to slow down the historic eagles pass rush because the NFL new golden boy was hurt. They need a new Brady. Why did the eagles all have to change their cleats. Why didn't a single chief?
I promise you 57 was rigged. The field manager was a decades worker for kc stadium. He is 94. And this is all fact you can look up. And they still should have won. But that flag at the end put a stop to that
The first?
Doug Peterson held his REAL practices in Minneapolis in 2017 inside a hotel ballroom. He held fake practices in the dome. He knew after the eagles first super bowl with new england was known as part of spygate. And the eagles lost by a lousy 3. Doug fluty came out and said he accidentally picked up Brady's helmet and it didn't shut off at the time that it was supposed too. Flutie was stunned. Their linebacker said an HR before each game. They'd have a paper taped to their locker telling their plays. They'd know their opponents plays. This is how they cheated, and many more ways over their long run. Brady did all little things to get edges other qbs didn't have. Air otta the all, yeah that helps, grab a big fully blown up ball try to throw it, now let some air out and see the amount of control you gain. So Pederson let them film fake practices, and they were up 22 12 at the half. They won the game right there. The eagles of 2017 were too good to overcome a 10 point deficit. Even though they did, the eagles were gonna score, they did, and won 41 33. Find a cheating QB belicheat bc your methods won't work without a cheating QB. And Andy Reid, all those ppl that called you a fat slob, and I picked up for you, your time management was terrible I picked up for you, I ain't picking up for a cheater. Your team took that advantage of a flooded field in the desert, in a roofed stadium, how'd all your players just know to have mud cleats on in a desert stadium but not one eagle did. Howd every eagle have to change their cleats but not one chief. Howd a chief fan get to handle the field operations, a decades long chief field manager who is 94 and ready to die, nothing to lose? I won't pick up for you anymore and goodell, you're as impotent as ever.go crawl in a fuckin hole you piece of trash.
You've never heard Brian Tuohy explain why and how they are rigged then ?
Another fascinating look back…I appreciate you mentioning Lance Rentzel off the field actions. He was married to the talented, incredibly sexy Joey Heatherton but showed his junk to a ten year old after already being busted doing the same thing when on the Vikings…he showed junk to girls, but they reduced his charges, he pled guilty to disorderly conduct, no jail time, just told to see a shrink and got to change location to Dallas. Joey divorced the perv.
I wouldn’t put it past Vince Lombardi to unfix the field, my dad was a huge fan of him, his coaching style, and the Packers. As a girl I read Jerry Kramer’s book INSTANT REPLAY-still have the book-which was a diary of the Packers 1967 season. Great book, parts so funny, as you learn the players respected their Coach but were scared of him. Lol. Thanks…
In the Ice Bowl, Jerry Kramer cut down Dallas defensive tackle Jethro Pugh at the line of scrimmage which opened the gap where quarterback Bart Starr squeezed through into the Lambeau Field end zone for the winning touchdown with 13 seconds remaining. Lombardi said Kramer was the best guard in football.
HE WAS OFF SIDES FACT THE GAME SHOULD HAVE BEEN POSTPONED UTTERLY STUPID
If You carefully watch that play, You will notice Kramer started moving before the ball was snapped. Jerry Kramer was 1 of the greatest guards ever. It's a shame he had to wait more than 40 years to be inducted into the Hall of Fame.
@@seveglider8406 SAME WITH CHUCK HOWLEY AND BOB HAYES HOWLEY WAS ALL WORLD AND PLAYED HUGE IN PLAYOFFS IMAGINE HAYES WITH MAHOMES AND REID HE WOULD HAVE 24 TDS A YEAR AND 200OK YARDS FASTER THAN T.HILL AND NICER PERSON
@@helpisontheway9405 I don't know if Howley is in the Hall of Fame. He should be there! Hayes was a blazing fast receiver. His hands were not great. However, he gave defensive coordinators nightmares.
@@seveglider8406 BRO, HOWLEY GOT IN THIS YEAR BUT IS SO ALZHEIMERED HE DOES NOT KNOW IT AND NOT TRUE ON HAYES HE HAD GOOD HANDS ACTUALLY AND FIELDED PUNT RETURNS RARELY FUMBLED AND HAS BETTER AVG RETURN THAN NEON DEON
My dad was at the game. He loved it and wore it as a badge of being a Packer's fan.
Yeah it was not rigged in the slightest. The weather caused Lombardi’s underground electric cable to heat the field failed in well below sub-zero temperatures. It’s not difficult to see how, especially given that late 1960s technology was nowhere near as advanced as today.
to go the lengTh of the field ,,frozen,, in 30/40 plus below zero wind chill with minutes left in an all or nothing after getting thier ass kicked the majority of the game to score with 8 seconds left ,, that was NOT green bay on the field,,,, that was VINCE LOMBARDIS collective mind set !!!!!ON,,,,,THAT,,, FIELD. COLD,,WIND,,, FROZEN FIELD FOOTING,,,,,,,THE MENTAL TOUGHNESS,,,,,, OVERCOMING ADVERSITY,,, everything that man taught/preached/hammered for damm near ten years was PERSONIFIED/PLAYED OUT ON,,,,,,,, THAT,,,,,,,,,,,, ONE ,,,,,,,,, DRIVE!!!!!!! RIGGED MY ASS🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
Assuming Lombardi screwed up the playing conditions for the Cowboys, he also screwed up the field for the Packers. His team while older, had much more experience and mental toughness.
All I can say is BOTH teams played on the same field, and IF the Cowboys were so much younger and better how did they lose?
Lombardi didnt retire after that season. He went to Washington.
I think you could have done a much more interesting video on Joe Namath and the New York Jets upsetting the heavily favored Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III. Colts defender Bubba Smith is on record as having said some of his teammates gave less than a super effort. More importantly, this was the third year of the post-merger era, and the AFL teams were outclassed so badly in the first two contests that owners were beginning to question whether the original AFL teams were just watering down the sport with inferior talent. The victory by the Jets may have saved the NFL as we know it.
Yeah that might have happened, but it’s important to know that the merger happened in 69 while the merger was in 70, so this game basically caused the merger
Super Bowl 3 was no upset nor was it rigged. The arrogance of the Baltimore Colts cost them the game . They didn’t do any scouting of the New York Jets whatsoever. If they did, they would have known that blitzing Joe Namath was not smart. They also would have known that Don Maynard was not healthy going in the game and Gerry Philbin was going to be a problem on the defensive line. They got outplayed. The main reason for merging the two leagues was rising player salaries. The owners didn’t want to pay more money for players by competing with each other. Having two football drafts was doing exactly that.
@@charleswilliams6758 WRONG COLTS HAD WIDE OPEN WR'S ALL GAME AND QB'S JUST DID NOT EVEN THROW TO THEM THE OTHER COLTS SB WITH DALLAS ALSO RIGGED HORRID REFS, MORTON WAS LEFT IN AND BESIDES PLAYING LIKE A TOTAL HIGH SCHOOLER LANDRY LEFT HIM IN COLTS COULD NOT COVER HAYES YET EXCEPT FOR THAT GREAT 41 YD BOMB HE CAUGHT TOM IGNORED HIM IMAGINE IF ANDY REID HAD HAYES WOWOZA - BOMBS, ZIG ZAGS, SCREENS, U NAME IT NOW THE NFL IS SO SCRIPTED AND RIGGED NO ONE I KNOW EVEN BOTHERS WITH IT ANY LONGER LET ALONE THE MORONIC ANNOUNCERS AND THEIR BLATHERING MOUTHS WTF
Second time in a little over four years the Colts had come into the Big Game completely cocky. I was at the other one: Cleveland 27 Baltimore 0 in 1964. 43 point swing from the thread. Blanton Collier might be the best coach missing from Canton.
From what I’ve read, the AFL was in serious danger of folding if they didn’t win Super Bowl III, as they were beaten so badly in the first two Super Bowls that both the public and investors were losing interest and willing to take their money elsewhere.
Run that last play! No false start. No hand off. Green Bay just blew Dallas off the line of scrimmage
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The problem here is the Packers had to play in the same conditions
Watched this game in the lobby of the Adolphus Hotel in Dallas a day or so before the Fightin' Texas Aggies beat Bama and The Bear in the Cotton Bowl.
It's conceivable that Lombardi pulled the plug on the warming blanket, but both teams had to play on the same field.
This is the essence of " home field advantage".
The Giants could’ve had Lombardi or Landry and got neither, spending the 60s and 70s in obscurity
Well you have 1 thing wrong half way through. The day before the game was 32 and perfect. The extreme cold was unexpected. No way Lombardi cheated.
San Diego Chargers had to play in Cincinnati at -40 windchill temperature for 1982 AFC championship game
Right guard Jerry Kramer moved early before the snap as Starr snuck over the line. Refs should have penalized GB and moved the ball back 5 yards.
Yes Kramer did move before the snap. It wasn't the first or the last time refs missed a penalty.
Lombardi did once what Bellichick and Brady with Tampa Bay did dozens of times
Gotta go with Al Davis " just Win baby".
the amount of tape on the tom brady photo 😂
Needs more
Bill Belichick did something similar in the 2003 AFC Championship in Foxboro. Manipulating the heating system on and off until he got the desired field conditions he wanted. That’s just part of having the home field “advantage”.
Total BS! Both teams had to play on the same field.
I wonder if the electric blanket was ever checked to see if it malfunctioned
There's a LOT of misstatements here, but afterwards the lead engineer who designed the system said it was only designed to work as low as zero and it was going to have issues below that temperature. When the blanket was pulled back, a layer of dew had formed on the ground and the underside of the blanket, and it instantly froze. Lombardi had no idea this would happen. Someone who wears winter caps at room temperature probably doesn't understand what happens at -13.
It would have only taken one switch to turn off the heat to the field so this is plausible. The trick would have been to make sure the people who knew how it worked weren't around to turn it back on.
I remember that game vividly, and I could not understand why the NFL bosses did not postpone it. However, one can see Lombardi's tactics. He figured the Packers were far more acclimatized to those horrible weather conditions. Big advantage for the Packers.
On the final quarterback sneak touchdown it has been said that guard Jerry Kramer who Bart Starr followed into the end zone was offside because he jumped just before the snap of the football.
Jerry Kramer said that ONLY to anger Cowboys’ owner Jerry Jones. He told me so himself.
Jerry Jones, 1967, you shoulda said Tom Landry. HaaHaa!
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The Cowboys' owner at that time might have been Tex Schramm.
@@ceepersandenderdragonssvlo4812 I believe Tex was the GM. The owner was Clint Murchison.
@@jgorman515 nonsense, even if he did say it. here on youtube you can see for yourself a stop camera replay clearly showing it. but it was a split second
As a Wisconsinite, The myth is Lombardi pulled the plug himself as he left late when everyone else had left😂
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The story only proves that Mother Nature was a Packers fan.
When are you doing your next position evaluation video ?
Me when rigged ice bowl:🫨
Bob Hayes took his hands out of his pants on plays when he was the intended receiver.
The NFL is showing TV commercials admitting they are scripted. Going head to head with WWE
The "blanket" wouldn't have made the players any warmer, just would have made the ground softer. 3 of the 4 touchdowns in the game were scored through the air, including the first 2 by the Packers. You make it sound like the teams could only run the ball in these conditions. Seems like the cold was the main factor in the game. I don't think Lombardi had any control over the weather.
FYI...as a studio musician, a popper-stopper is ONLY needed when directing vocal pressure directly in the direction of the mic within 3 - 6 inches. So yea, your cool for needlessly using it.
Exactly the kind of thing obsessed Lombardi would have done 🤔
There's 90 seconds of my life I'll never get back...
If Starr wouldn’t have fumbled it wouldn’t have been close.
And don't forget the false start not called on that 3rd and 1 play.
Jerry Kramer moved jus before the snap on the Bart Starr TD
Sour Grapes from a Cowboys fan.
This guy’s entire argument hinges on Lombardi somehow having controlled the weather to even out the playing conditions.
I hope this is supposed to be a satire.
The Colts were paid off to lose the 3rd Super Bowl to the Jets, to help the AFL becoming relevant and profitable.
The Jets were crap after that game.
The Colts were then transferred to the AFL for some reason, so they could win Super Bowl 5
This sounds like a upset Cowboy fan to me. Poor thing.
As a lifelong Cowboys fan, I love this theory video. However, I don't believe it was a rigged game. This game occurred a little more than 3 years before I was born I do have a few points to mention about NFL games being rigged. 1. Packers legend Jim Taylor admitted in his (auto?)biography he was offsides on the play. 2. While this might have been the first game where a team deliberately messed the field up due to the weather, it definitely wan't the last. The Steelers did something similar in one of their AFC Championship games(may have been the 72 playoff game vs the Raiders best known for the "Immaculate Reception). 3. This was somewhat of a common occurrence through at least 1980. The home team back then often hadbheaters on the sideline to help the players stay warm while they didn't allow the visiting team the same luxury(most ntably the "80 NFC Championship game between the Eagles and Cowboys).
jim taylor didnt play in the ice bowl he was in new orleans watching the game ice bowl! if you know the facts before commenting you would know that jim taylor left the packers after super bowl 1 to play for the saints
@user-nz9wr7nk2n then my friend who is a diehard Packers fan was wrong. Maybe it was a different player.
To think they wouldn't have won the Super Bowl against KC if they're hung over wide receiver hadn't had an MVP type game.
You know after losing these two consecutive championship games on the last play of the game, if the cowboys had one of these two games the super bowl trophy will be named after Tom Landry😮😮😮
In 1967, the cowboys were not 'one of the most iconic franchises in sports'.
Let it go the Packers won the damn game THE ICE BOWL pretty sad when someone has a grudge after 56 years
I find your vids entertaining, but for your postulation that the game was rigged, I'd like to use a colloquialism from one Sherman T. Potter. "Horse hockey."
I AGREE,,,,,,,,,to go the lengTh of the field ,,frozen,, in 30/40 plus below zero wind chill with minutes left in an all or nothing after getting thier ass kicked the majority of the game to score with 8 seconds left ,, that was NOT green bay on the field,,,, that was VINCE LOMBARDIS collective mind set !!!!!ON,,,,,THAT,,, FIELD. COLD,,WIND,,, FROZEN FIELD FOOTING,,,,,,,THE MENTAL TOUGHNESS,,,,,, OVERCOMING ADVERSITY,,, everything that man taught/preached/hammered for damm near ten years was PERSONIFIED/PLAYED OUT ON,,,,,,,, THAT,,,,,,,,,,,, ONE ,,,,,,,,, DRIVE!!!!!!! RIGGED MY ASS🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
Bob Lilly was an awesome player! Saw him as young kid. He was always in the backfield!
Yes, "iconic." Everything is iconic now. Even if it isn't.
And, no, Hayes did NOT keep his hands in his pants on every play. According to the Packers, he kept them in his pants if it was a run.
If a pass was called, his hands were out.
Lombardi didn't want his field to be frozen bro.....he was as shocked as everyone. If you want a conspiracy field game, look at 1981-2 AFC Championship game in Miami. Jets coaches accused Shula of watering down the field even more before the game.
Adjusted for inflation Lombardi spent over $750,000 to beat the Cowboys
he was the greatest coach ever left to soon
In his own mind too
Spoken by a person who knows nothing about Vince Lombardi or NFL history. Lombardi was notified the field froze when he arrived. There is so much more to this story
I never even heard of this!!! 🤯
A bit of stretch. The system broke down during the evening because the temperature dropped about 30 degrees in a few hours. This was the late 60’s and these technologies were fairly new.
104 yrs later since the Black Sox scandal and people say your'e reaching/stretching/fos/etc etc etc etc etc etc etc and so on and so forth COMPETITION IS NOT REALLY COMPETITION BETWEEN 2 OPPOSING TEAMS ANYMORE AT ALL WHATSOEVER............
More technology like magnet gloves/balls/goal posts etc etc etc ...
Super Bowl III would be a great video as a rigged game. I have felt that was always fixed.
Lance Rentzel was NOT a pedophile……he was a flasher….
Just to clarify terminology, "rigged" or "fixed" is when outside or higher parties conspire to make a particular outcome inevitable, such as gambling figures getting players to fail or play poorly, or getting officials to call the game in a biased way. Even if your premise here is true, the term "cheating" is more accurate. A home team creating conditions favorable to the home team has a long, unfortunate history. Each team won only 9 games? That is not impressive at all. The reputation of the teams that year was better than the record. The very next year, the Colts went 13-1 before losing the Super Bowl.
I watched that game , and I have bet football for over 50 years. That game was NOT rigged . The best way to rig a game is TO BUY AN OFFICIAL TO THROW THE HOLDING FLAG on a key play or two or BRIBE A PLAYER. This type of GAMEMANSHIP is still going on today ! How about New ENGLAND and the SNOW PLOW ? I see this in every sport and it is called HOME FIELD ADVANTAGE ! You can see it in BASEBALL all the time . Both teams played on the field ! Oh , and the SUPER BOWL was not called THE SUPER BOWL back then , and no one even cared about it . Back then the NFL CHAMPIONSHIP was far more important , The AFL was considered a minor league until SUPER BOWL 3 and the JETS humiliating the 18 point favorite COLTS. This is total MOUTHWASH !
They actually won 5 championships in the '60s...1961, '62, '65, '66, & '67
Two things: Cowboys were not legendary. They were a young upstart team. Second it was too cold to be involved in a rigged game.
Miami Dolphin vs New Jets championship with not covering the field from the rain...
I don't mean to call this into question and risk becoming called a Packers fan, but there are about five major flaws with your whole video.
#1. You're suggesting that Lombardi made sure the game was played in Green Bay, like he had some say in it. Everyone knew the homefield advantage rotated between the two divisions each year. It was well known that the winner of the Packers division would be the home team. And for proof all you have to do is remember the year before the title game was played in the Cotton Bowl. I know Texas is a little behind the times but I'm pretty sure they even had schedules back then and they just look at if they got confused.
#2. You suggest that because he hinted at the machine breaking down in an interview that this is somehow proof of it being deliberately broken. As if Lombardi would mention his plan on national TV a few weeks before his master plot. Lombardi was many things, a blabbermouth was not one of them.
#3.) You hinge the entire argument on the fact that the game was somehow rigged on this one possibility. Rigged implies nothing is left to chance. His team could have just as likely gone out and got beaten in those conditions. The simple fact is if the Cowboys knew they were playing outdoors in Green Bay, Wisconsin in January, and they didn't plan on it being cold then they are a pack of window-licking, short-bus all-stars. That's not rigged, that is just poor planning (to understate it).
#4. You say the system had worked well in all the games leading up to this game. Yes, they weren't dealing with -14⁰ in those games. The system broke because it was so cold it actually broke the system. You're laying a serious accusation on here and if that's all you have as "proof", I think you owe the Lombardi Family an apology. That's a horrible thing to imply with such scant evidence, my guy.
#5.) Go back and watch the footage of Bob Hayes. He was nullified in the game because if he was running routes his hands would be out and ready, and tucked in if not. That's not proof of anything (except that you didn't even watch the footage of the game before commenting on it...that and that Bob Hayes is overrated and probably not a Hall of Famer in my eyes). Again, if he didn't know how to get dressed in cold weather so his little hands were warm, then he's a moron. He's a 30 year old grown man. That's a disgrace to all men named Bob.
Fun fact to end on: the idea cold weather city teams know how to win in the cold is statistically invalid. There is no proof that cold weather has deleterious effects on one side winning or that other teams just "know how to win in the cold".
Horrible argument- “the field was cold”. But both teams were playing under the same conditions, so using the term ‘rigged’ is inappropriate
Know the difference between "cheating" and "rigged." What Lombardi did was cheating - rigging would be if the commissioner took the refs aside and said "hey boys, we really want the green and gold playing for us in the AFL-NFL Championship game, make sure that happens." Or if a few of the Cowboys players took some money to throw the game. Breaking the rules to give your team an edge is just cheating.
Bruh the first video I see after clicking on this video is the ice bowl game from nfl films lol
I’ve had to do pep band at a game in below 0 weather. All of the instruments froze and when we went to play ice shot out of them
Anybody else noticed that there is more tape holding up the Tom Brady poster every video?
How was it fixed? Green Bay was 16 seconds away from LOSING the ice bowl.
Both Coach Vince & myself are both natives of N.J.; therefore there is no non-kosher activities performed.
Joe Montana thinks Bart Starr is clutch.
Not really sure you understand what 'rigged' means. "Rigged" is to assure a desired outcome. At best this evened the odds, assuming Lombardi knew the Cowboys hadn't brought any cold weather gear. Those field conditions made it worse for the Packers, as well. Packers averaged 24 ppg.
Don't know if the game was rigged or not. If you watch the last touchdown you'll notice a false start by Jerry Kramer which was not called, though.
Didn't they have the same personnel the year before when they lost to the Packers? The Cowboy's points came on a trick play and a Packer turnover as I remember. The Packers were the better team, championship forged. As far as a conspiracy, not hard to imagine 60's technology not working correctly. The Cowboys weren't ready to win yet, even in the Blunder Bowl with the Colts.
The game should've been postponed, no question. Dallas wins that game going away on a dry field. Their speed would've been the difference.
Sounds like sour grapes to me.
This seems a little far fetched for me, I don't think the game was rigged.
Tom's looking like he needs more tape.
Football is fixed. Lombardi would never follow the script. He wanted to be a winner. When Lombardi retired The Packers were lovers for two decades.
As a young Wisconsin boy the Packer's out lasted the cowboys The texas crew was freezing there balls off and couldn't get the job done Packer's Championship
They probably wouldn't play that game today or they'd move it. Also fwiw Dez Bryant caught that ball.
The only thing wrong with that when these same packers would Play dallas when it was warm dallas would still lose