New Year’s Eve marks the 50th anniversary of one of the most remarkable American football matches in history. A game that almost certainly should not have been played on New Year’s Eve 1967, it remains as renowned for the hideously bitter conditions in which it was contested as its thrilling denouement.
The Green Bay Packers, managed by the legendary Vince Lombardi, were aiming to make history by becoming the first team in the history of the play-off era to win three consecutive NFL titles. Similarly venerated Dallas Cowboys coach Tom Landry and his men had the difficult job of stopping them. Up for grabs: the NFL Championship and a place against the AFL champions in the second Super Bowl. Still in its infancy and nothing resembling the spectacle that stops a nation it has since become, that particular decider would prove little more than a footnote to what has gone down in football folklore as the “Ice Bowl”.
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