I don’t want to talk about anything other than the fact that this is just nothing short of classic. Period. The 1961 ( 19 freaking 61! ) NFL Championship game between the NY Football Giants and the Green Bay Packers. As I’m writing this I’m watching the players running out being introduced. Wow 🤦🏻‍♂️ This footage is EVERYTHING to a film junkie such as myself. To have the opportunity to watch a game from so long ago, I appreciate this so much. Thanks for uploading this.

One likes the voices of the great Lindsey Nelson and Chris Schenkel -sports broadcasting legends.

What a post! I had the great privilege of becoming friends with the great Charlie Conerly during the last dozen years of his life. This was his last game. A modest, humble, classy gentleman who was beloved in New York. Not uncommon for people to applaud for him when he entered a restaurant in the 80's and 90's. A really handsome man, part native American, he was one of the first "Marlboro Men" dressed both in a tux, and as a cowboy. He appeared as such on a huge billboard on the Lincoln tunnel helix, and on the entire back cover of Life magazine. The players were not paid a whole lot back then, so this was a great gig for him. Immediately after the science started coming out about the dangers of smoking, he refused to do any more cigarette advertisements. At a late night get together uptown in the 80's, Charlie, Sam Huff, Joe Morrison, Paul Hornung and Tim Mara chatted about this game over drinks and laughs for about an hour. Unforgettable night for me. Charlie's wife, Perian, in addition to being gorgeous, was probably the first female sportswriter in the country. She is in her 90's now, and active. What an honor for me when they came up from Clarksdale, Miss.for my NJ wedding in 1990. RIP, Charlie, 2/13/96, you are fondly remembered and sorely missed. Thanks js, for this post.

I had the honor of meeting Chris Schenkel and Byron Nelson in a hotel elevator in 1969 in Houston, Texas during the 1969 US Open. They were both great and provided autographs to a star struck 11 year old (me). I will never forget that.

WOW, $10 per seat. The parking cost more than that now! In fact, a hot dog probably does too.

Amazing that footage like this is available. Who doesn't love youtube uploads?

THE GREAT LINSEY NELSON GOD BLESS HIS MEMORY THE VOICE OF THE NEW YORK METS 1960s when I was a kid thank you for posting this great documentary

Green Bay my favorite team all my life. I was 6 years old when this game was played. What a team back then! I appreciate more now at 65. Go Packers. Respect from Canada.

Wowww...legendary Mets announcer, LINDSAY NELSON, broadcasting the 1961 NFL Championship Game just months before he would broadcast the first ever baseball game of the New York Mets...cool stuff...

The reason why this football is so great is because the money hasn’t ruined it yet.Games on Monday,Thursday,and Sunday night plus the Super Bowl in February is a joke.They always think more is better.I’m writing this on January 29th 2019 and back in the day the Super Bowl had long been decided.

What??? No commercial breaks between team exchanges? Boy does this game move nice and easy I love it

RIP Bart Starr 1-9-1934 / 5-26-2019

Fantastic upload! The modern game could learn from this type of pacing.

Notice how different the game was. They could block even though they couldn't use their hands and when they tackled, they wrapped the ball carrier up.

Where is the 9 hour pre-game show?

To see a young Chris Schenkle and Lindsey Nelson brings back a lot of memories for me.

Was a freshman at Milwaukee School of Engineering that year. We had a lot of east coast kids there, and they did a lot of trash talking as they headed home for the holidays, letting us Cheesheads know the'd rub our faces in the snow when they came back. They sure were silent when they returned! I've seen lots of great Packers games over the years, but this was exciting at the time as any of the other great ones have been. Nice that a great game from the pre-Super Bowl era is here for those who remember it, and those who have interest in sports history. Thanks for posting!

Jesus...I watched this with my dad as a little kid in Massachusetts back in 1961. Real football...they tackle...the runners don't always keep running out of bounds...receivers don't crumble to the ground so they don't get hit...no STUPID end zone dancing...no endless replays...no mindless chatter with moron announcers...lots of HOF's in this game.....Great stuff!!!

Watched the entire game. Great. I knew the Packers won but didn't know a thing about anything else. Stood out for me: The small size of Lambeau Field at the time (City Stadium) The fact that the two announcers Lindsay Nelson and Chris Schenkel, both play by play guys, each took a half. The incomplete pass on 4th down in the EZ coming out to the 20 (touchback) The fact that at least one NY Giant had no logo on his helmet. How sharp and crisp the fake handoffs and delayed handoffs had to be in those days. Beautiful. The 25 minute plus halftime. The fact that in those days, all the backs were asked to pass from time to time. All those great hall of fame names playing in this game. Not even one famous Green Bay sweep! That Boyd Dowler was quite a player...

This is a treasure. A few years ago, someone had complete games up in color for both this game and the 1962 Championship Game. I wish the NFL and the tv networks had done a better job of preserving games from back then.

Lindsey Nelson, months before his teaming with Bob Murphy and Ralph Kiner in the Mets Broadcasting booth. A very versatile sportscaster, and those colorful jackets (lol)

Really nice broadcast, the commentators were super knowledgeable about the game, and it is really cool how they draw up the play to explain the game. Neat time in history. Packers defense so dominant, Giants can't move the ball at all.

Lombardi lost the 1960 title game. He said "I will never lose another one" . And he never did.

The host of this show, Hal Kelly, was the older brother of Dan Kelly, who of course became voice of the St. Louis Blues of the NHL. This was long before Dan came to St Louis in 1968. And this was the Canadian feed, as the Kellys were from Canada. . Notice in the opening credits they mentioned Canadian horse racing and track and field? Anyhow, the great Vince Lombardi's home championship game is a treasure to watch! How this stadium didn't get named Lombardi Field instead of Lambeau Field, I'll never understand.

I just love this. REAL football. A championship game played at the stadium of the team with the best record. ALL the commercials ONE company. $10 tickets. (Sigh)

This is so facinating and interesting to see this game, 35 years before my birth.. I enjoy videos of sports, through out the years.. Thank you for uploading this vid.

Ball handling by qbs back then always impreses me.. the quik give to back while qb looks like hes dropping back is another good football play and watch the o linemen get off on the snap. Its friggin gorgeous.. its so old school i love the attention to detail.

I was a little too young to remember this game, but the roar of that Green Bay crowd was as I remembered it from a few years later, like the NFL Championship games in 1965 and 1967. It was intimidating, even watching on TV.

Let me get this straight NFL player's had to get leave from the military to play in a championship game like Hornung? WOW! No constant penalties,no replay after every other play, games over in less 2hrs this what made the NFL #1 spectator sport imo

Geez three Packers on leave from the Army to play. Times sure have changed.

Y.A. Tittle's son, Pat, was a year ahead of me at Woodside High School in the late 1960s into the early 1970s. He played defensive lineman on the varsity team; I was acquainted with him; and one time I gave him a ride to his Atherton home in my car when he missed the late bus (come to think of it, it was odd that Pat, as a HS senior, didn't have his own wheels; most did back then). A somewhat gregarious person, but humble, too, in that all the years we knew him, the topic of his father's fame was never brought up with me or anyone else I knew of at Woodside High. But then, Shirley Temple's daughter also attended the same high school at the time; so the high school had several additional students which had parents of acclaim; where those classmates were never boastful of their parents' prominence.

Thanks for posting this! Great memories of times when an entire regulation game with pregame, ads, analysis, halftime and post-game could be bradcast in roughly 3 hours or less. You also didn't need a 2nd mortgage to get tickets, lodging, travel etc, to be at a championship game. Also quite interesting to see the vintage commercials. (Wow, how did we *ever* survive without 4K UHDTV "in living color", instant replay, 3D, live streaming, etc. etc.? Heehee-just kidding)

Bart Starr is by far an above without a doubt the greatest green bay quarterback the packers have ever had

Thank you so much for posting this.

Amazing too see this old video! Thx!

This was great thanks for posting

We can thank the CBC for preserving this game. A real treasure.

This was a CBC relay of an NBC telecast. (Perhaps no kinescope or videotape of NBC's broadcast exists) (Although CBS had TV rights in 1961 to most of the NFL's teams, NBC had rights to two NFL teams---the Pittsburgh Steelers and the old Baltimore Colts)---as well as the NFL Championship Game. The next year, CBS captured the first league-wide NFL TV deal, which included all regular-season, playoff, and championship games. Note that Green Bay's football stadium was still called "City Field"; it wasn't yet re-named Lambeau Field.

I remember watching this game on our old Zenith B&W TV with rabbit ears. The local station carrying this game did not come in perfectly. Sometimes, there was a little snow in the picture, and at other times, there was ghost image where the image came in dimly to the right of the main image. My 5th and 6th grade team that year used an abridged version of the Packers' playbook with the sweep, trap, off-tackle slant, power off-tackle, the inside fold play, and many of their play-action passes.

Great game to watch! Thanks for posting this.

Amusing to see City Stadium so small compared to the current size of Lambeau Field

december 31, 1961 John F Kennedy was President of the United States...the following day President Kennedy sent Lombardi a telegram from the white house wishing the Packers congratulations on winning the NFL Championship. " Dear coach, Congratulations on winning the NFL Championship. For a fine coach. A fine team. And a fine town. Best regards, President John F Kennedy

What a gem. Thank you.

Love hearing the great names and having Schenkle and Nelson on mike

Now that's how you start a dynasty.

R.I.P. Bart Starr🏈

I was two when this game was played. But just 4 years later, because of my father & uncles and their friends watching the NFL on Sunday's at our house, I wanted to be like them. So I got into it! Love the '62 Falcon Commercial!

This brings back memories of watching (or trying to watch) football on TV in the '60s. Between the vertical hold messing up and causing the picture to start"flipping", and the picture fuzzing out so you needed to mess with the fine tuner or the rabbit ears (needs more aluminum foil), sometimes I'd eventually give up and just pull the footstool up, sit in front of the TV, and stop trying to go back to my chair. You had to remember to warm up the TV at least a few minutes before the game started too, or you'd miss the kickoff. Sometimes I'd just give up, turn it off, and go outside.

Thank goodness for these old games as I cannot watch football of recent years

single commercials, players break from the huddle and hustle up to the line...no show boating I miss the way it was

I was 14 on this New Year's Eve 1961 attending Bella Vista high School.... It certainly was cold in Green Bay on this New Year's Eve that's Lombardi probably had a party at his place after the game 6 years later I bet he really enjoyed that win the ice bowl win on another New Year's Eve Packers play well on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day

As young child I remember spending Sundays watching Lindsey Nelson review the Saturday's Notre Dame football game.

Thanks for posting this game indeed. Anyone have a tape of the CBS footage of the 1962 championship game at Yankee Stadium? That was blacked out in New York and even the usual Yankee Stadium game source, WTIC-TV (Channel 3) in Hartford, CT. I had to listen to the game on the radio while my father saw the game at a bar. (I was 9, so they wouldn't let me in.) New York games from this era are especially tough to find.

The 1961 National Football League Championship Game was the 29th title game. It was played at "New" City Stadium, later known as Lambeau Field, in Green Bay, Wisconsin on December 31, with an attendance of 39,029

Ron Kramer had a great first half to touchdowns and a couple multi-yard catches for first downs thank you Ron rest in peace God bless you

1000th comment. It's nice to see a part of history on VHS in great quality! 😀

Packer front four: DE Willie Davis, DT Dave "Hawg" Hanner, DT Henry Jordan, and DE Bill Quinlan. The LB crew were: Dan Currie, Ray Nitschke, Bill Forester, and Tom Bettis. DB's were: Jesse Whittenton, Hank Gremminger, Willie Wood, and Lew Carpenter. GB offensive line were like a machine: Bob Skorinksi, Norm Masters, Jim RIngo, Forrest Gregg, and Jerry Kramer.

Bart Starr, Paul Hornung, Y.A. Title, Rosie Grier, some of the stars of my childhood. I was an L.A. kid so it was Elroy "Crazy Legs" Hirsch, and Roman Gabriel, not to mention the Fearsome Foursome.

Remember lindsey nelson calling a play at a Bears game. Went like this... Sayers....long pause....Touchdown !!! Just two words. Loved that man.

Great video. Thanks. Miss this type of Football..Baton, marching bands, The power run game..Today it's like Pass pass pass.flag football. Btw.that baton woman quite an athlete

A time when players had a little humility. No goofy end zone celebrations.

Pat Summerall - @1:43:15, an insignificant role as the Giant's placekicker in this game. He gets in on a play or two. Will go on to be one of the most visible and significant faces and voices of the NFL during their growth and eventual dominance as the most widely watched sport in the US for decades.

I believe the Giants had the two oldest QBs in the league at that time on their roster. The 2nd oldest Y.A. Tittle was 35 years old here and Charlie Conerly was 40 years old. Awesome to see all these greats in action. Not a fan of either team but I’m going through every NFL season and watching all championship/ conference championship/ Super Bowls that are available to watch. I’m wrapping up the 1961 season after watching this and the recap of the 1961 AFL Championship game.

The game was televised on NBC and blacked out locally. CBS and NBC both carried games in 1960 & 1961. CBS eventually signed an exclusive agreement with the NFL in 1962. Lindsey Nelson was assistant director of sports but left early in 1962 to take the New York Mets job when they were formed. The director of the sports department was Tom S. Gallery, with whom Lindsey credits with his success in professional broadcasting.

this game was NINE DAYS before I was born!!!!!!!!!!! and I was born in Milwaukee, WI

Somehow I knew that baton twirler was not going to go through her whole routine bundled up like she was without dropping it somewhere. In 1961 I was just a wee lad in Wisconsin, just aware of a team called the Green Bay Packers.

I love watching these old games. One thing that astounds me is how no one got hurt on every play, what with those single bar face masks....sheesh!

Vince Lombardi... and a host of Hall of Famers. thank you we need to see this again to remember afresh those greats who laid down the cobbles on which the recent travel.

I remember watching this game. I was 20 years old. The Pack had lost to the Eagles in the Championship game the year before. They mauled the Giants in this game. The next year the Pack beat the Giants again but it was a lot closer. Great football to watch. Bart Starr was a gutsy guy and Hornung and Taylor were beasts who would run your ass over. Looks like they only used 5 officials back then compared to 7 now and they make more mistakes now. Go figure.

When NFL football was REAL football.

This is outstanding.

What, no 2 week build up of game, 12 hour pregame, political correct halftime show? Just the game? What a great idea!!

Amazing how times have changed the athletes had class and the crown weren't a bunch of animals I can bet you they didn't riot after the game....

That was aired on CBC in Canada presented by Carling, Ford & Cameo.

Halftime trivia - Fred "Curly" Morrison was a football executive after his playing career with the Bears and Browns in the 50s. He died in 2020 from complications of a broken hip. He was 94.

1961 and 1967 Championship Games in Green Bay both on December 31

Good citizens then. Today we have the NFL. National Felons League

I’m so glad that this was the football I grew up watching. No fans dressed up in jerseys or cheese heads. Quarterbacks calling their own plays. No show boating by the players. Quiet referees. Kickers kicking straight on and playing real football positions. They let the fans on the field after the game and they were allowed to tear the goal posts down....I miss that. (A lot better tradition than pouring Gatorade over a coaches’ head!) AND no instant replay reviews!

Love the commercials. You can actually understand what they ate selling.

Amazing to see Chris and Lindsey this young. Back when play by play announcers knew how to call a game. The iconic commercials were great back then! No tickets costing 7K like now and no prima donna qb's.

I found the baton twirler far more entertaining then Beyoncé.

Back when the NFL was still real football and fun!!

This was great to watch!

As a former Ford Falcon owner, the commercial at 1:38:40 is a treat. Love the old school.

I was six years old. This is my first memory of the Packers. Life Long Fan

I heard Roosevelt Grier his name mentioned I remember him with the Los Angeles Rams he was also present June 4th or was it June 8th at The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles with Bobby Kennedy 1968

Thank You For This Great Game-Tom T. 27019

1 million dollar championship game, And those players earned every dime. 🇺🇸

Somehow I can't envision watching a game today and hearing a player like "and there's Tom Brady on leave from the Army."

The Giants needed A LOT more than Grandpa Conerly replacing Tittle IMO. Green Bay was just way too much better than New York that day.

Since there was no replay back then, you only had once chance to watch a great catch, tackle or TD.

$10/ticket, JFK still around, and the pre-game entertainment is a middle aged beauty twirling a baton. When the world was young!

Ah, the days before instant replay

No 300 pound plus linemen, 250 pounds was heavy back in the day

You'd never know there was the NFL before the Superbowl. Thanks to the NFL

Thank you. I was born this year.

What no dancing for five minutes after making one tackle

"Covered with a tarp and some hay". Wow.

I started watxhing the Packers in '66. There is a lot of similarity between the methodology of Lombardi's teams to the Patriots if this Century that I don't think people appreciate.

Wait, the 1962 Ford Falcon got 35 mpg? That's better than my car :) Awesome footage, btw! Except that Cameo ad got annoying fast haha