If the Packers had won 55-0, Lombardi would still have made practices miserable using the excuse that they had played against lousy college competition. No matter what the score or outcome, Lombardi would have found a reason to run them into the ground in practice.

I remember watching many of these games, these days, as you know, it would be out of the question for the NFL champs to play a team of college all-stars.

So Griffing’s last NFL game was the Championship Game against the Bears in Wrigley. At least that was pretty cool.

Vanderkelen I'd heard of relative to the Rose Bowl but Griffing was a name that was new to me. I'm guessing Terry Baker, that year's Heisman winner, chose not to play in this game. Frankly, I wonder why anyone would want to participate given the real danger of becoming injured. I don't know, were these just graduated college players forced to play in this game or was the money they were paid pretty good for the era?

​@@trevorhembrough1290 Yes, I know. I saw that game (on TV) and was crushed that the Giants lost. Y.A. Tittle was rendered totally ineffective by two vicious hits to his left knee (the first in Q1, then another in Q2) by Larry Morris of the Bears. Griffing replaced Tittle and was just as ineffective in that game as he had been in the regular season. The Giants scored zero points after Tittle left the game.

Of course not. Lombardi is dead.

Junius Buchanan was more known by his nickname.. BUCK.. And the kickoff guy with a receiver or tight end’s number for PENN STATE.. had a pretty decent career with GREEN BAY as a linebacker.. Oh yeah, DAVE ROBINSON was darnmned good.. HALL OF FAME GOOD..

Receiver HUGH CAMPBELL of the ALL STARS would go on to win FIVE consecutive GREY CUPS as a head coach for the CANADIAN LEAGUE’s EDMONTON ESKIMOS(now ELKS), with one of his qbacks a guy named…WARREN MOON.. CAMPBELL also had a short lived career as an NFL HEAD COACH WITH HOUSTON’s OILERS with MOON once again, as the qback. MOON is in the PRO FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME while CAMPBELL is in the CFL HALL OF FAME..CAMPBELL’s ESKS went 9-1 in the GREY CUP game, and he also won one as a player. His son is the current field boss of the B.C.LIONS(Vancouver, BC, CANADA.. He essentially brought MOON to the NFL by encouraging him to leave the CFL, just before CAMPBELL applied for the OILERS HEAD COACHING spot.. HUGH CAMPBELL played at WASHINGTON STATE before he made the COLLEGE ALL-STAR TEAM. CAMPBELL, a native CALIFORNIAN, also by one season missed coaching NFL HALL QB’er STEVE YOUNG IN THE USFL of the 1980’s.. with the LA EXPRESS.

Today, with a record like theirs and an actual playoff system, Green Bay would undoubtedly be a playoff team. And had there been playoffs, and GB & the Bears ended up playing for a third time, my money woulda been on the Pack to win that final game. Beating Vince Lombardi 3 times in one season strikes me as as likely as walking to the moon.

That's true. When Green Bay returned to the All-Star game in 1966, Lombardi drove them hard, reminding them of the 1963 game. The Packers won that one 38-0.

@@FrankB1001 Well, Coach Lombardi had a good right to be upset about losing to a bunch of college kids. His Packers were World Champions, the best team in the NFL. They had absolutely no business losing a game to college kids, even though Green Bay probably viewed the event as one of many meaningless exhibition games in a long season. Still, to the college kids, it was the most important game of their young lives.

And Lombardi reminded them again in 1967, when for the second year in a row they won by shutout, 27-0.

Yes, Hornung was suspended for gambling on GB to win, just as, that same year, the Lions' Alex Karras was suspended for the same reason, betting on his team to win.