That’s cool

Absolutely. This was in the era when NFL teams played their other preseason games much more to win than today, and would play many of their starters deep into games. Can you imagine the uproar if they still played these games and Patrick Mahomes or Travis Kelce got injured?

@@jamesmelcher9355I was about to say the very same thing. I remember games like this because I was born in 1954. Never see this again.

Look at all that available parking!

Hey, I was thinking the same thing. They're playing this game during training camp. Before the start of the season, that's crazy to me. And the starters are playing the whole game

Yep these were real games. The easy parking back then must of been nice vs the current 20-30 minute walk if you’re lucky.

......and George Webster for Mich St. went to the Oilers and Jim Lynch who went to the Chiefs

It Was A Different WORLD.....

Thank god

I was born only two months prior to this game. But, I remember others like it. Isn't that Steve Spurrier in there?

@@Anglovox yup. He was a QB sensation in college. Lazy though. Couldn’t read defenses and played back up for years.

No celebrating at the end of each play. No long hair.

Michigan State and Notre Dame were loaded. #1 and #2 in the polls that year.

A really bad Justice. Elected not for his legal mind, but for his Vikings fame.

@@tomthx5804 That's your opinion. Not mine. He also played for the Bears. Just a little bit more information for you. FJB.

​@@tomthx5804 Does it make you feel good to shit on someone's success 🫤🫤

I didn’t know he went on to be a judge

@@tomthx5804So he sent you to prison for molesting that horse, apparently.

And then he coached the "Commanders" in 1969, LOL.

The ice bowl wasn’t televised on local channels in GreenBay 😔 I was playing cards with my buddies in 8th grade listening to the game on the radio 😔

Red skins

They played the All-Stars the year before, and won 38-0.

Do you blame them with all the millions made today?

“They don’t make boring football players like they used to”-Boomers

@@RamsLakersDodgers Watching a player celebrating after making a routine tackle is really boring. Lombardi would bench a player like that.

@@ThePackfan69”They don’t make players making routine tackles & not celebrating anymore”-Boomers/GenX

I'm sure the players back then and especially prior to that embraced this game largely because it was an extra paycheck.

Safety maybe , losing to the college players for sure

Jack Brickhouse!

My dad and bro were at that game. Evidently, a monsoon came in and the game was called in the 3rd qtr.

Stupid game. After Super bowl I want time off

I read the book Instant Replay by Jerry Kramer. He talked about having to block Bubba Smith. Kramer always had his hands full. Blocking Jethro Pugh, Merlin Olson, Alex Karras. He must have had plenty of nightmares during the football season of the sixties.

According to Jerry Kramer in INSTANT REPLAY A book I bought in 1968, When Bubba Smith got that big sack early in the game on Starr, Smith told Starr "All night, all night old man, Big Bubba' gonna be on right here on top of you." Starr told Kramer what Smith said. Kramer was livid and on the next few plays he worked Big Bubba over. and forced him to "tap out". That was over 50 yrs ago but I always remembered that. Today I finally got to see it, Sure enough Kramer schooled Bubba good. Yes, I was one of those who was asking for years "Why isnt Jerry Kramer in the HOF. Was very happy when he finally got inducted. Unfortunately I can't say the same for another deserving player ROMAN GABRIEL.

@@retrohollywoodmotionpictures I was watching this specifically to see that sack by Bubba, that Jerry mentioned in his book.

It was called the Playoff Bowl. Or, as Vince Lombardi described it, "A game for losers played by losers."

I remember those games. Think they discontinued in the mid 60's.

@@chrisbotelho7212 The last one was played in 1976. If I remember correctly, the game was called due to horrific weather conditions in the second half. Rain was coming down so hard that parts of Soldier Field were under more than a foot of water.

Last playoff bowl was in 1969, played in Miami ​@camoss3724

@@charlesandonie1391 You're right. I was thinking of the College All-Star Game.

Alan Page was a Central Catholic Canton grad ...then went to Notre Dame.

George Webster ( Michigan State) was the best Defensive player in the Big Ten in the 60's except for Butkus. Had he not injured his knee, he would have been an NFL Hall of Famer. He was AFL Rookie of the year and 3-time All-pro. He hurt his knee in 4th season and he was never the same.

Bubba Smith and George Webster for Michigan St.

The all-stars were technically pro rookies. They'd been through the '67 draft before this game.

That was my thought. It does sound like him. Hey Hey!!

Yes. By voice recognition and by checking out :30 et seq.

1973 v. Dolphins. Was featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated.

That’s right, they stopped the game with a little bit of time left on the clock, and there was so much rain on the field fans were using it as a slip and slide.

I think that this was the game where Starr told Steve Wright that he would kick him in the ass if he let his man get through an allow Starr to be sacked.

@@markfocacci5174 I mentioned above I bought the book and am reading it (got it for $10). The passage you mention was actually against the Steelers: Wright almost let Starr get sacked and Starr said "Steve Wright, you should be ashamed of yourself, letting a player like Lloyd Voss do that to you. If he does that again, I am going to kick you in the butt." "That was about the strongest language Bart ever used."

What's insane is you think this was insane😂

“They don’t make insane like they used to”-Boomers/GenX

And a paycheck. Just like they do today. A much BIGGER paycheck.

@@bostoncityofchampions6581Yes.Don’t be so naive to think they didn’t play for the money too🤷🏽‍♂️

One SEC player? Joke.

That's because they were the two best teams of the 1966 season. It would be equivalent to stocking a College All-Star team a few years ago with lots of player from powerhouse teams Alabama and Georgia. During the 1966 season, both ND and Michigan State were unbeaten and untied coming into the late-season game and they played to a famous 10-10 tie in East Lansing. The following week ND ended their season with a 51-0 crushing of the USC Trojans out in LA, while Michigan State had concluded their season the previous week tying ND. Because Michigan State enjoyed the advantage of playing the game on its home field and managed "only" a tie against an injured ND team they were favored to beat anyway and whose starting QB Terry Hanratty suffered a separated shoulder early in the game and had to play most of the game with a DIABETIC back-up QB (who, by the end of the game, was physically struggling and barely able to function late in the game due to his low blood sugar), and also because ND so thoroughly dominated another good team out in LA the final week of the season, ND won the National Championship while MSU finished #2. The Spartans are STILL butt-hurt over that because they claim ND supposedly "ran out the clock" at the end of the game and "settled for the tie," nonetheless won the 1966 National Championship and "robbed" MSU of the title !!!. But what the Spartans refuse to admit is that THEY were the team that actually had FIRST "played for the tie" late in the game by PUNTING the ball away to ND deep in its territory rather than going for it on 4th down from already good field position. They're mad because ND wasn't stupid enough to risk a careless interception DEEP in its own territory by its physically faltering DIABETIC back-up QB so that Michigan State could kick a chip shot FG and outright win the game as time expired !!! The difference is that Ara Parseghian WAS trying to gain a first down to keep advancing -- only he did it on the ground until ND got further upfield away from the shadow of its own goalpost.

The jingle Farr used for his car dealerships.

That's not the case even now. The difference is ESECPN! Just look at the Chiefs who are considered the new dynasty. Now tell me how many great SEC players are on that team? It was even a year in the 60s where Alabama was undefeated and I believe they awarded Michigan State National Champions. ESECPN would never allow that today. Looking back at Alabama didn't have a Heisman trophy winner until the SEC got the contract with ESPN. When you do the research it's all about ESPN promoting their Number one cash cow!

​@halfmanhalfamazing2152 No Heisman winners but there were these two guys named Namath and Stabler from Bama in the 60's Its true, the SEC didn't become a true power conference until much later. Here's a fun fact. No Big Ten player won the Heisman from the late 50's with Cassidy until Archie Griffin won it twice in a row starting in 74

@@snapmalloy5556 My point exactly. Most people didn't realize that they didn't win the Heisman. I'm a Raiders fan so of course I love "The Snake"!

This was before the sec schools were integrated

@michaelmerck7576 I didn't realize that! You are exactly right. Kentucky was the first in 65 but most didn't start until 1969 and later. Amazing

They've already been drafted. This was the first Pre-season game for the pros played at the beginning of August.

He left the Packers to play for the Saints that season.

The colleges and players!😑

They weren’t very bright back then🤷🏽‍♂️

Ya no! Out of the 42 All-Star games played the college boys beat the nfl team nine times. While there was always a chance, the college AS usually got beat the way they lost here and this college team had four future pro-football HoF'ers on it.

@@plantfeeder6677 HOW did the pros look , getting beat by college kids all under 23

@@plantfeeder6677 THEY were the best college players that year . i would bet the College all stars could win today

Wow! Do they play the Super Bowl in July? Because this game was played in beginning of August!! It was the first PRE-season game of the year. Amazing comments here by people who think they're the smartest gen in history.