"You could hear the dadgum sleet hitting the ice, said Doug Meacham, then an OSU offensive lineman and now its tight-ends coach. Yes, the gametime temperature was a balmy minus-9 degrees, but the wind-chill factor was a ridiculous minus-59 degrees that day. Doctors warned him to avoid extreme heat or extreme cold. It was so cold that the winning quarterback, Kenny Anderson, suffered frostbite of the right ear, and the losing quarterback, Dan Fouts, left the field with icicles dangling from his beard. The Browns toughed it out for a quarter, then retreated to a hotel. John Biever, who took the iconic Ice Bowl photo of Starr plunging into the end zone for the winning touchdown and went on to a distinguished career at Sports Illustrated, was astonished to learn that aerial photos existed of the game. Ice Bowl tales are replete with examples of just how cold it was during the game. After kickoff at 1 PM CST, temperatures ranged from -12°F to -14°F with wind chills between −33°F and −37°F, making it the coldest game in the history of the football league. By halftime, it was 23 degrees with a minus-four wind chill. A year prior, the Packers and Cowboys had played in the same game, won by Green Bay, 34–27. The temperature at kickoff was 27 degrees, with a wind chill of 10. 1985 was the year of Barry's heart attack that caused him to miss some games. This was a Sooner wishbone team, remember, with a Californian at quarterback. The Sooners won 13-0 and went on to win their sixth national championship. Linemen resembled horses trying to claw a bare spot for traction. © 2004-2020 CBS Interactive. Bonnie wanted no part of such an adventure, and who could blame her? You probably wanted to be at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Meacham still summons a visual memory of fellow blocker Paul Blair digging with his feet to clear a space for a stance. The Cowboys played Florida State in the Gator; the Sooners played Penn State for the national championship in the Orange. Said Sonny Brown, then an OU safety, "Absolutely miserable. Landry, not alone, believed that football games shoul… That is the coldest-ever temperature recorded at the start of an NFL game. This time, according to media reports and the Pro Football Hall of Fame, the field was like a “sheet of ice.” Though conditions made running difficult, Packers quarterback Bart Starr dove for the winning touchdown. He was the navigator in an observation plane that flew over Japan after the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Bonnie said, and later worked as a railroad switchman. As you can tell by those faces who seemed to be saying, "If they can't control the weather better than this, I'm NOT going to vote for Lyndon B. Johnson again," it was pretty chilly that day. by Mary Kornely, Denmark Elementary School, Denmark, Wisconsin. A few big plays determined the game. Nonetheless, more than 50,000 parka-clad fans braved the elements that New Year’s Eve and watched in awe as the Packers claimed their third consecutive NFL title, with a 21-17 victory. "The Ice Bowl" - NFL Championship, Green Bay Packers vs. Dallas Cowboys Temperature: -13 degrees / Wind chill: - 48 degrees ), Said Bengals fullback Pete Johnson about an hour after the game, via the Cincinnati Enquirer: “I’m just now finding parts of me hurt that I didn’t know I hurt. Lilly testifies that when the Cowboys came out for their pre-game … Switzer wearing new leather boots to the game and ruining them in the wetness, which he doesn't claim to recall. “They’re historic.”. The league had talked about the possibility of postponing the AFC title game, but it reportedly was never under serious consideration. “Who else would be crazy enough to fly that day?”. Bonnie had never seen the photos. As ESPN.com recounts, he told his men before the game that the contest would be as painful as going to the dentist but that the hurt wouldn't last for long. Holieway: "You told me if I came to Oklahoma, I'd never have to play in weather like that. Jackson, who the week before against Nebraska had unveiled the tight-end around, one of the most lethal plays in Sooner history, tried it again against OSU. A year prior, the Packers and Cowboys had played in the same game, won by Green Bay, 34–27. Instead, the league recommended to the teams that they change their clothes at halftime and use dry, hot towels to cover their faces during the game. Brown, the field-goal holder, did the same to warm his hands. Brown's parents were not among them; they drove up from Alice, Texas, way down by Corpus Christi. Only about 20,000 fans remained from the estimated 35,000 who braved kickoff. He wanted to see what the NFL Championship Game looked like from the air. Soon enough, both teams were headed to Florida for bowl games. It was so cold that a fleet of heated city buses were kept outside Riverfront Stadium with a supply of blankets borrowed from local hospitals. Several local records still stand from that wintry day, according to the Green Bay NWS Forecast Office: Surface weather chart for December 31, 1967, showing midnight CST temperatures. “It’s history. The Packers won the game 21-17. Switzer still cackles at the story, 20 years later. NewsOK has disabled the comments for this article. “You didn’t think twice about the cold,” Judy said. “The weather the day before the Ice Bowl was relatively tranquil with a high of 20°F,” writes the Green Bay NWS Office in a 50th anniversary commemoration of the extraordinary event. Spencer Tillman scored the game's only touchdown, on a three-yard run with 1:09 left in the first half. Played at Lambeau Field on December 31, the temperature at game time registered a frigid 13 degrees below zero. They all combined for one of the most memorable games in NFL history. Fifth all-time lowest maximum temperature for any December 31 in Green Bay: 6°F above zero reached early that morning just after midnight. He was hospitalized that week with fever and a virus. He didn't know it would be so bad that night; walking from the pressbox to his car after the game, "I thought I was going to die, Barry said. By the time I got my body turned around, their guys had recovered. Bonnie said her father made only a couple passes over the stadium before turning back toward Kaukauna because the cockpit windows started to fog up. It was like a steering wheel, trying to get your body turned around. Dante Jones tackled Thomas three yards shy on a 4th-and-5 quick pitch from OU 22-yard line in the fourth quarter, OSU's deepest penetration. Freezing rain stung the players' faces. “It was eerie to see it from up high. The 6°F circled for Green Bay was the highest temperature of the day. I’m going to mail them to Bonnie.’ I sent her the slides. Richard Jerow was a skilled pilot who served in the Marine Air Corps during World War II. By the time OU came out to, uh, warm up, the temperature had dipped, the rain was sleet and Lewis Field had iced over. Footing became treacherous. A 31-yard pass from Holieway to halfback Damon Stell set up Lashar's first field goal. What they show very clearly is history, from 10,000 feet. The April 25–28, 2011 Tornado Super Outbreak caused roughly $11 billion in damages and claimed the lives of an estimated 321 people. Less than 100 years ago, scientists and sailors used ordinary wooden buckets to measure sea surface temperatures. Although December 31, 1967, does not set the Wisconsin state record for lowest minimum temperature, recorded twice in 1996 at −55°F, the conditions for the game caused frostbite and other injuries among players and fans, including one weather-related death among the more than 50,000 spectators braving conditions. As NFL.com helpfully points out, the 1967 Ice Bowl started at minus-13 degrees with a wind chill of minus-48. But that Freezer Bowl game has never left the conscious of the fans who watched or the players that performed in it. “They don’t have to be.”. Lowest minimum temperature for any December 31 in Green Bay: −19°F reached just before midnight. At gametime, the temperature was 5 degrees with a minus-15 degree wind chill, and when the sun went down -- as it's wont to do -- it got even colder (as it's wont to do when the sun goes down). Cowboy kicker Brad Dennis tried a 37-yard field goal, fell on his butt as he tried to plant and duck hooked the kick. “They were gone maybe an hour,” Bonnie said. OU fumbled six times and lost none. Keith Jackson knows the feeling. Then, as the Bengals coach, he was on the sidelines for the Freezer Bowl. I can still see her red nose. It all could have come undone, though, against a salty OSU team. "We had to kick all that ice to get a little footing, Jackson said. "You can play in pouring rain, said Keith Jackson, an All-American tight end at OU. Oh, you want a picture of fans who attended the Ice Bowl? "There was nobody there. “He was a rugged guy and a good pilot,” she said. The temperature at Austin Straubel Airport in Green Bay was 17 below zero. That is the coldest-ever temperature recorded at the start of an NFL game. He actually played in the Ice Bowl. Thurman Thomas carried around right end on the game's first play, and "everybody was slipping and falling, Brown said. He took the ball, headed for the sideline and spied nothing but open space. Water rolled down the Lewis Field ramps when the Oklahoma Sooners arrived for a Bedlam football game on Nov. 30, 1985. Several spectators suffered heart attacks, according to Colonel Larry Whelan of the Cincinnati police. And the Bengals offensive linemen didn't wear sleeves that day, choosing instead to rub Vaseline on their arms to numb the pain. The Ice Bowl, as it came to be known after the 1967 NFL Championship game on a frigid New Year’s Eve, outdid the hype of most professional football league contests by going down in history among the greatest games played in extreme weather. Lowest minimum temperature for any December 31 in Green Bay: −19°F reached just before midnight. Both offenses turned sloppy, yet both were resilient. 6-keys: media/spln/nfl/reg/free/stories, at "I was not going to tell them what to wear. Introduction . “Why would you think about it if you had a chance like that? But when you can't stand up, that's gotta be the worst conditions. But it wasn't quite as chilly as the 1982 Freezer Bowl, depicting the Bengals vs. the Chargers on a rather frigid January day in Cincinnati. section: | slug: remember-when-32-years-ago-bengals-triumph-in-freezer-bowl | sport: football | route: article_single.us | ", (For the record, San Francisco quarterack Colin Kaepernick didn't wear long-sleeves last weekend, so that was something. The Bengals accepted the latter but declined the former. Where were you on December 31, 1967? And some OU ingenuity found a path to field goal success. A female fan whose clothes froze to the bleachers. On This Day, September 16, 2004, Hurricane Ivan made its first US landfall over Gulf Shores, Alabama, as a Category 3 hurricane. Regularly, the police fanned out through the crowd of 46,302 - there were 13,277 no-shows - to see if anyone needed assistance. 1967 NFL Championship Game between the Green Bay Packers and Dallas Cowboys. Switzer being Switzer, he cackled that night, yelling "frostbite as he came off the field.
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