The Ice Bowl: The Dallas Cowboys and the Green Bay Packers Season
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.42 (901 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1556115326 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-03-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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Leonard Pinth-Garnell would love it! WNY Reviewer In the early years of "Saturday Night Live," Dan Ackroyd played a character named Leonard Pinth-Garnell, who would host a show called "Bad Ballet" or "Bad Theater" or whatever. They'd present a truly awful play or whatever, then cut to Leonard Pinth-Garnell applauding and saying "Awful! Dreadful! Simply terrible!" and roll . Ditto on previous review The previous reviewer stole much of my thunder, but I'll throw in my two cents' worth anyway."The Ice Bowl" is a magazine article stretched into book length. The actual game is covered in a couple dozen pages near the end. The rest of the book is, as the previous reviewer noted, filler. Examples: Several pages are devoted t. Daniel said The Ice Bowl and other unrelated incidents. Basically a good account of the seasons of the Packers and the Cowboys leading up to the 1967 NFL Championship Game. However the author throws in a lot of unrelated information that appears to filler material. It was if the author decided that the 1967 season and the "Ice Bowl" would not be enough material for a book. That
Now one of the most irreverent sportswriter in the business brings the final game of the '67 season to life, vividly profiling the players' distinctive personalities on and off the field. The teams' intense rivalry in the following 1967 season would culminate in one of the most classic football games of all time--the Ice Bowl. In 1966, the Green Bay Packers beat the Dallas Cowboys for the NFL championship. of photos.
The 1967 NFL championship game, played in minus-37-degree wind chill, between the Packers and the Cowboys is certainly one of them. Ice Bowl recounts these teams' dramatic march toward the inevitable showdown with stunning detail and lively analysis, culminating in a vivid replay of the championship game, where Starr scored the winning touchdown with just 13 seconds left. . It is a football moment that, 30 years later, can still take fans' condensing breath away. Some games simply live forever. It was a grudge match between the teams that had played for the title the year before, a game between two teams that hated each other, two teams as different as their field generals--flashy Dallas quarterback Don Meredith and blue- collar Packer signal-caller Bart Starr