NFL Championship Game, 1967
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| Date | December 31, 1967 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Stadium | Lambeau Field, Green Bay, WI | ||||||||||||||||||
| Favorite | Green Bay by 6⅓ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Referee | Norm Schachter | ||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 50,861 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Network | CBS | ||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers | Ray Scott and Jack Buck (play by play), Frank Gifford (color commentator), Pat Summerall and Tom Brookshier (sideline reporters) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Radio in the United States | |||||||||||||||||||
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CBS (national) KLIF (Dallas) WTMJ (Milwaukee) |
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| Announcers |
Jack Drees, Jim Morse (CBS) Bill Mercer, Blackie Sherrod (KLIF) Ted Moore, Chuck Johnson (WTMJ) |
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The 1967 National Football League Championship Game was the 35th NFL championship, played on December 31 at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
It determined the NFL's champion, which met the AFL's champion in Super Bowl II, then formally referred to as the second AFL-NFL World Championship Game. The Dallas Cowboys (9-5), champions of the Eastern Conference, traveled north to meet the Western champion Green Bay Packers (9–4–1), the two-time defending league champions. It was a rematch of the previous year's title game, and pitted two future Hall of Fame head coaches against each other, Tom Landry for the Cowboys and Vince Lombardi for the Packers.
Because of the adverse conditions in which the game was played, the rivalry between the two teams, and the game's dramatic climax, it has been immortalized as the Ice Bowl and is considered one of the greatest games in NFL history.
The NFL added a 16th team in 1967 and realigned to four divisions, with each winner advancing to the postseason. Future hall of fame head coach Tom Landry of Dallas led his team to first place in the Capitol Division with a 9–5 record. The Green Bay Packers, and future hall of fame head coach Vince Lombardi, won the Central Division with a 9–4–1 record.
In the first round of the four-team playoffs, the Cowboys met the Century Division champions, the Cleveland Browns (9–5) for the Eastern Conference title. In the Western Conference, the Packers hosted the Los Angeles Rams (11–1–2), the Coastal Division champions (with the league's best record). The Baltimore Colts of the Coastal Division were also 11–1–2, but lost the tiebreaker to the Rams and were excluded from the postseason.
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