i remember watching many of these games, this will never happen again, there is no way an NFL championship team would ever play a college all-star team in today's world.
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?
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
One starting QB punting, the other starting QB holding on place kicks, workhorse running back punting, starters - lots of starters, playing special teams. Coaches wore suits, and not sweat suits. A high school marching band was the half time entertainment. It was a different game in 1967.
Went to this game with my Dad, brother and uncle--uncle was from Ohio and knew Coach Johnny Sauers, got free tickets...watched the All Stars Practice at Northwestern Univ Practice Field. Even took an 8mm film of some of it. Great memories. Thanks for posting.
Can you imagine having all your star players from a professional World championship team playing in an exhibition game today? The NFL players union would flip their lids.
I'm amazed a video of this game still exists! I can remember in 1963 the Packers actually lost this game. Lombardi was pissed. He swore that would never happen again. In '67 the Packers would go on to win their third straight championship (still the only team to do so), and their 5th in seven years. This was the year of the Ice Bowl win over Dallas. If you were a Packer fan then, you can still remember where you were when watching that special game. Lombardi retired after the season was over.
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And then he coached the "Commanders" in 1969, LOL.
Awesome footage. That all star team had a ton of talent. So many of them became household names on Sundays. I truly appreciate your channel. Thank you.
6:52 Packer TE misses a blitz and a hot route. Starr hit a ton of these to Marv Fleming. '66 was Starr's finest season. In '67 he was hurt but did play well in the playoffs and SB. This is the only 3 championships in a row in NFL history. Thank you for posting!
This type if Game would not be played today, Till I discovered this Vid, I never knew that Top college prospects played against a championship caliber NFL Squad of that Time. Amazing. Vince Lombardi, STILL( I Thnk) the GOAT of ALL Head Football Coaches!
This is great classic footage, I remember the College All Star game right up until the final one against Pittsburgh was called due to weather, Its probably good that it isn't played anymore because the NFL would have ruined this just like they did the Pro Bowl.
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.
Wow, it didn't take an NFL scout to see the difference between Spurrier and Griese. And Spurrier won the Heisman and was drafted one spot before Griese? The Dolphins thank you 49ers.
Never mind about today's game. This game ended after the 1976 version, so the pro teams realized there was nothing to be gained by this. A nice, but old-fashioned idea before teams became much more concerned about player safety
Just an update to my previous post. I actually did buy the book "I'd Rather be Wright: Memoirs of an Itinerant Tackle 1974"). In the book this is the exact passage Reserve Green Bay OFF Tackle Wright made about these College All Star games: "After the 2nd Super Bowl win in 1968 we had to play the College All-Stars, in Chicago. "it was a pain in the azz. These kids would play their guts out and you'd just toy with' em because you could really mess 'em up if you wanted to. You'd play just well enough to win. Late in the afternoon, before the 1966 game, a friend of mine called me at the hotel and said come on over to Trader Vic's and have a drink. I had about three Navy Grogs and when I got on the field I was feeling no pain. I wasn't drunk, I was just feeling good. Ken Bowman (Packer Center) and I and about three other guys were standing around during the pre-game practice and Ken looks at me and says, "Somebody's been drinking. Can you smell it." I breathed right in his face and said, "NOOOO." He just looked at me and shook his head." THIS book is a fun interesting read. Wright named names. He loved Lombardi, all the Packer Players on those Championship teams especially Bart Starr, Forest Gregg & Ken Bowman. Liked Dick Butkus, Fred Dryer, Joe Namath and other player's. Coaches and player's he disliked were Bear Bryant, Wellington Mara, Tucker Frederickson, Fran Tarkenton, George Allen, George Halas (tightwad) and many other's...
This was the Packers' first "preseason" game in 1967, which must have been played in 70+ degree weather in August. Of course, the Packers' next to last game in 1967 was the famous "Ice Bowl"
I can see why Notre Dave's defense was so dominating in 1966. All-American Pete Duranko and NFL HOFs Jim Lynch and Alan Page together the same defense.
@@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.
It's staggering the number of future HoF'ers on that field. For the college all-stars, Alan Page, Bubba Smith, Floyd Little, and Bob Greise. For Green Bay Willie Davis, Dave Robinson, Ray Nitschke, Henry Jordan, Willie Wood, Herb Adderley, Bart Starr, Jerry Kramer, Forrest Gregg, and Vince Lombardi. Paul Hornung retired after the '66 season and Jim Taylor played for the New Orleans Saints in 1967. Remarkably no recievers from the Vince Lombardi era were selected for the hof. Still 9 players and their head coach on this team have been inducted. With 12 going in that played for Vince Lombardi, more than half of the offense and defense starting positions.
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.
The last one that I saw of this series was the Steelers against the college all stars. Pittsburgh was easily ahead at halftime. They called the game at halftime because of lightning and terrible rain. I think it may have been the last one played. Of course this was in the 70s
The college allstars were picked by locale, big ten area. Steve Spurrier was the only player from the south and that because he was the Heisman trophy winner.
I would watch these as far as I can remember I think the Steelers were in the last one and game was stopped because of lightning if I’m correct great times
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.
Damn that all star team had some greats. Floyd Little, Mel Farr, Alan Page, Bubba Smith, Bob Griese Now we have a Pro league that can’t tackle or even grab the Offense. Football in the pros is dead
Watching Bubba vs. Kramer & then Gillingham. Bubba is cat quick. At 6'7", sometimes he's a little too upright vs. the run (not employing enough leverage). He's young- sometimes he jumps to pursue before the play has developed, & is in the opposing backfield. It was more difficult to pick out Page. Gene Upshaw kicked off f/ the 2nd half
This particular game use to be more entertaining than the Super Bowl. Especially from a connoisseurs perspective. The veterans couldn't deal with the youngsters.
Only name from the SEC - Steve Spurrier. The remaining players named: one from USC and the other players from Notre Dame, Michigan, Michigan State, Purdue and Northwestern. Some of it may have location but how much has the game changed, in College Football and where the great players are coming from.
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
The Gold dust twins! Grabowski and Anderson! Lombardi drafted Grabowski to replace Taylor. Tough call THAT. But he was good for awhile. Saw the openings, pounded hard... then...injuries. Donny very fluid. Was healthier, luckier. The great Lombard's toughest championship. Age was getting to the nucleus... Had Lombardi lived he would have dominated the 70's in Wash...not to be. A shame. I wasn't born but studied the heck out of the great Lombardi. Packers home field should be called: The Field of Lombardi...period. No offense Curly.
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.
I remember watching these games. I remember one where the all=stars actually won. All the college players mentioned in the intro were from Notre Dame, Michigan, Michigan State and Northwestern, except for Spurrier from Florida. Sorry, not much of a representation of college football. Still I used to like watching this game.
I remember reading a Sports Book written by Obscure Green Bay OFF Tackle Steve Wright back in the early 80's titled "I'd Rather be Wright: Memoirs of an Itinerant Tackle 1974). Wright is the model used for The NFL Walter Peyton Man Of The Year Trophy wearing the warmup cape. He played on The Packer's 1964-1967 and was never a starter but a reserve... In the Book Wright discussed these College All Star VS NFL Championship games. Wright said these games were amusing because the NFL Team could have really messed these College All Star Player's up. I remember him stating before the game he had been drinking and was inebriated. One of the Packer's Starting Off Lineman in the tunnel before the game said "You smell that? Someone's been drinking." Wright walked up to him and said "Whooo?" in his face. The player just shook his head. LOL... If you find a copy it's actually a good read "a fly-on-the wall look at the pro football world of the late 1960s and early 1970s." Wright discusses playing with some now legendary NFL Player's and some of his comments were not positive about a few of them. In fact after posting this I think I will buy a used copy online and reread it after all these years...
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."
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.
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.
I quit watching it in the 3rd quarter. That college head coach was worthless! 4th & inches, in a meaningless game with nothing to lose, and he punts! 3rd & 18 and he calls a run play! 🙄
The college all stars won against the NFL 9 times in 41 years of playing the game. And Vince Lombardi's touted Packers lost in 1963. Lombardi said it was his most embarrassing loss.
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i remember watching many of these games, this will never happen again, there is no way an NFL championship team would ever play a college all-star team in today's world.
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.
Alan Page and Bubba Smith on the same defense. I'd salivate of that for an NFL team in the early 70s.
......and George Webster for Mich St. went to the Oilers and Jim Lynch who went to the Chiefs
One starting QB punting, the other starting QB holding on place kicks, workhorse running back punting, starters - lots of starters, playing special teams. Coaches wore suits, and not sweat suits. A high school marching band was the half time entertainment. It was a different game in 1967.
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.
Went to this game with my Dad, brother and uncle--uncle was from Ohio and knew Coach Johnny Sauers, got free tickets...watched the All Stars Practice at Northwestern Univ Practice Field. Even took an 8mm film of some of it. Great memories. Thanks for posting.
When was this game played? Before/after the super bowl?
My father was at this game and brought me a program that I still have.
That’s cool
Can you imagine having all your star players from a professional World championship team playing in an exhibition game today?
The NFL players union would flip their lids.
Do you blame them with all the millions made today?
Alan Page was one of the best defenders to ever play in the NFL. And also a retired Minnesota State Supreme Court Justice.
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.
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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.
I'm amazed a video of this game still exists! I can remember in 1963 the Packers actually lost this game. Lombardi was pissed. He swore that would never happen again. In '67 the Packers would go on to win their third straight championship (still the only team to do so), and their 5th in seven years. This was the year of the Ice Bowl win over Dallas. If you were a Packer fan then, you can still remember where you were when watching that special game. Lombardi retired after the season was over.
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.
I forgot about these games. They were big attractions that you looked forward to watching.
The class of 66 had some beasts, a bunch of future hall of famers.
Michigan State and Notre Dame were loaded. #1 and #2 in the polls that year.
Did you see the way Alan Page after revcovering the ball after the blocked kick, ran 20 yards down field and danced? Me either
“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
Awesome footage. That all star team had a ton of talent. So many of them became household names on Sundays. I truly appreciate your channel. Thank you.
6:52 Packer TE misses a blitz and a hot route. Starr hit a ton of these to Marv Fleming. '66 was Starr's finest season. In '67 he was hurt but did play well in the playoffs and SB. This is the only 3 championships in a row in NFL history.
Thank you for posting!
Those were the days, the blocking and hitting were absolutely brutal!
This type if Game would not be played today, Till I discovered this Vid, I never knew that Top college prospects played against a championship caliber NFL Squad of that Time. Amazing. Vince Lombardi, STILL( I Thnk) the GOAT of ALL Head Football Coaches!
That was a fun game. I wish they kept it going.
The college All-Stars were basically a rookie pro team thrown together for the first time.
Thank you for posting this !
This is great classic footage, I remember the College All Star game right up until the final one against Pittsburgh was called due to weather, Its probably good that it isn't played anymore because the NFL would have ruined this just like they did the Pro Bowl.
Would be a great way to evaluate talent before draft day.
Warren Harding HS. It was a large High School. We scrimmaged them late 60's.
Alan Page was a Central Catholic Canton grad ...then went to Notre Dame.
The college All-Star team really had many many players on it that went into the pros
Some good all-stars in there, future NFL stars. They were going full-tilt in this game. Bart Starr, meet Bubba Smith.
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.
Wow, it didn't take an NFL scout to see the difference between Spurrier and Griese.
And Spurrier won the Heisman and was drafted one spot before Griese?
The Dolphins thank you 49ers.
Never mind about today's game. This game ended after the 1976 version, so the pro teams realized there was nothing to be gained by this. A nice, but old-fashioned idea before teams became much more concerned about player safety
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 actually saw this game as a child. It used to happen all the time ..
Was there with my dad.I was 8 years old.Ahmad Rashad was Bobby Moore
Just an update to my previous post. I actually did buy the book "I'd Rather be Wright: Memoirs of an Itinerant Tackle 1974"). In the book this is the exact passage Reserve Green Bay OFF Tackle Wright made about these College All Star games: "After the 2nd Super Bowl win in 1968 we had to play the College All-Stars, in Chicago. "it was a pain in the azz. These kids would play their guts out and you'd just toy with' em because you could really mess 'em up if you wanted to. You'd play just well enough to win. Late in the afternoon, before the 1966 game, a friend of mine called me at the hotel and said come on over to Trader Vic's and have a drink. I had about three Navy Grogs and when I got on the field I was feeling no pain. I wasn't drunk, I was just feeling good. Ken Bowman (Packer Center) and I and about three other guys were standing around during the pre-game practice and Ken looks at me and says, "Somebody's been drinking. Can you smell it." I breathed right in his face and said, "NOOOO." He just looked at me and shook his head." THIS book is a fun interesting read. Wright named names. He loved Lombardi, all the Packer Players on those Championship teams especially Bart Starr, Forest Gregg & Ken Bowman. Liked Dick Butkus, Fred Dryer, Joe Namath and other player's. Coaches and player's he disliked were Bear Bryant, Wellington Mara, Tucker Frederickson, Fran Tarkenton, George Allen, George Halas (tightwad) and many other's...
This was the Packers' first "preseason" game in 1967, which must have been played in 70+ degree weather in August. Of course, the Packers' next to last game in 1967 was the famous "Ice Bowl"
Amazing how hard everyone played in an exhibition game, every game back then taken seriously, today the pro bowl game is flag football, what a joke
I was born in 1958. I thought I had maybe imagined the College All-stars playing the NFL Champs! I recognize more college players.
I can see why Notre Dave's defense was so dominating in 1966. All-American Pete Duranko and NFL HOFs Jim Lynch and Alan Page together the same defense.
Bubba Smith and George Webster for Michigan St.
I remember back they had what I think was called the "Losers Bowl" were the losers of the playoffs would play each other for third place
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.
I watch them with my Dad😊
It's staggering the number of future HoF'ers on that field. For the college all-stars, Alan Page, Bubba Smith, Floyd Little, and Bob Greise.
For Green Bay Willie Davis, Dave Robinson, Ray Nitschke, Henry Jordan, Willie Wood, Herb Adderley, Bart Starr, Jerry Kramer, Forrest Gregg, and Vince Lombardi. Paul Hornung retired after the '66 season and Jim Taylor played for the New Orleans Saints in 1967. Remarkably no recievers from the Vince Lombardi era were selected for the hof. Still 9 players and their head coach on this team have been inducted. With 12 going in that played for Vince Lombardi, more than half of the offense and defense starting positions.
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.
The All-Stars have some NFL Hall of Famers playing for them.
Amazing All Stars!!!
Very smart and intelligent college players. No way would they have
tangled with that ferocious defense of the Packers!
The all-stars were technically pro rookies. They'd been through the '67 draft before this game.
The last one that I saw of this series was the Steelers against the college all stars. Pittsburgh was easily ahead at halftime. They called the game at halftime because of lightning and terrible rain. I think it may have been the last one played. Of course this was in the 70s
Respect! Nothing but Respect!!!!!
The college allstars were picked by locale, big ten area. Steve Spurrier was the only player from the south and that because he was the Heisman trophy winner.
I remember John Matuzak dominating the game not sure what year
1973 v. Dolphins. Was featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated.
Is that Jack Brickhouse announcing?
That was my thought. It does sound like him. Hey Hey!!
Yes. By voice recognition and by checking out :30 et seq.
I would watch these as far as I can remember I think the Steelers were in the last one and game was stopped because of lightning if I’m correct great times
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.
Damn that all star team had some greats. Floyd Little, Mel Farr, Alan Page, Bubba Smith, Bob Griese Now we have a Pro league that can’t tackle or even grab the Offense. Football in the pros is dead
Watching Bubba vs. Kramer & then Gillingham. Bubba is cat quick. At 6'7", sometimes he's a little too upright vs. the run (not employing enough leverage). He's young- sometimes he jumps to pursue before the play has developed, & is in the opposing backfield. It was more difficult to pick out Page. Gene Upshaw kicked off f/ the 2nd half
This is insane that this really used to happen.
What's insane is you think this was insane😂
“They don’t make insane like they used to”-Boomers/GenX
That collegiate team was loaded with talent (but too young and inexperienced to give The Pack a game).
I'd say the All-Stars definitely had the better running backs, with Floyd Little and Mel Farr.
Grabowski had some scoot in him.
When was this game played? Before/after the super bowl?
Funny to watch the qbs dropback like that.
This was 2 weeks after the riots of July 1967!
Rick Volk from Michigan State? That would be a no.
This particular game use to be more entertaining than the Super Bowl. Especially from a connoisseurs perspective. The veterans couldn't deal with the youngsters.
Only name from the SEC - Steve Spurrier. The remaining players named: one from USC and the other players from Notre Dame, Michigan, Michigan State, Purdue and Northwestern. Some of it may have location but how much has the game changed, in College Football and where the great players are coming from.
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
Regardless of the era
The Gold dust twins! Grabowski and Anderson! Lombardi drafted Grabowski to replace Taylor. Tough call THAT. But he was good for awhile. Saw the openings, pounded hard... then...injuries. Donny very fluid. Was healthier, luckier. The great Lombard's toughest championship. Age was getting to the nucleus... Had Lombardi lived he would have dominated the 70's in Wash...not to be. A shame. I wasn't born but studied the heck out of the great Lombardi. Packers home field should be called: The Field of Lombardi...period. No offense Curly.
About half the all stars were from notre dame and michigan state
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.
Was this played after the Superbowl?
I remember watching these games. I remember one where the all=stars actually won. All the college players mentioned in the intro were from Notre Dame, Michigan, Michigan State and Northwestern, except for Spurrier from Florida. Sorry, not much of a representation of college football. Still I used to like watching this game.
You played for pride
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🤷🏽♂️
Mel Farr. Superstar. For A Farr better deal.
The jingle Farr used for his car dealerships.
So it was the Big 10 vs the Packers. Didn’t see a Southwest or Southeast guy in there. Hmmm
One SEC player? Joke.
The 1963 Packers lost the all-star game that year.
All these college all stars look 30-35
I remember reading a Sports Book written by Obscure Green Bay OFF Tackle Steve Wright back in the early 80's titled "I'd Rather be Wright: Memoirs of an Itinerant Tackle 1974). Wright is the model used for The NFL Walter Peyton Man Of The Year Trophy wearing the warmup cape. He played on The Packer's 1964-1967 and was never a starter but a reserve... In the Book Wright discussed these College All Star VS NFL Championship games. Wright said these games were amusing because the NFL Team could have really messed these College All Star Player's up. I remember him stating before the game he had been drinking and was inebriated. One of the Packer's Starting Off Lineman in the tunnel before the game said "You smell that? Someone's been drinking." Wright walked up to him and said "Whooo?" in his face. The player just shook his head. LOL... If you find a copy it's actually a good read "a fly-on-the wall look at the pro football world of the late 1960s and early 1970s." Wright discusses playing with some now legendary NFL Player's and some of his comments were not positive about a few of them. In fact after posting this I think I will buy a used copy online and reread it after all these years...
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."
One all star got hurt did they get better and draft based on this film I saw
They've already been drafted. This was the first Pre-season game for the pros played at the beginning of August.
Where's Jim Taylor?
He left the Packers to play for the Saints that season.
Men vs. Boys
Bad idea at the time.
Who thought this was a good idea?
The colleges and players!😑
They weren’t very bright back then🤷🏽♂️
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They stopped having these games when the ALL STARS beat the so called pros
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
Stupid game I mean the the super bowl winners they just want to go home
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.
I quit watching it in the 3rd quarter. That college head coach was worthless! 4th & inches, in a meaningless game with nothing to lose, and he punts! 3rd & 18 and he calls a run play! 🙄
This was some bad football
The college all stars won against the NFL 9 times in 41 years of playing the game. And Vince Lombardi's touted Packers lost in 1963. Lombardi said it was his most embarrassing loss.