Vince Lombardi's last title | What made the 1967

The 1967 Packers were the last of Vince Lombardi’s five (nearly six) Green Bay championship teams of the 1960s. Aging and without some legendary names of their recent past, the Packers relied on football IQ and the legendary Lombardi discipline to win Super Bowl 2 with a 9-4-1 record.

With 10 of their 22 starters age 30 or older, the Packers of 1967 knew how to win and played their best when it counted most. Opening the season slowly with a tie against Detroit, the Packers kept finding ways to win despite Hall of Fame quarterback Bart Starr sitting out Weeks 4 and 5; backup Zeke Bratkowski performed admirably to keep the Packer train rolling.

While the Ice Bowl remains the most iconic moment of the ’67 Packers’ lore, their two games against the 11-1-2 Los Angeles Rams illustrate how Lombardi’s men exerted their will to win in the clutch. In Week 13, with the Rams fighting the Colts to win the newly established Coastal division, L.A. won a thrilling come-from-behind battle at home against Green Bay, 27-24. Two weeks later, back in chilly Wisconsin, the Rams – having beaten Baltimore in Week 14 to claim their division – fell 28-7 to the dialed-in Packers.

This “design challenge” series comparies the classic statistics-based game of APBA Football (first released in 1958) and the more recent, somewhat Euro-style Breakaway Football.

Breakaway Football creator Arthur Franz IV captures the Packers’ late-game prowess with mechanisms like The Big Push. Meanwhile, Geoff Giordano of the APBA Football Club (established 2011) creates a pair of team/player characteristic cards to add the flavor of the ’67 Packers to the stats-driven game mechanics, without skewing the highly accurate APBA formula.

1967 Packers yearbook:
   • 1967 Green Bay Packers  

1967 Packers vs. Rams regular season and divisional highlights:
   • 1967 Divisional Playoff - Packers vs. Rams...  

1967 Packers playbook:
https://archive.org/details/historic-...

“Way to go, Jerry!”; Vince Lombardi reacts after Ice Bowl:
   • The best offensive block in history  

1967 Packers media guide:
https://archive.org/details/packers-1...

1968 Packers media guide:
https://archive.org/details/packers-1...

Breakaway Football:
https://uplinkunderground.com/

The 1967 “Stackers” expansion:
https://www.thegamecrafter.com/games/...

Breakaway Football at Tabletop Simulator:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfile...

Breakaway Football at Board Game Geek:
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1...

APBA Football Stadium Shop:
https://apba.stores.turbify.net/apbaf...

APBA Football at Board Game Geek:
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/5...

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