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The Green Bay Packers season was their 49th season overall and their 47th season in the
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(NFL) and resulted in a 9–4–1 record and a victory in Super Bowl II. The team beat the
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in the
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, a game commonly known as the "Ice Bowl," which marked the second time the Packers had won an NFL-record third consecutive NFL championship, having also done so in
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under team founder
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. In the playoff era (since 1933), it remains the only time a team has won three consecutive NFL titles. The Packers were led by ninth-year head coach
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and veteran quarterback
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, in his twelfth season. Green Bay's victory in Super Bowl II over the Oakland Raiders was the fifth world championship for the Packers under Lombardi and the last game he coached for the Packers. The 1967 Packers became the first team in NFL history to win three consecutive championship games, and the second team in NFL history to three-peat as champions to the 1929-1931 Green Bay Packers. No team has won three championships in a row since.


Offseason


NFL draft

In the first round of the
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in March, the Packers selected
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and quarterback
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.
This was the first common draft with the
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, following the merger agreement of the previous June.


Expansion draft

With the expansion
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entering the league in , the Packers had to leave 11 players unprotected for the
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. One of the players that Lombardi left unprotected was a future
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, halfback
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. Lombardi was distraught when the Saints selected Hornung in the draft.When Pride Still Mattered, David Maraniss,p. 407, Simon & Schuster, 1999, In later years, Hornung revealed that he spoke to Saints coach
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prior to the draft. Fears was a former assistant in Green Bay and Fears felt that Hornung would help sell tickets in New Orleans. Several weeks later, the Saints also signed Jim Taylor, the Packers fullback. Taylor, a
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native and future
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, had felt underpaid and underappreciated under Lombardi.


Preseason


Regular season

The Packers finished the regular season 9–4–1. The NFL season saw the addition of a sixteenth team and the two conferences of eight teams each were subdivided into two divisions. The Packers played in the Western Conference and in the Central Division, with the Lions, Bears, and Vikings; each division foe was played twice, and each team in the Century Division and Coastal Division was played once (and no teams in the Capitol Division). Each of the four division winners advanced to the
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. The Packers clinched the Central division title at
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on November 26 at 8–2–1, with three games remaining, as the second-place Chicago Bears fell to 5–6. With the rotational system (in place until ), they had home field advantage for the playoffs in 1967, with the first round (conference) scheduled at Milwaukee against the Coastal division champion.


Schedule

* Note: Intra-division opponents are in bold text.


Game summaries


Week 1


Week 2 vs Bears


Week 3


Week 4


Week 5


Week 6


Week 7


Week 8


Week 9


Week 10


Week 11


Week 12


Week 13


Week 14


Standings


Postseason


Western Conference Championship

The Green Bay Packers defeated the Los Angeles Rams 28–7 on December 23, 1967, at
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, in
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. The Rams scored the first points of the game on a 29-yard pass from
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. The Packers scored the next four touchdowns, including two touchdown runs by Travis Williams. With the win the Packers advanced to the NFL Championship game.


NFL Championship (Ice Bowl)

The Packers advanced to the NFL Championship game and faced the
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in the NFL Championship Game. The game was played on December 31, 1967, at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The official game-time temperature was −13 °F / -25 °C, with a wind chill around −48 °F / -44 °C. The bitter cold overwhelmed Lambeau Field's new turf heating system, leaving the playing surface hard as a rock and nearly as smooth as ice. The officials were unable to use their whistles after the opening kickoff when a whistle stuck to a referee's lips. Early in the game, the Packers jumped to a 14–0 lead with a pair of touchdown passes from
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to wide receiver
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. Green Bay committed two costly turnovers in the second quarter that led to ten Dallas points. Neither team was able to score any points in the third quarter, but then on the first play of the final period, the Cowboys took a 17–14 lead with running back
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' 50-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver
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on a
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. Starting from his own 32-yard line with 4:54 left in the game, Starr led his team down the field to the one-yard line. Running back
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attempted two runs into the end zone, but fell short. Facing a third down with sixteen seconds left in the game, Starr executed a quarterback sneak behind center Ken Bowman and guard Jerry Kramer's block through defensive tackle
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, scoring a touchdown that gave the Packers a 21–17 win and their unprecedented third consecutive NFL championship.


Super Bowl II

After beating the Cowboys in the NFL Championship game, the Packers advanced to the
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to face the American Football League champions, the Oakland Raiders. The Packers scored early with two field goals from kicker
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. Later in the second quarter, quarterback Bart Starr threw a 62-yard touchdown pass to receiver
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to give the Packers a 13–0 lead. Oakland struck back on their next possession when quarterback
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completed a 23-yard touchdown pass to receiver Bill Miller. At the end of the half, Don Chandler added another field goal, making the score 16–7. In the second half, Starr completed a 35-yard pass to receiver Max McGee, which was the last reception of McGee's career. The pass helped set up
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's two-yard touchdown run. Early in the fourth quarter, Chandler kicked his fourth field goal, making the score 26–7. After the field goal, Starr was injured on a sack and was replaced by
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. Later in the fourth quarter, Packers defensive back
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intercepted a Raiders pass and returned it 60 yards for a touchdown, making the score 33–7. The Raiders managed to score a second touchdown on a 23-yard touchdown pass from Lamonica to Bill Miller late in the fourth quarter. The Packers went on to win the game 33–14. Coaching his last game for the Packers, Vince Lombardi was carried off the field in victory.


Season statistical leaders

* Passing yards:
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, 1823 * Passing touchdowns: Bart Starr, 9 * Rushing yards:
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, 466 * Rushing touchdowns:
Elijah Pitts Elijah Eugene Pitts (February 3, 1938 – July 10, 1998) was an American football player, a halfback in the National Football League (NFL) for 11 seasons, ten with the Green Bay Packers. Late in his career, he briefly played for the Los Angeles ...
and
Donny Anderson Garry Don "Donny" Anderson (born May 16, 1943) is a former professional football player, a halfback and punter for nine seasons with the Green Bay Packers and St. Louis Cardinals of the National Football League. From Texas Tech (then Texas Te ...
, 7 * Receiving yards:
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, 836 * Receiving touchdowns: Carroll Dale, 5 * Points:
Don Chandler Donald Gene "Babe" Chandler (September 5, 1934 – August 11, 2011) was a professional American football player. He was a punter and placekicker in the National Football League (NFL) for 12 seasons in the 1950s and 1960s. Chandler played coll ...
, 96 * Kickoff return yards: Travis Williams, 533 * Punt return yards:
Donny Anderson Garry Don "Donny" Anderson (born May 16, 1943) is a former professional football player, a halfback and punter for nine seasons with the Green Bay Packers and St. Louis Cardinals of the National Football League. From Texas Tech (then Texas Te ...
, 98 * Interceptions:
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, 8 1967 Packers on Database Football
obtained 23 December 2006.


Roster

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Coaching staff

:'' Instant Replay, The Green Bay Diary of Jerry Kramer'', Jerry Kramer and Dick Schapp, p. 7, Doubleday, New York, 1968 (reprint 2006),


References


External links


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