''Instant Replay: The Green Bay Diary of Jerry Kramer'' is a book written by

Green Bay Packers The Green Bay Packers are a professional American football team based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The Packers compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the National Football Conference (NFC) NFC North, North division. It ...

offensive lineman

Jerry Kramer Gerald Louis Kramer (born January 23, 1936) is a former professional American football player, author and sports commentator, best remembered for his 11-year National Football League (NFL) career with the Green Bay Packers as an offensive linema ...

and sportswriter Dick Schaap. Published in 1968, the book covers the

1967 Green Bay Packers season The Green Bay Packers season was their 49th season overall and their 47th season in the National Football League (NFL) and resulted in a 9–4–1 record and a victory in Super Bowl II. The team beat the Dallas Cowboys in the NFL Championship G ...

, which ended with the team winning

Super Bowl II The second AFL-NFL World Championship Game (known retroactively as Super Bowl II) was an American football game played on January 14, 1968, at the Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida. The National Football League (NFL)'s defending champion Green Bay P ...

against the

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. It was also notable because the Packers earned the right to represent the National Football League (NFL) in the Super Bowl (before the NFL's merger with the

American Football League The American Football League (AFL) was a major professional American football league that operated for ten seasons from 1960 until 1970, when it merged with the older National Football League (NFL), and became the American Football Conference. ...

) by winning the

1967 NFL Championship Game The 1967 NFL 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 se ...

, more commonly known as the "Ice Bowl", with Kramer making a key block during the winning touchdown. Kramer authored the book by reciting his thoughts into a tape recorder, with Schaap then editing the words into the final written version. In Schapp's obituary in 2001, '' The New York Times'' called ''Instant Replay'' one of the "best-selling books of its era." In 2002, '' Sports Illustrated'' named ''Instant Replay'' the 20th greatest sports book of all time. '' The Washington Posts Jonathan Yardley called the book "the best inside account of pro football, indeed probably the best book ever written about that sport and that league."

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* 1968 non-fiction books American football books History of the Green Bay Packers World Publishing Company books {{sport-book-stub