American Football · 1967 · Green Bay, USA
The Ice Bowl
Playing in a wind chill of roughly minus 40, the Green Bay Packers win the NFL Championship on a quarterback sneak with sixteen seconds left, in what is still the coldest game in league history.
Packers 21-17 Cowboys
Result
~-40°F
Wind chill
16 seconds
Time remaining at winning score
The 1967 NFL Championship between the Green Bay Packers and Dallas Cowboys was played at Lambeau Field on 31 December in a recorded temperature of 13 degrees below zero Fahrenheit, with a wind chill estimated between minus 36 and minus 48, so cold that the field's new underground heating system reportedly failed and the surface froze solid, giving the game its lasting nickname.
Dallas led 17-14 late in the fourth quarter when Green Bay, out of timeouts and starting from its own 32-yard line, drove downfield behind fullback Chuck Mercein's runs and catches. From the one-yard line with 16 seconds remaining, quarterback Bart Starr, worried his running backs would slip on the ice, called his own number and followed guard Jerry Kramer's block into the end zone for the winning score.
The 21-17 win gave coach Vince Lombardi his third straight NFL title in what proved to be his final game on the Packers' sideline, before Green Bay went on to win Super Bowl II. The frozen conditions, the goal-line sneak, and Lombardi's exit combined to make the Ice Bowl one of the defining games of the NFL's pre-Super Bowl-dynasty era.
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