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PACKERS-COWBOYS: What Ice Bowl????
By Kevin Fischer
Thursday, Nov 29 2007, 05:00 AM
Ice Bowl is a distant memory in Dallas
By Tony Walter
Green Bay Press Gazette
twalter@greenbaypressgazette.com
GRAPEVINE, Texas – The five-member valet parking team at the Gaylord Texan Hotel here heard the question at the same time. What was the Ice Bowl?
“Wasn’t it the Super Bowl?” valet Jeremy said. “I think it was 1977.”
“It was the quarterback sneak game,” said valet Lucas. “It was a conspiracy.”
With the specter of Ice Bowl II hanging over Thursday night’s National Football Conference game between the Packers and Cowboys, Ice Bowl I (Dec. 31, 1967) doesn’t appear to be on the radar screen for most who await the verdict at Texas Stadium.
“Sure, I remember it,” said community college publicist Ray Campbell, 60. “The problem is, everybody’s dead. I mean, it’s mentioned but nobody today really knows what the heck you’re talking about.”
Campbell said he listened to the game on the radio rather than watch it on television.
“The weather here was like it is today (mid-60s) so I was out running around with a really cute girl,” he said.
Don Turner, the 52-year-old owner of the Sea Dogs and Patio on Dallas’ trendy West End, was 12 when he watched the Packers beat the Cowboys on Bart Starr’s quarterback sneak in minus-15 degree weather.
“I remember being amazed seeing people out there playing football in that kind of weather,” Turner said. “It comes up every now and then with some of our customers, but not much.”
Jim Hollomon, a lifelong Dallas resident, was 13 when he watched the game. But it’s ancient history to him now.
“The only time I hear about it is when it’s mentioned on TV,” said Hollomon.
The Cowboys’ public relations staff was asked if anyone in the team’s organization today worked for the Cowboys the day the frozen tundra was memorialized.
No one.
