Word: packer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CHARLES WALLACE PACKER Winnetka...
...Packers gave away age (two years per man), and at many positions they gave away vital speed. Their edge was experience. Their old pros overpowered the Raiders' youth and enthusiasm. Coolly and methodically, Green Bay ground the challengers down, capitalizing on Oakland's mistakes while making practically none of its own. Not once did Green Bay draw an offside or illegal motion penalty-while Oakland, baffled by the staggered cadence counts of Packer Quarterback Bart Starr, twice jumped the center snap. The Packers never fumbled; the Raiders did three times. The only interception came when Green...
Even so, the game hinged less on what Oakland did wrong than on what Green Bay did surpassingly right. "Execution," according to Oakland Coach Johnny Rauch, was the key to the Packer victory. Quarterback Starr read the stunting Raider defenses as if he had written the book, completed 13 out of 24 passes behind impregnable blocking that virtually nullified Oakland's vaunted pass rush. Packer Tackle Bob Skoronski, assigned to hold off Oakland's mammoth (6 ft. 8 in., 280 lbs.) Defensive End Ben Davidson, did his job so well that Davidson only once all game...
...impossible to come up with any accurate comparison of the two teams personnel. In the case of the Packers, publicity and familiarity have spawned a mistaken aura of superiority. In the anonymous world of the offensive line. Forrest Gregg Jerry Kramer, and Bob Skoronski stand out over Oakland's Harry Schuh and Bob Svihus largely because of the tremendous exposure they have received in their decade in the pros, most of it with a championship team. But that doesn't mean a rising star can't be as bright as a falling one, or that the youngsters haven't been...
...best example of the Packer mystique that blurs objective analysis just as the Yankee pinstripes used to do is fullback Chuck Mercein. Since he started for Green Bay in its playoffs, no one has mentioned that he is the worst fullback in either the NFL or the AFL. The glory days of Taylor and Hornung have blinded people to the fact that Anderson plus Mercein is not a running attack...