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Originally Posted by Jackrabbit379
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Originally Posted by yoopr
C'mon up Jackrabbit-It's gonna be pretty chilly for the game but It's not going to be as bad as the Original Ice Bowl.
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:P I figured you'd get a kick out of that.
Yeah, when I wrote that the other day, I was talking to my dad before I wrote it.
We talked about the game, and he mentioned the Ice Bowl. Of course, that was before my time, but he remembers it well. He said that he figures it might be cold up there this weekend, but it wont be nothing compared to the Ice Bowl.
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Here's a story about Bob Lilly that maybe you and your Dad might like. I was in nice warm weather in Vietnam during the Ice Bowl
Gonna be way below zero for our High Temps for Sunday's game but in GB it's supposed to be a bit above zero-I think we'll be ok as long as it's not windy
Forty years after that bitterly cold day in Green Bay, Wis., former Dallas Cowboys defensive tackle Bob Lilly still gets asked about the storied "Ice Bowl" wherever he goes.
"Everybody I meet who wants to talk about it says he was there that day," Lilly said Thursday, chuckling. "It's amazing how people continue to relive it, and how you see replays of the game so often."
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To this day, Lilly's fingers and hands ache when the weather turns cold. And like his former teammates, the memories of the Cowboys' heart-wrenching 21-17 loss to the Green Bay Packers in the 1967 NFL Championship still haunt him.
Lilly, now 68 and living in Georgetown, got frostbite in the little finger and ring finger of his left hand.
For good reason, the Packers' victory over the Cowboys on Dec. 31, 1967, is remembered as much for the frigid weather in which it was played as its dramatic ending.
The temperature at kickoff was 13 degrees below zero, and the wind-chill factor by the end of the game made it feel like minus-48.