Thursday, September 20, 2007

Two Days Before the 1961 NFL Championship


Here’s another in our series about the City Stadium efforts to ready the facility for the 1961 NFL championship game. According to the original photo caption:

“Jack Orde paints the words ‘Green Bay’ in the south end zone at City Stadium on Dec. 29, 1961, two days before the NFL championship game between the Packers and New York Giants.

Source: Green Bay Press-Gazette archives