Why, oh why would we be featuring a photo of the Minnesota Vikings’ original stadium — Metropolitan Stadium — on our all-Packers blog? Well, for two purposes. One, we love the old-time stadiums and the era they represent, and two, this is an aerial photo of the 1962 meeting between the Vikings and Packers. This is the October 14, 1962 contest between the teams, and the Packers won handily 48-21 in front of 41,475 fans in 75-degree temperatures. Two other things to note are that the baseball season is now over and the Twins were not involved in post-season play, so the baseball infield has been sodded over for the rest of the football season. The same thing was done in Milwaukee County Stadium for Packer games once the Brewers’ season was over.
Also, this game is being played on the same day that American U-2 spy planes took photos of the build up of Soviet missiles on the island of Cuba. The “Cuban Missile Crisis” that brought the world to the brink of nuclear war began with those photos taken on this day.
