We have an extended blog entry for today, featuring some of the October 26, 1969 game program when the Atlanta Falcons visited Lambeau Field in Green Bay.
Here is head coach Phil Bengston’s staff of assistants for ’69. which included former Packer players Zeke Bratkowski, Forrest Gregg, and Dave Hanner.
There was a team photo of the 1968 Packers, who finished with a 6-7-1 record in the N.F.L. Central.
This is the first of several pages which displayed photos of your favorite Packer stars of that year.
And here’s the team roster for 1969.
We have the book “The First 50 Years” in the Packerville, U.S.A. archives, but not the LP set that is pictured with it here.
It’s pretty obvious that this Coca-Cola ad is from the year of Woodstock.
More of your Packer stars from the end of the Sixties. Note that Forrest Gregg is listed as a player and coach for the team.
The workhorse of the Ice Bowl of a couple years prior, Chuck Mercein started the 1969 season before he wound up with Vince Lombardi in Washington to end the year. It was Lombardi’s only full season of coaching in the nation’s capitol, as he was stricken with cancer and died in September 1970.
More stars of the Lombardi era hung on in Green Bay, and one wonders how many were kept because of their link to the Glory Years. As with their choice of head coaches after Dan Devine, the Packers were often guided by nostalgia rather than with forward-thinking football acumen.
Don’t forget to tune in to “The Phil Bengston Show,” because in 1969 you couldn’t record it if you weren’t home!
A mixture of more older Packer players than newer stars.
Some information about the people behind the scenes and behind the microphone.
Here’s the entire slate of Packer games and their start times for the season.
Here’s a few more newer members of the Packers’ fraternity.
Enjoy some Peter Piper Pickles when you watch the next Packer game.
Jerry Kramer’s “Instant Replay” was one of the first Packer-related books acquired by the Packerville, U.S.A. archives.
And lastly, when you’re in the market for a new snowmobile to ride the snowy trails of northern Wisconsin, be sure and make it a Mercury... because Fuzzy Thurston told you so!The Packers beat the Falcons on this day, 28-10.
