The Packers appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated for the twelfth time in October of 1968, the year of decline after the Lombardi era. Depicted on the cover are defensive tackle Bob Brown (#78) and offensive tackle Forrest Gregg (#75) running out onto the field prior to the game with the Los Angeles Rams in Milwaukee on October 13, 1968. The Packers would lose this game 16-14 and drop to 2-3 on the season at that point, leading to the article inside in which the magazine stated that “the Packers are not dead.”
But they were “dead” as far as their string of championships were concerned. They would go on to win only four more games in that 1968 season.
Bob Brown played for Green Bay from 1966-1973, while future Hall of Famer Forrest Gregg would play two more seasons, retiring in 1970.
