As we saw in yesterday’s posting, the field surface of the then “City Stadium” was covered with hay overnight before the 1961 NFL title game, to keep the turf from freezing. Today’s image shows the hay being removed on Sunday morning, December 31, 1961. According to the official photo caption from the Wisconsin Historical Society: “A Farmall 460 tractor with windbreaker and no. 46 baler is removing twenty tons of hay from Green Bay’s City Stadium (now Lambeau Field) at 9:00 a.m. on the day of the National Football League (NFL) championship game between the Green Bay Packers and the New York Giants. The hay, which formed a one-foot padding on top of the field tarpaulin, had been on the field to protect it. The Packers went on to defeat the Giants 37-0. This image was printed in International Harvester World magazine (Feb. 1962).”
