Today’s photo is from a solemn preseason game which was played two days after the death of former Green Bay head coach Vince Lombardi. On Saturday evening, September 5, 1970, the Cincinnati Bengals met the Packers at Milwaukee’s County Stadium to play the fifth of six preseason contests that season (NFL preseasons were not shortened to four games until 1978). In the foreground of the image is, of course, longtime Packers’ linebacker legend Ray Nitschke. On this evening, the Bengals and Packers played to a 10-10 tie in front of 47,411 fans.
