We’ve got another more extensive blog entry today, with Sports Illustrated’s coverage of the Packers’ 1962 N.F.L. championship game with the New York Giants. At that time, Kennedy was in the White House, we’d survived a nose-to-nose face off with the Russians over missiles in Cuba, and your Packerville editor was born. But all that pales in comparison to the fact that Green Bay won their second — and second consecutive — title under the leadership of head coach Vince Lombardi. Enjoy the contemporary coverage of this great event in the Packers’ history.
Lastly, while the Packers-Giants’ game coverage was inside, on the cover was S.I.’s “Sportsman of the Year” — Oregon State University’s quarterback Terry Baker. He is most notable for winning the 1962 Heisman Trophy and playing in the Final Four in the same year. To date, he is the only person to have both won a Heisman Trophy and played in the Final Four.After graduation, Baker entered the 1963 N.F.L. Draft and was the first overall pick, by the Los Angeles Rams. Baker played with the Rams for three seasons, and later played for the Edmonton Eskimos of the Canadian Football League while earning a degree at the University of Southern California Law School. He is considered the first of many Heisman trophy busts in the N.F.L., mainly due to his style of play not fitting into the Rams' offensive scheme. This could also be attributed to the fact that the head coach of the L.A. Rams often had Baker lining up as a running back. It is also widely accepted that Baker was ahead of his time as a dual threat quarterback
