First of all, we apologize to our readers for two missed days this week — one because of general busyness, and last night the start of high school football took over the evening. While we try to blog each and every day here in beautiful downtown Packerville, U.S.A., occasionally time gets away from us.
Today we have some images found in Sports Illustrated’s galleries that are Green Bay-related. Above, new Washington Redskins coach Vince Lombardi poses with his quarterback Sonny Jurgenson.
Packers’ running back Jim Taylor fights for yardage against the 49ers on the cover of Sports Illustrated, September 10, 1962..jpg)
The Packer Sweep forms with Elijah Pitts (#22) carrying the ball behind Forrest Gregg (#75) and Fuzzy Thurston (#63).
Linebacker Ray Nitschke (#66) yells instructions to his defensive teammates while awaiting the snap against the Bears in Chicago’s Wrigley Field.
Illustrated had a gallery that featured the best players of all time by jersey number, and we’re pretty sure they could’ve shown Reggie White in a Packers uniform to represent #92. C’mon guys. Did he win a championship while in Philadelphia?
The great Don Hutson makes a fingertip catch in old City Stadium in Green Bay in the 1940’s.
Back in Washington, Vince Lombardi diagrams some football fundamentals on the blackboard for his quarterbacks. They no doubt we’re thinking of the dynasty that he would build around them in the nation’s capitol, but it was not meant to be. Lombardi would die of cancer just a little over a year away in September 1970.
Lastly, in a gallery of undrafted N.F.L. players who went on to be enshrined in the Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio, we found the Packers’ Willie Wood (#24). Wood wrote to teams after college asking for a tryout, and Green Bay gave him one. The rest is history.
