Green Bay Packers: Number 67 worn by many no-names

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Green Bay Packers players who have worn #67 are not household names … in fact, if you can name one beyond Don Barclay, the player currently assigned the number, I would be very surprised.

We’re not sure why that is, but it’s not been a number worn well over the past 50 years.

Today, as a part of our continuing numbers countdown, we stop briefly to talk about #67.

Barclay has worn the number second longest in Packers history, second only to Karl Swanke, a 6-6 offensive tackle who played for the Packers during the Bart Starr-coaching era in the early 1980s.

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Swanke was drafted out of the sixth round by the Green Bay Packers in 1980. His seven years in Green Bay were during some of the darkest days in the team’s history, though he was part of an offense that was as good as they got in those years.

Fast forward to 2017 and we see that Don Barclay has worn the number for four years in Green Bay. A career backup, the Packers have kept Barclay around town because of his versatility. While he’s played all the positions along the offensive line, there are many who say that he’s never played any of them very well.

Are there better players to have worn the number?

Well, take a look below at the players who are listed and you tell me.

There are the likes of Billy Ard, Sebastian Barrie, Leo Carroll, and Dick Logan.

If you know those players and remember them wearing #67 for the Packers, you’re a better man than me.

That said, we’ll leave it at that and move on to one of the most famous of all players to have worn #66 in our next post.

I think you know to whom I refer.

Be on the lookout for that post upcoming soon.

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Packers players to wear #67 the past 50 years

Our countdown, from the beginning:

• Number 99
• Number 98
• Number 97
• Number 96
• Number 95
• Number 94
• Number 93
• Number 92
• Number 91
• Number 90
• Number 89
• Number 88
• Number 87
• Number 86
• Number 85
• Number 84
• Number 83
• Number 82
• Number 81
• Number 80
• Number 79
• Number 78
• Number 77
• Number 76
• Number 75
• Number 74
• Number 73
• Number 72
• Number 71
• Number 70
• Number 69
• Number 68