The late Max McGee torched the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl I for 138 yards and two touchdowns. Photo courtesy of Sports Illustrated

head coach of the juggernaut that was the Green Bay Packers of the 1960.

His team not only won the first two Super Bowls, but they won three straight championships before Lombardi retired (for one year) from the coaching ranks.

What many people don’t know is the backstory of that first Super Bowl win over the Kansas City Chiefs.

The late Max McGee gave all night owls a good name when he spent the night before that first game out carousing and drinking, thinking he would be riding the bench that day.

As his luck and eventual good fortune would have it, starting receiver Boyd Dowler went down in the first quarter with an injury that knocked him out for the remainder of the game. In came McGee, who later admitted he could barely stand, let alone play in a football game.

That didn’t matter. He burned the Chiefs for seven catches, 138 yards and two touchdowns – one of them the famous one-hander that still makes all the Super Bowl highlight reels. The Packers went on to a 35-10 shellacking of the Chiefs.

In this famous photograph of Jerry Kramer and Coach Vince Lombardi following the Packers' Super Bowl II win, Lombardi was telling him, "Boys, take me to the locker room. Kramer is not a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

OK folks, it’s been 44 years since The Ice Bowl. Today is the anniversary of that tremendous day.

We all remember the right guard who threw “the” block in that game to give Bart Starr the path into the end zone to win one of the epic games of the past 50 years in the NFL.

His name is Jerry Kramer.

The question is, why isn’t this man in the Pro Football Hall of Fame? He does have a place in the Packers Hall of Fame, but not Canton.

There is a website being run by his daughter, Alicia - http://www.jerrykramer4hof.com, you can go there and sign a petition urging the Hall to consider his induction …

Check it out …

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Can you name this Green Bay Packers running back from 1973? There are all kinds of great photos at this site. Check it out. Green Bay Press Gazette photograph

If you like a bit of history on the Sunday before today’s Packers vs. Chiefs game starts, take a look here. The Green Bay Press Gazette posts all kinds of photos and these come from past games between the Green  Bay Packers and Kansas City Chiefs.

The first is from Super Bowl I, the second from a game between the two teams  in 1973.

Here are the pictures from Super Bowl I

Here are the pictures from 1973

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