# Cowboys-Packers 1967 "Ice Bowl"=Most brutal weather affected major sporting event ever? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [January 30, 2015, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cowboys-packers-1967-ice-bowl-most-brutal-weather-affected-major-sporting-event-ever/711316 "2015-01-30T08:23:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![OffByOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/45deac/32.png) [@OffByOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OffByOne)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2015, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cowboys-packers-1967-ice-bowl-most-brutal-weather-affected-major-sporting-event-ever/711316/21 "2015-02-10T16:02:42Z")
I recall a football game, probably an exhibition game, since it was played in the Astrodome, about '76 or '77. It was raining very heavily outside, and, somehow, the runoff was leaking into the dome. The game was called in the third quarter on account of rain! Certainly, the Ice Bowl and others outweigh this, but I had to share this bizarre outcome. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2015, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cowboys-packers-1967-ice-bowl-most-brutal-weather-affected-major-sporting-event-ever/711316/22 "2015-02-10T16:13:20Z")
A more recent super cold game was the 2007 NFC Championship game. -1 at game time and -23 wind chill. And it went into overtime. ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2015, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cowboys-packers-1967-ice-bowl-most-brutal-weather-affected-major-sporting-event-ever/711316/23 "2015-02-11T04:36:28Z")
> [@Skammer](#): > > Not a playoff game, or extremely cold, but probably the **muddiest** football game ever was played . Another contender: 1963 NSW Rugby League Premiership Grand Final at the SCG between St George and Western Suburbs, won by St George 8-3 The picture of the two captains at the end of the game (Saints prop Norm Provan and Wests halfback Arthur Summons ) is a rugby league icon known as [“The Gladiators”](https://www.google.com.au/search?q=the+gladiators+nrl&biw=1680&bih=881&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=SNTaVPfwCaLUmgXSz4DYAg&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAg#imgdii=_&imgrc=RxDUUOF5616YZM%253A%3BSFUKBFDm7SL-lM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww-static2.spulsecdn.net%252Fpics%252F00%252F02%252F60%252F12%252F2601236_2_O.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.foxsportspulse.com%252Fassoc_page.cgi%253Fc%253D1-2373-0-0-0%2526sID%253D19818%2526news_task%253DDETAIL%2526articleID%253D24953126%3B595%3B800) ---
**Author:** ![BigAppleBucky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigapplebucky/32/178_2.png) [@BigAppleBucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigAppleBucky)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2015, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cowboys-packers-1967-ice-bowl-most-brutal-weather-affected-major-sporting-event-ever/711316/24 "2015-02-11T21:03:44Z")
> [@russian\_heel](#): > > [1967 NFL Championship Game - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_NFL_Championship_Game) > > -15 F, with wind chills around -50 > > The fields heating system broke down, creating an ice skating rink. > > That said, it managed to be a classic game with Green Bay winning the NFL title 24-17 and Dallas actually brokenhearted they didn’t win the game, even under such conditions. > . Final score was 21-17, Green Bay I grew up and lived 90 miles from Green Bay and couldn’t watch the game due to the then existing NFL rules banning TV broadcasts from stations within (100?? miles) of a game. People I knew who went to the game all brought sleeping bags. I wonder if those would even be allowed into a NFL stadium today. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ngwK7XjghBU/hqdefault.jpg "The Story of the Ice Bowl") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngwK7XjghBU) Announcer (I’m pretty sure) was Ted Moore. The next season, for the pre-season intra-squad game, that 21-17 score was still up on the scoreboard. No idea who this announcer was, probably for Dallas. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juK50d8ZT8I) Final drive: [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/J1YgxWWBt3o/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AH-BIAC4AOKAgwIABABGHIgVyg8MA8=&rs=AOn4CLBfsS2VWvPrRNyd0UmQ0edo5NnO2A "The endzone was 68 yards away") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1YgxWWBt3o) ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2015, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cowboys-packers-1967-ice-bowl-most-brutal-weather-affected-major-sporting-event-ever/711316/25 "2015-02-11T23:27:41Z")
The 1904 Summer Olympics, [the marathon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athletics_at_the_1904_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Men's_marathon) in particular. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2015, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cowboys-packers-1967-ice-bowl-most-brutal-weather-affected-major-sporting-event-ever/711316/26 "2015-02-11T23:37:41Z")
[Marathon winner Thomas Hicks on his final race](http://marathonandbeyond.com/choices/duggan.html): “I am sorry to say that the road is the hardest over which I ever ran. I have done the distance in little over two hours and a half, but today I did my best. I lost 10 pounds as it was, and you can see that I could not push myself any faster and lose more.” ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2015, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cowboys-packers-1967-ice-bowl-most-brutal-weather-affected-major-sporting-event-ever/711316/27 "2015-02-13T00:16:50Z")
> [@mcgato](#): > > I always enjoyed the [Snow Bowl](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Bowl_%281985%29) game between Tampa Bay and Green Bay. It was a blizzard, and it was especially funny because Tampa Bay was there. I was at that game; I was home from college for Thanksgiving, and my ride back to UW-Madison wasn’t able to pick me up, due to the bad roads. So, my father and I went to the game (we lived about 4 miles from Lambeau). It was cold, but it was the snow that made it so memorable. Legend has it that the Bucs were trying to warm up on the field, before the game, when two of the Packers’ running backs came jogging onto the field, in t-shirts and shorts, laughing in the snow. That was more than a little demoralizing. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cowboys-packers-1967-ice-bowl-most-brutal-weather-affected-major-sporting-event-ever/711316.md?page=1)