Dallas Cowboys' Jethro Pugh Died

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Jethro Pugh, a long-standing member of the Cowboys’ Doomsday Defense has died. R.I.P., Jethro.

The Cowboys will be playing in Green Bay this weekend in the playoffs. ESPN reports that it’ll be the first time they’ve played a postseason game there since the 1967 Ice Bowl. That’s somewhat hard to believe (I’m not doubting it).

It was Jethro Pugh who was blocked by the Packers’ Jerry Kramer in the last play of the Ice Bowl, where Packers QB Bart Starr scored on a sneak to win the game and send the Packers to the second-ever Super Bowl. It wasn’t called the Super Bowl back then, it was the championship game between the NFL and upstart AFL.

The Packers were the first team to win back-to-back Super Bowls, I and II.

R.I.P., Jethro Pugh.

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I’ll add that Pugh was on the Cowboys’ first four Super Bowl teams, and they won Super Bowl VI 24-3 over Miami, the year before the Dolphins’ Perfect 1972 season, and also 27-10 over the Broncos in their first-ever Super Bowl, Super Bowl XII after the 1977 NFL season.

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The Packers and the Cowboys met once in the 1980s and three times in the 1990s in the playoffs, but all those meetings were in Dallas, which Dallas all won as well.

NFL’s going to get ALL THE RATINGS for that game on the Sunday afternoon. Should be a pretty normal winter’s day in Green Bay apparently.