Product Details

• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 2
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Warner Home Video
• DVD Release Date: November 25, 2003
• Run Time: 172 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0000C8AO3
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #30,509 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

This history of the Green Bay Packers explores the rich story of this proud franchise, from its founding days to becoming one of the most beloved sports teams of the new millennium. The Ice Bowl is generally regarded as the most dramatic game in NFL® history, and yet does not fully exist anywhere on network videotape. NFL® Films catalogued thousands of feet of film to piece together the game, much of it never broadcast previously.

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36 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Perhaps the last game before football went corporate, March 22, 2001

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A. Hogan (Brooklyn, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The NFL's Greatest Games: The Ice Bowl [VHS] (VHS Tape)

The ice bowl is the first football game I have clear memory of. This tape,which is very well done, sets s up the game by showing what happened the year before in the championship game in Dallas,and how the Cowboys were ready to avenge that loss. Also, juxtaposed nicely, are the story of the 1967 packers, in the final year of their glory under Vince Lombardi. The tape brings the voice of Ray Scott,longtime voice of the packers and the NFL before the corporate suits took over the broadcast booth with ex jocks. The the game itself is shown virtually in its entirity, with clever voiceover by Scott sounding very much .like it did that day. With the temperature being -16 below zero, the players and fans literally were trying to survive as well as win. This is the best of the NFL tapes that I have seen,perhaps because of the seminal importance of the game,or simply for nostalgic reasons. Either way, this is an excellent tape and a good bargain,considering that you are likely to re-watch a sports tape. And, listening to the voice of the great Ray Scott is a distinct pleasure.

33 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Documentary of one of the Greatest NFL games, January 5, 1999

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This review is from: The NFL's Greatest Games: The Ice Bowl [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This video is a must have for any football fan. Rather than a short synopsis of a few plays from the Dallas-Green Bay NFL Cahmpionship game of 1967, this video shows nearly every play of the game, with radio broadcast and recent interviews of players involved in the game. You'll want to turn up the heat in your house when you hear the players talk about about how tough it was to play in sub-zero temps. The game itself was a great one, too, with many Hall of Fame players involved. Post game footage is shown, with a New Years party at Lombardi's house. Gotta love Vince!

24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Greatest Coach, and a Still-Greater Football Team. . ., January 21, 2005

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Carl Hoffman (Cleveland Heights,, OH United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: NFL Films - The Green Bay Packers - The Complete History (DVD)

DVD #1 presents a terrific hour-long history of the franchise. It hits both the high- and lowpoints, and indicates why the Packers are a national treasure and probably the greatest team in NFL history. Lambeau, Hutson, Lombardi, Starr, Nitschke, the Ice Bowl, Favre, White, the nine NFL championships, the three Super Bowls they won (I, II, and XXXI), and the one they lost (XXXII). The best fans in the league, the smallest venue, the most legendary stadium, and the team's miraculous survival over 80+ years, in no small part because they are the only pro team in any sport that is entirely owned by their fans. The highpoint, of course, is the 15-minute section entitled "Lombardi" which encapsulates the Green Bay career of the NFL's greatest coach--but at the end of this DVD about the Packers' heroic ongoing history, you realize that as great as Lombardi was, the team is greater still.

DVD #2 was produced earlier in VHS format (I bought it at the Packer Pro Shop in GB) and portrays the greatest game in Packers history and one of the greatest in NFL history. Other reviewers have justly praised its play-by-play reconstruction and modern-day interviews with the participants. Yes, Kramer was offside--but luck is a part of any game, and the Cowboys had a generous helping of it in the second quarter. Like another reviewer, I love the postgame interviews, even the glimpses of Green Bay in 1967. The muted colors of the frigid game (maybe Packer jerseys actually were that dark in the 60s--I see the same thing in footage of other games) and the elegaic tone of the final interviews give a haunting sense of a world that is now departed.