Product Details

• Actors: NFL
• Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
• Rating: Unrated
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: NFL
• VHS Release Date: September 16, 1997
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6304570392
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #12,021 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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26 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

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

By A Customer

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!

28 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

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

By	A. Hogan (Brooklyn, NY USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good, almost great, June 18, 2001

By A Customer

Being only five years old when the Ice Bowl took place, I have spent much of my adult life attempting to re-create in my mind what it must have been like that arctic Sunday afternoon when the Packers and Cowboys attempted to play a game of football in weather unfit for man or beast. This video does a remarkably good job at transporting you back to the late sixties, when NFL football was still very much a game.

The reminiscences of players, coaches, journalists, and broadcasters is blended quite skilfully with the vivid footage of players shivering in makeshift tents on the sidelines, errantly melting their shoes in front of portable heaters (because they had no feeling left in their feet), mistaking effects microphones for sources of heat, and fashioning makeshift ballaclavas out of whatever was available. Such imagery lends great credence to the words of the participants.

Under such conditions you could forgive NFL Films for reducing the actual game to little more than a sideshow, but with many drives presented play-by-play, the tape pretty much flows like an actual broadcast (maybe better, given the absence of commercial breaks). For once, the famous goal-line sneak by Bart Starr is presented in its proper context - as part of an amazingly determined drive in which Chuck Mercein's reception a few plays earlier probably swung the game the Packers' way.

If there are any complaints, they're that Earl Mann's narration is sometimes a little too melodramatic and the "play-by-play re-creation" of the inimitable Ray Scott cheapens the overall quality of the production. Scott's voice still has the same remarkable sense of drama and suspense it did when he was the top voice at CBS, but surely it would have made more sense for him to have replaced Mann as narrator. "Re-creating" a play-by-play seems a overt appeal for the dumbed-down market.

That this is "The Greatest Game Ever Played" may be moot, but certainly this is one video whose time is long overdue. In the absence of footage from the original CBS broadcast, this is as close to real as it will probably ever get.