The Ice Bowl The Green Bay Packers and Dallas Cowboys Season of 1967 eBook Mike Shropshire
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Some athletes never stop playing. Some rivalries transcend the gridiron. Some games last forever.
The Green Bay Packers and Dallas Cowboys engaged in a fierce rivalry in the 1966 season, culminating in the Packers defeating the Cowboys to win the NFL championship. The next year, they clashed again, and the result is a game that only needs three words to evoke lasting images from every player, every coach, and every fan who witnessed it “The Ice Bowl.” The final game of the 1967 season has become one of the most storied contests in NFL history, and sportswriter Mike Shropshire, author of SEASONS IN HELL, brings it all back to life in his panoramic look at the events leading up to the game and how the game influenced both franchises going forward. With photos and insight into the players who battled, as well as those who witnessed, THE ICE BOWL is a must-read for fans of every down.
The Ice Bowl The Green Bay Packers and Dallas Cowboys Season of 1967 eBook Mike Shropshire
"TheFrozen Tundra of Lambeau Field" was never truer on this day, the NFL Championship Game between the Dallas Cowboys and the Grren Bay Packers. The images have been well documented by NFL Films, the words spoken by John Facenda, but now, author Mike Shropshire gives you a "behind the scenes" narrative of that classic game.Product details
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The Ice Bowl The Green Bay Packers and Dallas Cowboys Season of 1967 eBook Mike Shropshire Reviews
For die hard Packer/Cowboy fans, this book probably didn't hit the spot, but for Mike Shropshire loyalists it's pretty good. The Last Real Season and Seasons in Hell were the two funniest sports books I've ever read, and I'd never put this one in that category, but it's an entertaining read. That the journalist inserts himself into the story occasionally or goes off on apparent tangents is a hallmark of the writer's style (and harkens back to the Gonzo method employed by Hunter Thompson). This isn't Shropshire's best work; however, as a fan of his, I don't regret purchasing or reading it. For the unacquainted, the author's strength has always been writing about Texas in the 1960's and 70's. I'd love to see him write a book about the SMU sports scandals of that era, and I'm looking forward to his book on Johnny Manziel that's coming out in 2014.
Review "The Ice Bowl"
"The Ice Bowl" by Mike Shropshire. New York Donald I. Fine Books, 1997. 218 pages with illustrations. Lists for $24.95
Make no mistake, Cowboy fans this book was written by a Packer-fan (Mike Shropshire) about the Packers, and for Packer-fans. When Shropshire does mention Dallas or the Cowboys, it is almost always in a disparaging way.
E.g., the first 14 pages of the book are a paen to the '96 NFL Championship Packer team (just what exactly that has to do with the Ice Bowl I never quite figured out -- but it certainly helps sell books to today's Cheeseheads [many of whom haven't a clue of football history prior to 1991] to mention Favre a few times).
In his prologue, the author goes to great lengths to contrast the good-guy-in-white-hat Packers to the bad-guy-in-black-hat Cowboys. Throughout the book, he disses the city of Dallas at every opportunity, and even manages to trash the state of Texas a few times as well (this coming from a guy who worked as a reporter for the Fort Worth Star Telegram!).
Of course, while extolling the virtues of today's Packers, he completely ignores Favre's vicodin problems, Tyrone Williams, Wayne Simmons, etc. Yet he finds space to opine on Michael Irvin's appearance at a grand-jury hearing!
Of course, this has nothing to do with the '67 season and the Ice Bowl, other than to fan the flames of the current Packer-Cowboy rivalry, which has been decidedly one-sided since 1989 (another fact that escapes mention in his book). Well, it *is* Shropshire's book, and he can darn well write whatever he pleases, as can I in reviewing it.
When he finally gets into the topic, his writing style is very irritating he constantly overuses metaphor and simile taken straight out of 50s sports pages. E.g., referring to a RB thrown for a loss (p. 132), he describes the RB as "trapped in his own backfield like a bug in a matchbox".
On p. 98 he describes the Saints field as "better suited for alligator poachers than football players". And those are some of the *better* examples. But after the fourth or fifth one, the literary device gets tiresome.
Also, either Shropshire doesn't remember some of his "facts" or the editors at Donald Fine Books didn't care enough to check them out (probably thinking Cheeseheads will buy the book regardless of the number of inaccuracies).
Just a sample on p. 15, he says the 1966 NFL Championship Game was played on December 30, 1966, when it was actually played on Janury 1, 1967. On p. 18, he lists the score of Super Bowl I as 34-10, when it was actually 35-10.
On p. 74, he refers to LA Ram Ed Meador as "Meaders". On p. 84, he writes of Richie "Pettiebone" which s/b Petitbon. He alleges on p. 95 that Don Meredith retired after the '69 season, when in fact Meredith retired after the '68 season.
In the space of five paragraphs in pp. 132-133, seven times he writes "Osburn" in reference to Minnesota Viking RB Dave Osborn. At p. 157, he changes the position of Cleveland QB Frank Ryan to a cornerback!
And at p. 161 he refers to a specific piece of equipment as a "tight" pad, when he obviously meant to write thigh pad.
I point out these errors not simply to criticize the man's inability to spell or to check simple, published facts. But since his editors apparently don't care enough about the reader to check them, one is left to wonder about the credibility and believability of the rest of Shropshire's story.
The author takes 14 chapters to build up to the fateful event, the fourth-and-goal from the Dallas one yard line. Yet for the all the build up, the author's description of the fateful play, and it's consequences in the fortunes of both teams, was sadly lacking.
After reading the climactic chapter 15 and the afterword, I had the feeling "Is that all there is?" After an emotional investment of fourteen lead-in chapters, I certainly expected (and had the right to, even knowing the outcome) much more.
Interesting note about the bookcover the dominant color theme of the dust-jacket is green and gold (understandably), yet the actual hard cover is in blue and silver (OK, light grey)!! The publisher is clearly trying to appeal to both sets of fans.
Bottom line Cheeseheads will love the book and will overlook its many creative faults and errors of fact. Cowboy fans can better spend their money on "Cotton Bowl Days" by John Eisenberg.
Copyright 1997 Fred Goodwin (originally submitted in 1997)
In the early years of "Saturday Night Live," Dan Ackroyd played a character named Leonard Pinth-Garnell, who would host a show called "Bad Ballet" or "Bad Theater" or whatever. They'd present a truly awful play or whatever, then cut to Leonard Pinth-Garnell applauding and saying "Awful! Dreadful! Simply terrible!" and roll the credits over footage of someone dropping the script into a trash can.
Well, if Leonard Pinth-Garnell ever wants to do "Bad Book" he can start with this one!
After learning of Ed Gruver's highly-rated book about the Ice Bowl, I looked for it at my local library, forgetting Gruver's name. That's how I picked this book up. Big mistake.
By the time I'd gotten into just the prologue, I felt like the kid in "The Emperor's New Clothes," wondering how anyone could like this book. So I came to , looked the book up, saw the existing reviews, and realized I'd gotten the wrong one.
Here are the things, JUST FROM THE PROLOGUE AND FIRST CHAPTER, that made me hate this book
1. "All about me" - Author Mike Shropshire just keeps sticking himself into things. "Here's what I did... so and so told me..." I'm much less interested in reading about the author than I am reading about the game.
2. Lame jokes - for example, two jokes about pot smoking. Tony Kornheiser and often Jerry Izenberg, citing just two examples, show that one can write informatively about sports while being funny. Shropshire manages neither while attempting both.
3. Getting the facts wrong - Page 15 He says that the Cowboys and Packers played for the 1966 NFL title on December 30, 1966. Actual date was January 1, 1967. Page 18 Packers beat the Chiefs 34-10 in first Super Bowl. Actual score was 35-10. This is nitpicky stuff, but when, again and again, Shropshire messes up information readily available, I take what he says with an increasingly-larger grain of salt.
I will now look for the Gruver book, and I expect to enjoy it. I can also recommend "Instant Replay" by Jerry Kramer and Dick Schaap, which also covers the game and the 1967 season, just much better than Shropshire's book; and "When Pride Still Mattered" by Dave Maraniss, which has an amazingly detailed and riveting chapter about the game.
To write such an awful book about such a compelling topic must have been hard work, but Shropshire managed it.
Good stuff. A wonderful trip down memory lane. I watched the game on TV while in high school. B rought back gre as t memories.
Good book about both clubs and the players who participated in this famous game.
great book
"TheFrozen Tundra of Lambeau Field" was never truer on this day, the NFL Championship Game between the Dallas Cowboys and the Grren Bay Packers. The images have been well documented by NFL Films, the words spoken by John Facenda, but now, author Mike Shropshire gives you a "behind the scenes" narrative of that classic game.
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