Yes, Virginia, Once Upon A Time, Real Men Played Football
Via Traces of Texas, on Facebook: "Dandy" Don Meredith, quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys, talks to reporters in the locker room following the famous "Ice Bowl" game against the Packers in Green Bay, Wisconsin, back in 1967. The game-time temperature at Lambeau Field was about -15 �F (-26 �C), with an average wind chill around -48 �F (-44 �C). It remains one of the most famous games in NFL history." Yes, that is a cigarette he is smoking. And yes, that is real hair on his chest. SportsDay writes: "[Bob] Lilly, A TCU graduate out of West Texas, unfamiliar with such brutal weather, suffered frostbitten fingers on his left hand in that game. His three mates on the defensive line that anchored Tom Landry's effective but quirky "Flex Defense" all suffered frostbite as well. ... "They might have worn gloves but Lilly recalled that old-school defensive coordinator Ernie Stautner admonished that such a luxury was for "sissies" ...