Perkins, who expired yesterday, was said by Walt Garrison to be the best fullback Dallas ever had. (My favorite remains the late, great Robert Newhouse, but Perkins was consistently terrific, too.)

What I can't recall specifically is the late Perkins having played in The Ice Bowl. Anyone know if he did?

BRYAN STYBLE/Florida
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Perkins

In article <90fd76d6-6c3e-48f0-a252-c23d0ccee2aan@googlegroups.com>,
<"radioacti...@gmail.com"> wrote:

> Perkins, who expired yesterday, was said by Walt Garrison to be the best
> fullback Dallas ever had. (My favorite remains the late, great Robert
> Newhouse, but Perkins was consistently terrific, too.)
>
> What I can't recall specifically is the late Perkins having played in The Ice
> Bowl. Anyone know if he did?

Yes, he did. 17 carries for 51 yds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_NFL_Championship_Game#%22The_Ice_Bowl
%22

I thought the stuff about the cold conditions was really interesting.

This is a detailed NFL Films documentary on The Ice Bowl which I nearly didn't watch.

I'm not a fan of how Sabol and his father production team seldom use regular speed in their various productions always trying to add drama instead of letting the footage do it.

B,ut I was lured in by the fact that it apparently includes every single play. But I was STILL leery, because I positively detest the way NFL Films always uses add these oh-and-WHAT-A-CATCH!!! -style radio play-by-play guys who stage TRANSPARENTLY (and thus cynical) phony-baloney recreations of what some viewers surely fall for being real, vintage booth-chatter from the game. (Never mind that the re-creating voices are going at real-time pace while speaking over slow-mo footage!)

And those overheated voices NFL Films uses--there are a bunch of them, one as overwrought as the next--NEVER sound legit, especially with all the phony crowd-noice which is overlaid their faux play-by-play.

BUT: it so happens THIS NFL Films doc has the great, late CBS booth man Ray Scott doing the recreation. Scott understood you let the FILED PLAY be the excitement; the guy in the booth (a recordist's booth, instead of a stadium booth in this case, obviously) should just describe the action, not add insincere emoting in a silly effort to punch up the goings on for the audience.

This long-form production indeed includes every single play of The Ice Bowl on New Year's Eve '67-'68 afternoon, but with a GREAT bonus: a detailed wrap with loads of footage from the almost equally memorable Packers/Cowboys Super Bowl I prelude at the Cotton Bowl the PREVIOUS year!

As for the late Don Perkins, he not only had a better Ice Bowl game for the Cowboys than his stats should suggest (along with the late Dan Reeves, who looked even stronger on the tundra), but Perkins ALSO came off as POSITIVELY CHARMING in the looking-back interstitial interview clips! Man, he really shoulda auditioned for the ABC booth with Cosell when Meredith--who had a terrific Ice Bowl game, not incidentally--retired from the Monday Night Football booth!

There's also detail examination about the winning Packers play; turns out Chuck Mercine thought when they lined up that HE was gonna get the ball! Apparently, Starr saw what wide a hole Kramer's block opened up on Jethro Pugh that he kept the ball instead of turning for the handoff. (And whether Kramer was offsides that historic play is also scrutinized; he was, and Jethro was right, by Kramer's eventual admission.)

Hope any of y'all who spend the time to watch this in full get the same thrills I did; jeez, I felt like I was 13 again, in anticipation of the New Year's Eve hoopla that night and 1968 in the offing.

STYBLE/Florida
============https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGjg7j-qTvw

LOUSY LEDE: I made it sound like I nearly passed on The Ice Bowl.

No, back on Sunday 12/31/1967, there was no WAY I was gonna miss that--or ANY other NFL championship game in the period ongoing period 1965-2022--if only on B&W TV.

What it was that I nearly didn't watch was this NFL Films DOCUMENTARY...because I am always so put off by the usual phony vocal drama on Sabol's many shows. But again, thanks to Ray Scott, the phony booth patter was first-rate (if re-recreated, alas), and the circumstances themselves provided more than ample drama.

Sorry for my ambiguous phraseology.

STYBLE/Florida