The Ice Bowl

My favourite NFL team is the Green Bay Packers, and my favourite game in the history of the league is the Ice Bowl, so I'm excited to watch another special on my pick for the greatest game ever, and I got a special about the Cowboys players, media personnel, and the players' relations whining that it was cold. This is pathetically idiotic. I don't want to hear Don Meredith's wife whine that it was cold and that they should have won the game. I want to hear about the game itself. The person who produced and directed it is Don Meredith's son, so maybe it's only natural it's just his son whining the Cowboys should have won? Whatever. This is stupid, and I will never watch Timeline again. Stupid.

I just saw The Ice Bowl on the NFL network and it was great! I was too young to see the game back in the day but despite growing up in Chicago I was a huge Cowboys fan. My father was a QB in the WFL and two of his coaches played in the Ice Bowl. This installment of The Timeline is the best one I've seen.

Don Meredith's son (the director) uses the famous "Ice Bowl" as a central theme to talk to players on both sides (and some civilians as well) about the game. Michael, as narrator, talks about his father, unsurprisingly, but is still a well-told story that keeps you watching. The game is (literally) legendary, with both teams having ups and downs, leading up to the agonizing (for us Cowboy fans) final score. One of the most touching moments is when Roger Staubach, looking back on the first Cowboy Super Bowl win, says "this was Don's team." But Don had moved on, eventually to join the great triumvirate that gave new life to the NFL.

Micheal said something interesting early on in the documentary, that he was racing the undertaker to get participants memories (Don himself had died 7 years before this was done.) Anyway, worth watching.