Anybody else here remember the 62 Championship Game

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it was Jim Collier's block and falling on a punt for a TD that was our only score...The wind was brutal...

I cross posted your post over at BBGC's History Board, to see if some of the members there remember.

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but I've never watched it in it's entirety knowing the outcome.

Make that the '61 game not '62.I have the '62 Oilers-Texans AFL Championship GAme.THAT was fun to watch-I think it was Blanda vs Dawson.

for this epic classic.

my daddy was barely a teenager.

It was cold and the wind was blowing very hard throughout the game. The Giants couldn't throw the ball. Green Bay ran the ball very well. Jim Taylor bit right through his lip and was bleeding. Great game.

I remember all the championship games from 56 through 63. We just weren't as good as the Packers, but we should have beaten the Bears. The injury to Y A Tittle, was tough to take. Could you imagaine today any player continue to finish the game after they had blown out their knee?

That game (16-7), I listened to it on the radio, Marty Glickman was the announcer, and I listened with my Dad. It was heartbreaking, that game and the 1963 game against the Bears (14-10) were both heartbreaking. The Giants had a well balanced team, they were good offensively and defensively. They really should have won the Bears game, but the packers just seemed to have our number, although i believe we lost a very close game in Breen Bay early in 1961, so the blowout was a little supprising. Back then the Cleveland browns were rivals with us, they had Jimmy Brown. The Packers and the Colts were good teams, and the bears snuck in a 1 year wonder team on us, that is the one that hurt the most.

But I think we were a much better passing team, but the weather conditons were once again, right up Green Bay's alley.

In those days our running game was basically a screen pass to Webster. We never seemd to be able to power run.

by it as did greenbay with the sweep. gifford was not a bad running back, webster was a god power fullback, rote by then had shoited out to receiver. ouir offensive line was a pretty good run blocking line with stroud and roosevelt brown and wyetecka(?sp) at center. I am blocking (no pun intended) the name of the other guard and tackle but they were not just pass blockers.

we ran the screen a lot and the half back option a lot because of giffords great skill at running and throwing the football. remember he had been a running/throwing single wing back at USC. so that was a huge threat.

as i remember it, it was greenbay running game, a few good throws by starr to their huge tight end over the middle, and the fact that our offense never really got going against the greenbay "d". I was bummed out too.

How's that confidence of yours now? grin

I was broken hearted after losing the first Championship to Green Bay, and I just knew the GIANTS would turn it around and win the second time.

But they didn't.

It has been observed by several posters on this site that us old timers are conditioned to see the GIANTS lose the big ones, fail to make it over the top. The repeated Championship failures against the Colts and the Packers are certainly the genesis of this feeling.

That said, I don't really harbor any ill will towards the Packers, even if they didn't let Vince Lombardi return to the GIANTS. It was a long, long time ago.

This year's GIANTS humbled Dallas in their own house to keep "Choke" Romo winless in the playoffs, reduce that crawling shit T.O. to tears, and further deepen the wrinkles on Jerry Jones face. I don't care what happens at Lambeau next weekend, it's already been a successful season.

by defense.Their O didn't cross midfield all game.They had some tough SOBs then-O'Bradovich,probably Doug Atkins a real tough Defensive Lineman.Probably Petitbon at Safety too.