sschumer - Packer Fan HoF'r posted:When the Packers beat the Vikings 23-7 in Minnesota at the end of the 1972 season to win the division. This was the Vikings team that had been in the Super Bowl just a couple of years earlier and would not only go on to dominate the division throughout the '70s, but would represent the NFC in 3 of the next 4 Super Bowls. So this Packers win was an incredible upset at the time. That Packers '72 team had a devastating running game with John Brockington and MacArthur Lane, and a great, great defense -- #1 in the NFC that year, #2 in the NFL behind only the Super Bowl champion Miami Dolphins. They were young and hungry, with John Brockington the Rookie of the Year the year before, and both CB Willie Buchanon and PK Chester Marcol picking up those same honors in '72. If not for Devine's ego overruling Bart Starr's calls in the '72 playoffs vs. Washington, that Packer team might very well have won that Super Bowl over the Dolphins. Devine had an excellent team to build on, but destroyed it with his inability to find a better QB than Scott Hunter and in his disastrous trade for John Hadl basically doomed the franchise to mediocrity for the rest of that decade. But that win over the Vikings was probably the highlight of the entire '70s. I thought that day the Pack was truly back. And they were -- but could have been for years after. Great clip of that '72 Packer team win over the Vikings:
I cannot like this post enough, sschumer!