So how many Packers from Super Bowl I are still with us?
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Here's a link to the SB I roster.
It will take some time to look through all the names, but I'd guess a surprisingly large number of them are still living. Albeit, some are just barely hanging on.
SB I Roster
I was just looking at a list of the oldest living Packers (I believe current as of April 14), and there are still four members of the 1949 Packers (Curly's last Packer team) with us.
First time these words have ever been written at X4:
"Thanks for sharing that, Fedya."
You probably have the card, too. 
No, but your post added him to my list.
I am collecting every Packer card put out between 1948 (Leaf) and 1975 (Topps)....and the cards of every player that spent time with the Packers at any point in time......that has lead me to such guys as Lamar McHan and the greatest football card....ever:
That hotlinking image is an interesting card. 
Blair Kiel posted:
Wiki says he went to Compton Jr. College. So did Pete Rozell.
Fedya posted:That hotlinking image is an interesting card.
Yeah, since I don't travel with my collection I hot-linked an image of the card. Tonight when I get home, I will take a picture of the one I own with my middle finger extended towards you to prove I own it.
Timmy! posted:Here's a link to the SB I roster.
It will take some time to look through all the names, but I'd guess a surprisingly large number of them are still living. Albeit, some are just barely hanging on.
SB I Roster
Going through this list, I found that many players are still with us. What was intriguing, though, was each player's playing weight. Gale Gillingham, Guard, weighed 255. Lionel Aldridge, Right Defensive End, weighed 254 and Jerry Kramer, Guard, weighed 245. It was a different league back then!
I read a NY Times article from the '62 championship week wherein Jerry Kramer was described as "A giant of a man" weighing over 235 lbs.
You have to remember that the great depression deprived a lot of people of their full genetic birthright. Many were malnourished and the "norm" was consequently reduced.
My paternal grandfather was over 6' tall and Grandma was about 5'7" even in her 60's. Yet my dad, born in 1928, grew up fairy tale poor and barely reached 5'9". My mom was 5'4". Only one of their 4 sons didn't grow over 6' tall. Dad told me how his mom made sure he got a glass of milk every week. We had a freakin' river of the stuff in our house.
Blair Kiel posted:Fedya posted:That hotlinking image is an interesting card.
Yeah, since I don't travel with my collection I hot-linked an image of the card. Tonight when I get home, I will take a picture of the one I own with my middle finger extended towards you to prove I own it.
I assume you have the AJ Hawk card, too:
Dad told me how his mom made sure he got a glass of milk every week. We had a freakin' river of the stuff in our house.
We had a river of the stuff in our house when I was growing up, and I only reached 5'8". Of course, Grandpa was about 5'2", and not because of the depression.
Fedya posted:Blair Kiel posted:Fedya posted:That hotlinking image is an interesting card.
Yeah, since I don't travel with my collection I hot-linked an image of the card. Tonight when I get home, I will take a picture of the one I own with my middle finger extended towards you to prove I own it.
I assume you have the AJ Hawk card, too:
I still need the McHan card.
Anybody want to trade a Howton card for one?
It's OK; we're used to your being wrong.
Your Howton card must be pre 1959. Lombardi traded him as one of his first acts as GM.
'59 was also the year Lombardi changed the uniforms from blue to green, wasn't it?
Ammo. Correct. That was a '58 Topps. The '59 set Fedya, shows a combo of some blue and some almost olive green uniforms. Many times they would use pictures from previous years, so I do think the Pack went "Green" in '59. Also, notice Jim Taylor-----that's not Jim Taylor---Topps used the wrong picture of him two years in a row.
Yeah, I'm a geek.
I don't think Jerry Kramer ever wore 68 either. Maybe as a practice jersey or some thing.
I just bought a new card!
Get a room.
That's some throwing motion. Obviously a Tedford quarterback.
The jump pass was big back in the day.
