A childhood sports hero of mine. That was the era I paid attention to sports, and the Packers were
my favorite team even though I lived in St. Louis and had the Big Red to root for.
R.I.P.

Yeah. He was always a stand up guy. The local community of Green Bay could be harsh. When he was coaching the Packers, they were not winning. His kids were getting threatened at school. No one could match Lombardi.

I attended my last 2 years of high school in Green Bay and attended many Packer games. Green Bay wasn’t/isn’t a very big town and it wasn’t uncommon to see players in the grocery stores, bars, restaurants or clothing stores.

I ran into Bart a couple of times back then along with other players. They weren’t treated the way they are now and certainly weren’t millionaires. I viewed them as guys that played football for a living. You know, regular guys without attitudes.

Many of these World Champions only became bigger years after they retired.

Bart Starr was a classy guy. Rest In Peace.

Mike

With the ball at the 1-yard line at Lambeau Field, down three points to the Dallas Cowboys with 16 seconds to go, Starr ignored his frozen hands and body, the subhuman Green Bay conditions (the wind chill was minus 48 degrees), and the fact that he was an aging, athletically-challenged quarterback who had already been sacked by Dallas eight times. Starr asked to keep the ball in a huddle with Lombardi, who ordered him to push it across the goal line. "And then let's get the hell out of here," the coach cried.

Starr scored, of course, behind Jerry Kramer's famous block on Jethro Pugh

http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/...ll-player-ever-lived



A long time ago when I had several NFL "heroes".

It was a different game back then.

As a kid I watched the "Ice Bowl" I still remember his quarterback sneak to score the winning touchdown.
RIP Bart Starr

Met him in the late 80s or early 90s. Quite a classy guy. RIP.

Man, that sad.
I didn't realize he was that old.
He was THE QB idol of mine as a kid.
Watched the ICE Bowl too on a B&W tv.
RIP Mr. Starr.

Living in Birmingham, I ran into him several times. Nicest man I’ve ever met. I cherish the signed picture I have of him. I knew it was coming but I’m still very shocked and sad. They don’t make them like him anymore.

Great photo, sdy. We were in Chicago visting some family friends and like some others, watched the game on black and white tv. I think it was 16 below without the wind chill. I loved that Packer team.

I remember this football story being about Bart Starr. He was sacked for a loss and the defensive player rubbed Bart's face in the dirt. Bart rebuked the guy for being unsportsman like, and told him not to do it again. Of course the guy did it again later in the game. So Bart instructed the offensive line to not block the guy at all on the next play. The next play Bart unleashed a rocket of a throw right into the shmoo's forehead and knocks the shmoo silly.

^^^^^I think I remember a story like that. It might even be true.

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Originally posted by mr kablammo:
I remember this football story being about Bart Starr. He was sacked for a loss and the defensive player rubbed Bart's face in the dirt. Bart rebuked the guy for being unsportsman like, and told him not to do it again. Of course the guy did it again later in the game. So Bart instructed the offensive line to not block the guy at all on the next play. The next play Bart unleashed a rocket of a throw right into the shmoo's forehead and knocks the shmoo silly.

I believe that was a scene from "The Longest Yard" ~ at least the first one with Bert Reynolds, not sure if it was in the remake Adam Sandler version.
But it was definitely in the first movie - great scene.

Being born in 1963 and raised in Wisconsin I of course have been a lifelong Packers fan. I don't have much memory, if any, of the glory years of the 60's, but by the late 60's I'd watch games with my dad. Bart Starr was a hero of mine and in the summer of '71 I sent him a letter telling him I hoped his shoulder (his throwing arm was bad) got better following his surgery. I received a hand written letter back from him thanking me for my concern and an autographed picture. Man, I wish I still had that. I've got to believe that it is buried somewhere in stuff in my folks' basement.

Bart Starr was a class act of which we rarely see these days in professional sports. RIP, Bart.

A life well lived. RIP Mr. Starr

RIP Mr Starr. A total class act.

all good thoughts about him,
I wonder if he donated his brain ?

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all good thoughts about him,
I wonder if he donated his brain

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Was he suspected of having CTE, rather than dementia?

From an article I read, his wife thought he may have had CTE.

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Originally posted by sdy:
A long time ago when I had several NFL "heroes".

Mine was, and still is, Rocky Bleier, so I know what you mean (even though for the past 30 years or so I've had zero interest in anything NFL).

It was a different time, and these were good men.

RIP Mr. Starr. You're breed of man is mostly gone now.

I was looking something up about Bart Starr and found a companion picture to the one posted above.

This is the result of Starr's QB sneak in that championship game in 1967



note the awesome block by #64 Jerry Kramer

Starr is at the feet of the ref

it was Starr who suggested to coach Vince Lombardi during the Packers’ final timeout that he run a quarterback sneak for the first time that season.

Vince Lombardi stepped down as Packers coach one month after this game

https://www.packers.com/news/p...art-starr-dies-at-85