GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) – The Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame is now displaying a piece of one of the most famous games in Lambeau Field history.
A 5-foot-long section of goalpost ripped down in the celebration following the “Ice Bowl” has been donated to the hall. It came from Stew Mills and the Mills family, who received it from the James and Barbara Smith family.
The hall of fame says both families were at that 1967 NFL Championship Game, where temperatures were at -13 degrees.
Hall of fame officials say the Smith family went onto the field to celebrate after Packers quarterback Bart Starr snuck across the goal line in the closing seconds in the team’s 21-17 win over the Dallas Cowboys.
The Smiths were part of a group that tore down the goalposts, loaded them into their family van and took them to a construction company’s shop operated by another fan in the group. The goalpost was then cut into pieces divided among the group.
The Smith family’s section remained in their Town of Center home until 1990, when James Smith gave it to the Stew and Henry Mills families as a gift. It was then displayed in the Mills Fleet Farm office in Grand Chute.
The post will be displayed in the Ice Bowl Theater on the second floor of the Packers Hall of Fame.
