The NFL's Greatest Games

The American Football League presented an unconventional style of the game perfectly suited to the 1960s. When the AFL and NFL warred, then settled on a merger, the Super Bowl was formed. It seemed only a matter of time before the AFL would win the big one against the NFL. Super Bowl III was that time. The upstart New York Jets, riding a Beatles image, struck one mighty blow against a Baltimore Colts franchise that had known only bereavement all decade long. Interviews with over a dozen sports figures on the Jets, Colts, rival teams, and the media recall what was later termed the greatest football game of the 20th centuryand the greatest day in the history of the New York Jets.

The Green Bay Packers had to call on all their strength in character to even reach the 1967 NFL Championship Game. There, they met a Dallas Cowboys squad that had been named ""Speed Inc."" Everyone will remember that championship game as ""The Ice Bowl"" for its brutal temperature and wind chill. They will also remember it as the greatest game in Green Bay Packers history. It certainly was a testament to the pride that fueled Vince Lombardi, who was about to step down as Packer coach.

ESPN's Dan Patrick once described ""The Catch"" as the play that marked the end of one NFL dynasty and the start of another. But ""The Catch"" was really the penultimate event of one of the most remembered NFC Championship games in history.