Super Bowl II — 1967 Season

Result

Super Bowl MVP

Bart Starr, QB, Green Bay Packers

Starting lineups

Starting offense

Starting defense

Box score

Passing

Rushing

Receiving

Game context

Super Bowl II was Vince Lombardi's final game as Green Bay Packers head coach, and the team sent him off with a third consecutive NFL/league championship -- matching the only other three-peat in league history, the 1929-31 Packers -- by defeating the AFL champion Oakland Raiders 33-14 at the Orange Bowl in Miami. Green Bay entered as 14-point favorites despite Oakland's dominant 13-1 regular season and its "Eleven Angry Men" defense, and the result reinforced, for what proved to be the last time, the prevailing view of NFL superiority over the AFL -- a perception the AFL's Jets would upend the very next year. Green Bay scored on each of its first three possessions and controlled the game throughout, aided by a message-sending hit from linebacker Ray Nitschke that leveled an Oakland receiver on the game's opening sequence. The Packers led just 16-7 at halftime but pulled away in the third quarter, controlling the ball for all but two and a half minutes of the period. Don Chandler kicked four field goals (39, 20, 43, and 31 yards), Boyd Dowler hauled in a 62-yard touchdown pass, and Herb Adderley sealed the outcome with a 60-yard interception return for a touchdown in the fourth quarter, pushing the final margin to 33-14. Quarterback Bart Starr, completing 13 of 24 passes for 202 yards, one touchdown and no interceptions for a 96.2 passer rating, was named Super Bowl MVP for the second straight year -- still, decades later, one of only a handful of players to win the award in consecutive seasons. He played through the second half with a jammed thumb on his throwing hand yet directed an offense that dominated time of possession (35:54 to 24:06) and out-rushed Oakland 160 yards to 107. Oakland's Daryle Lamonica threw for 208 yards and two touchdowns but was intercepted once and generated only sporadic pressure against Green Bay's control of the clock. The larger story of the day, however, was Lombardi's exit. Having already announced he would step down as head coach (while remaining general manager), Lombardi was carried off the Orange Bowl field by his players in one of the enduring images of early Super Bowl history -- his ninth consecutive playoff victory and a fitting capstone to a coaching tenure that had turned a moribund Green Bay franchise into the decade's dominant dynasty. The game also marked the final appearances for several holdovers from that dynasty, including receiver Max McGee, the hero of Super Bowl I, and kicker Don Chandler. With five NFL championships across seven seasons under Lombardi, including these first two Super Bowls, the Packers closed the 1960s as the unquestioned standard-bearer of professional football, even as the AFL, buoyed by the merger agreement already in place, prepared to close the gap dramatically over the following seasons.

Sources

• Wikipedia: Super Bowl II
• Pro-Football-Reference: Super Bowl Game Summaries