Max McGee

The room empties.

Lombardi approaches veteran Max McGee.

'What did you think?' Lombardi asked.

'Well, I'll tell you, you got their attention, Coach,' McGee replied.

And at second and seven.

And Max McGee has moved into the Packer lineup.

Replacing Marv Fleming.

That'll move Boyd Dollar over to tight end.

He's still on the field.

Wait a minute, it was Boyd Dollar.

Boyd Dollar, not Max McGee.

He's getting up slowly.

Absolutely, because just the rivalry... is the rivalry, but Ditka and the Packers hated each other.

He and Forrest Gregg were like blood enemies and he hated Max McGee.

And the rivalry back then was every bit as intense as it is now and probably even a little bit more personal.

And boy, he was right in the middle of that.

Now, I don't know.

I used to, back in the day, we used to, when we'd watch Packer games as kids a lot, we'd sync up the radio and get the Jim Irwin at the time and Max McGee call, and later Larry McCarren in there with all, with both of them.

We'd sync that up and listen to that along with the TV broadcast.

We thought about, my wife and I thought about doing that last night, but I don't know how that timing works now.

And then Willie Wood, back at USC, uh, intercept- or back in the Coliseum, I should say, intercepts Len Dawson early in the third quarter, returns it to the five, Green Bay scores, and then, you know, the gap becomes obvious, and Packers win 35-10, Bart Starr is MVP.

Um, Max McGee, who had been out all night drinking, [laughs] still manages to-

It's a great story

... catch his first touchdown.

No, it's amazing.

You know, he didn't think he was gonna play, so he went out, um, because he figured, "I'm the backup, I can go out.

You're Max McGee, you're not playing.

Why not?" Right? Because Boyd Dowler's the starting wide receiver.

For

the Green Bay Packers, when they have the ball, at left end, Max McGee from Tulane, his sixth year in the National Football League.

At left tackle, from Indiana, four-year player Bob Skowronski.

At left guard, Fred Fuzzy Thurston.

How about Green Bay as far as their physical condition is

concerned today? Most of their players, and again, to the best of my knowledge, Jim, have come back from whatever injuries they have had during the season, with the one exception I mentioned earlier, guard Jerry Kramer, who sustained an injury early in the season, and of course they have lost him for the year, but they have made the necessary adjustment at that position.

Max McGee was injured in the San Francisco 49er game.

He is pronounced ready.