1970 Lions 30 - 1963 Packers 7

The 1970 Lions have the weakest real life W - L record of any team in the tournament, but they are in it for a reason, or rather, a couple of reasons. This team intercepts like nobody's business, and QB Greg Landry in a fascinating weapon. How so? Colin Kaepernick, RGIII, Michael Vick....pikers compared to this guy as a running QB. Well, OK, thats an exagerration. Still, Landry gained 350 yards running in 1970 - on 35 attempts. If you do the math that works out to a healthy 10.0 YPC. He was also a very good passer on top of it. In this game I only ran two designed runs with Landry, but he also scrambled on occasion, one of those being a 49 yard TD run. Apart from that he only hit six passes all game against the very tough Green Bay pass defense. Given that the Lions picked off Bart Starr an appalling five times, four in the first half, and threw in another pick late versus scrub QB John Roach, the very limited Lions offensive production was quite enough. This was a game where the Lion's two biggest weapons came into play in a huge way, enough to upset a much better overall team. The problem with the real life Lions was that they got swept by the Vikings and were then beaten in round one of the playoffs by the 1970 Cowboys, under terrible weather conditons, by the unusual score of 5 - 0. This is also the most recent Lions team in the tournament, which is pretty sad when you think about it.

1963 Green Bay 7, 1970 Detroit 30
	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	OT	Total
1963 Green Bay	0	0	0	7	0	7
1970 Detroit	10	14	6	0	0	30

Scoring Plays
Qtr	Clock	Poss	Scoring Description(Extra Point)	Score
1	9:06	1970 Detroit	E.Mann 26 yd. field goal	3-0 DEN
1	0:56	1970 Detroit	A.Taylor 4 yd. run (E.Mann kick)	10-0 DEN
2	2:50	1970 Detroit	C.Sanders 14 yd. pass from G.Landry (E.Mann kick)	17-0 DEN
2	0:52	1970 Detroit	G.Landry 49 yd. run (E.Mann kick)	24-0 DEN
3	6:37	1970 Detroit	E.Mann 44 yd. field goal	27-0 DEN
3	3:56	1970 Detroit	E.Mann 13 yd. field goal	30-0 DEN
4	4:55	1963 Green Bay	R.Kramer 14 yd. pass from B.Starr (J.Kramer kick)	30-7 DEN

Team Statistics
	1963 Green Bay	1970 Detroit
First Downs by Rush-Pass-Pen-Total	4-6-0-10	8-5-3-16
Third Down Efficiency	4-10-40%	6-13-46%
Fourth Down Efficiency	0-0-0%	0-0-0%
Red Zone Efficiency (pts-poss-pct)	7-7-100%	20-28-71%
Total Offense-Plays-Avg Yards Per Play	190-46-4.1	266-60-4.4
Total Net Yards Rushing	88	175
Total Rushes	26	42
Average Per Rush	3.4	4.2
Passes Completed/Attempted	8/20 (40.0%)	7/16 (43.8%)
Net Yards Passing	102	91
Avg Yards Per Pass	5.1	6.6
Sacked/Yards Lost	0/0	2/14
Punts/Average	4/39.3	4/42.5
Punts Received/Return Yardage	2/0	2/20
Kickoffs/Returns	7/130	1/15
Interceptions/Returns	0/0	6/76
Penalties/Yards	6/53	2/10
Total Fumbles/Fumbles Lost	2/1	3/1
Time of Possession	23 mins 53 secs	36 mins 7 secs
Average Drive Start	GBN 26	DEN 45

Passing Stats
	Att	Comp	Yds	Comp %	Yds/Att	TD	TD %	INT	INT %	Long	Sack	Rating
1963 Green Bay
Bart Starr	19	8	102	42.1	5.4	1	5.3	5	26.3	23	0/0	37.5
John Roach	1	0	0	0.0	.0	0	0	1	100.0	0	0/0	0.0
1970 Detroit
Greg Landry	15	6	89	40.0	5.9	1	6.7	0	0	30	2/14	82.4
Bill Munson	1	1	16	100.0	16.0	0	0	0	0	16	0/0	118.8

Rushing Stats
	No	Yds	Avg	Long	TD	2 Pt Conv	Fumbles/Lost
1963 Green Bay
Jim Taylor	14	46	3.3	9	0	0	1/0
Earl Gros	5	29	5.8	19	0	0	0/0
Tom Moore	5	11	2.2	8	0	0	0/0
Elijah Pitts	2	2	1.0	2	0	0	0/0
1970 Detroit
Mel Farr	15	29	1.9	8	0	0	2/1
Altie Taylor	12	33	2.8	7	1	0	0/0
Greg Landry	6	87	14.5	49	1	0	0/0
Bill Triplett	4	14	3.5	5	0	0	0/0
Steve Owens	3	9	3.0	6	0	0	0/0
Nick Eddy	2	3	1.5	5	0	0	0/0

Receiving Stats
	No	Yds	Avg	Long	TD	2 Pt Conv
1963 Green Bay
Elijah Pitts	3	27	9.0	10	0	0
Bob Jeter	2	25	12.5	16	0	0
Jim Taylor	2	36	18.0	23	0	0
Ron Kramer	1	14	14.0	14	1	0
1970 Detroit
Charlie Sanders	5	96	19.2	30	1	0
Larry Walton	2	9	4.5	5	0	0

Field Goals
	1-19	20-29	30-39	40-49	50+	Totals	% Made
1963 Green Bay
1970 Detroit
Errol Mann	1/1	1/1	0/0	1/1	0/0	3/3	100

Punting
	No	Avg	Net	Tb	Inside 20	Long	Blocked
1963 Green Bay
Jerry Norton	4	39.3	34.3	0	2	44	0
1970 Detroit
Herman Weaver	4	42.5	42.5	0	4	48	0

Kickoff Returns
	No	Yds	Avg	Long	TD
1963 Green Bay
Herb Adderley	5	93	18.6	22	0
Earl Gros	2	37	18.5	25	0
1970 Detroit
Bobby Williams	1	15	15.0	15	0

Punt Returns
	Ret	FC	Yds	Avg	Long	TD
1963 Green Bay
Elijah Pitts	2	0	0	0.0	0	0
1970 Detroit
Lem Barney	2	1	20	10.0	16	0

Individual Defense
	Tackles	Sacks	Fum Rec
1963 Green Bay
Ray Nitschke	10	0	0
Dave Hanner	10	1	0
Dan Currie	7	0	0
Henry Jordan	5	0	0
Willie Davis	3	1	1
Willie Wood	3	0	0
Herb Adderley	3	0	0
Jesse Whittenton	2	0	0
Bill Forester	2	0	0
Hank Gremminger	2	0	0
Fuzzy Thurston	0	0	1
1970 Detroit
Mike Lucci	5	0	1
Wayne H. Walker	5	0	0
Jerry Rush	4	0	0
Bobby Williams	3	0	0
Larry Hand	3	0	0
Ed Mooney	2	0	0
Tom Vaughn	2	0	0
Paul Naumoff	2	0	0
Alex Karras	2	0	0
Lem Barney	2	0	1
Mike Weger	1	0	0
Jim H. Mitchell	1	0	0
Bill Triplett	1	0	0
Mel Farr	0	0	1

Interceptions
	No	Yds	Avg	Long	TD
1963 Green Bay
1970 Detroit
Tom Vaughn	3	36	12.0	29	0
Dick LeBeau	2	26	13.0	14	0
Ed Mooney	1	14	14.0	14	0

Game Story

With some room to spare Detroit smoked Green Bay by the score of 30 to 7. Greg Landry carried the ball 6 times for 87 yards and added a touchdown. Detroit controlled the ground game, out-rushing Green Bay 175 to 88 yards. They controlled the ball for 36:07. Detroit took the early lead outscoring Green Bay 10 to 0 in the first quarter.

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