Then there's this one from the 1965 playoff between the Packers and the Colts for the NFL Western title. Don Chandler is trying to kick the field goal that will send the game into overtime. The goals posts have both a left and right stanchion. What you are seeing is the left one. Note Chandler's reaction. But the refs, standing on the end line, called it good and the Packers won in OT and beat the Browns for the title the next week on the same field.
Don Chandler kicks a FG that is called good in the 1965 NFL Playoff.#Packers#Colts
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In this poor quality link, Shula points out one good thing: they put the refs under the uprights and extended them. It was called the "Baltimore extension":
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But according to Packer's announcer Ray Scott, it "curved between the uprights". Right...
Sunday Dec 26, 1965Lambeau Field“Don Chandler's second field goal provided the winning margin for the Packers at 13:39 of sudden death overtime as Green Bay ...
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