Bart Starr
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Even before the Super Bowls, Starr's Packers had won NFL Championships in the 1961, 1962, and 1965 seasons, before winning the first two Super Bowls at the end of the 1966 and 1967 seasons.
Starr was responsible for calling plays when he was quarterback, as was the norm at the time. One of his most famed play calls came in the Ice Bowl against the Dallas Cowboys. With 16 seconds remaining in the game, no timeouts left and the Packers trailing 17-14, Vince Lombardi decided to go for the win rather than the tie. Starr called for a quarterback sneak because the frigid conditions made a handoff riskier than usual, though the play was risky enough because without any timeouts the Packers would not likely have had enough time to regroup and call another play if the sneak failed to cross the goal line. With the help of an excellent block of Dallas defensive lineman Jethro Pugh by center Ken Bowman and guard Jerry Kramer, Starr scored the winning touchdown to send the Packers to their sixth championship game in eight years, and would eventually lead to their fifth championship win in seven years. (The Packers had lost the 1960 Championship game.)