PAINFUL EXIT: The confirmed death of a former Packers center who participated in three consecutive championships ….
(AP) — GREEN BAY, WI Ken Bowman, a member of three consecutive championship teams while playing centre for the Green Bay Packers from 1964 to 1973, passed away. He was eighty-one.
The Packers revealed on Tuesday that Bowman passed away in Oro Valley, Arizona, on Wednesday of last week. Although the cause of death was not disclosed by the organisation, Bowman’s wife, Roseann, was quoted in the Packers statement as stating that he passed away naturally.
In 1965, the year before the inaugural Super Bowl, Bowman was a member of the Packers’ NFL title-winning squad. He also played on the winning teams of the Super Bowl the following two seasons.
The most famous moment of his career was probably when he handed the ball to Hall of Fame quarterback Bart Starr and blocked his game-winning 1-yard touchdown sneak in the 1967 NFL championship game known as the “Ice Bowl,” which saw the Packers defeat the Dallas Cowboys 21-17 despite a kickoff temperature of minus-13 degrees Fahrenheit.
Bowman played for the Packers when they won the NFL championship in 1965, the year before the first Super Bowl was ever played. The next two seasons, he was a member of the winning Super Bowl teams.
In the 1967 NFL championship game known as the “Ice Bowl,” in which the Packers defeated the Dallas Cowboys 21-17 despite a kickoff temperature of minus-13 degrees Fahrenheit, he probably had the most notoriety for blocking Hall of Fame quarterback Bart Starr’s game-winning 1-yard touchdown sneak.
