The Chester Marcol kick stands out for me, because I was 10 years old. I was in my room and I flipped on this old black and white tv that was held together with duct tape. What did I see? THAT play. I was hooked as a Packers fan. But it's not an iconic moment like the Ice Bowl play. That play seems like a distillation of the Lombardi era.
The Freeman play was a great miracle play. But it didn't distill a great dynasty down to it's essence. Neither did the Chester Marcol play or the "instant replay" game.
You might say the instant replay game is iconic in a sense. The Bears had dominated us earlier that decade. Now their time was over. That play galled Ditka so much he had an asterisk put in the game programs next to it. So maybe it was kind of a distillation of the "post Bears" era, signifying that their era was over.
And actually, that was the "miracle '89" season right? It was kind of exciting, because we finally had a QB to replace Lynn Dickey. We had gone through some desperate times, trying to salvage Marc Wilson of the Raiders and Vince Ferragamo. We ended up with Randy Wright. That totally sucked. Majik seemed to come out of nowhere.
So I guess that play sort of marked a turning of the tide, from Bears dominance to an era when the Packers started to come out of that horrible Forrest Gregg era.
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