1962 NFL Championship Game

[2][3][4][5][6] The Packers were led by hall of fame head coach Vince Lombardi, in his fourth year, and the Giants by Allie Sherman, in his second season.

[8] Green Bay won 16–7, behind the performances of game Most Valuable Player linebacker Ray Nitschke, and fullback Jim Taylor.

Afterwards, the area commonly known as the NYC metropolitan area had a lengthy hosting drought, as the next league championship game was the Super Bowl XLVIII on February 2014 at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey (commonly known as an inner suburb of New York City), which resulted in the Seattle Seahawks defeating the Denver Broncos 43–8.

An additional title game was played at the Polo Grounds in 1936, hosted by the Boston Redskins and won by the Packers.

[15] Although the weather was temperate the previous day,[13] during the contest it became so cold due to wind chill that a cameraman filming the game suffered frostbite, and television crews used dugout bonfires to thaw out their cameras.

[2][19] The wind caused the ball to be blown off the tee three times during the opening kickoff, and a Green Bay player had to hold the ball onto the tee so Willie Wood (later ejected for bumping back judge Tom Kelleher) could kick it off.

Tittle then tried to hit tight end Joe Walton near the goal line, but a timely Packer blitz by Forester and Nitschke allowed the latter to deflect the pass which was intercepted by fellow linebacker Dan Currie.

A halfback option pass from Paul Hornung to flanker Boyd Dowler took the Packers to the Giants seven-yard line.

[20] The weather worsened by halftime and the wind swirled dust around the stadium, tearing apart the ballpark's U.S. flag, and knocking over a television camera.

[17] After blocking a Max McGee punt and recovering it for a touchdown to pull the game to 10–7 in the third quarter, the Giants defense forced the Packers into a three and out on their next possession.

Tittle, with the aid of two Packers penalties, then drove the Giants from their own 20 to the Green Bay 18 on the ensuing drive.

Led by Taylor, who repeatedly ran for key first downs, the Packers advanced the ball down to the New York end of the field, where Kramer kicked a third field goal (on five attempts) to make the score 16–7 with under two minutes to play.

[18] Kramer had not played in the previous year's title game, after a lower leg injury in late October sidelined him for the rest of the 1961 season.