1970 Green Bay Packers season

Infobox NFL season
team = Green Bay Packers
year = 1970
record = 6-8
division_place = 3rd NFC Central
coach = Phil Bengston
stadium = Lambeau Field
Milwaukee County Stadium
playoffs = Did not qualify
previous = 1969
next = 1971

The 1970 Green Bay Packers season was their 50st season in the National Football League. The club posted a 6-8 record under coach Phil Bengston, earning them a 3rd place finish in the NFC Central division.

Offseason

The Packers' 1970 season was played in a state of mourning. After a summer in and out of Georgetown Hospital, Vince Lombardi succumbed to cancer on September 3, at the age of 57. Over 3,500 people attended Lombardi's funeral, including pallbearers Bart Starr, Paul Hornung and Willie Davis. Three days after his death, NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle announced that the Super Bowl trophy would be renamed in Lombardi's honor.

1970 NFL draft

In the 1970 NFL draft, the Packers used their two picks in the first-round to choose Mike McCoy and Rich McGeorge. In total, the Packers selected 20 players in the draft, nine of those being in the first seven rounds.cite web | url = http://www.nfl.com/draft/history/fulldraft?teamId=1800&type=team | title = Draft History - Green Bay Packers | publisher = NFL.com | accessdate = 2007-02-09]
*"Only the first 7 rounds are shown" [NFL 2001 Record and Fact Book, Workman Publishing Co, New York,NY, ISBN 0-7611-2480-2, p. 297]

Post season

After a turbulent season filled with labor disputes, blowout losses, and the final merger of the AFL and NFL, the Packers had only their second losing season since 1959. Thoroughly frustrated, Phil Bengtson resigned two days after being shut out in the season finale against the Detroit Lions. Disappointed with Bengston's overall 20-21-1 record during three seasons as Vince Lombardi's handpicked successor, it was obvious the organization and the community craved the high standards of winning established a decade earlier.

The 1970 season was also the final season of Forrest Gregg as a Packer, a year later he returned home to play for the Dallas Cowboys where he joined his own teammate Herb Adderley.

tatistical leaders

The following players led the Packers in the following statistical categories in 1970.cite web | url = http://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/gnb/1970.htm | title = 1970 Green Bay Packers Statistics and Players | publisher = Pro-football-reference.com | accessdate = 2007-01-06]

References

External links

* [http://www.packers.com/ Packers.com]
* [http://www.sportsecyclopedia.com/nfl/gb/packers.html Sports_Encyclopedia.com]
* [http://www.databasefootball.com/teams/teampage.htm?tm=GNB&lg=nfl Database_Football.com]