Chuck Mercein's Ice Bowl memories

"Once you're an ice cube, it's hard to make an ice cube much colder than it is"

Cliff Christl started gathering oral histories with former Packers and others associated with the team in 2000 and will continue to gather them as Packers historian. Excerpts from those interviews will be periodically posted atwww.packers.com

Fifty years ago, Chuck Mercein was the unsung hero of the Packers’ last-second victory over the Dallas Cowboys in the Ice Bowl. Mercein started at fullback, although he didn’t join the Packers until the ninth game of the season, and accounted for 34 of 68 yards on their game-winning drive. Selected by the New York Giants in the fifth round of the 1965 NFL Draft, Mercein was…