Green Bay — William "Red" Mack ended his National Football League career on top, as a Super Bowl champion.
Mack played only one season with the Green Bay Packers, concluding his six-year professional career in January 1967 with the Packers' 35-10 victory over the Kansas City Chiefs in the first-ever AFL-NFL championship game, later to be dubbed the Super Bowl.
Head coach Vince Lombardi needed some veteran depth at wide receiver in case Boyd Dowler, Carroll Dale, Max McGee, or Bob Long went down. He called Mack, a former Notre Dame standout and Oconto, Wis.