Flashback: Anderson, Grabowski replaced Packers legends

With Jim Taylor and Paul Hornung entering their eighth seasons with the Packers, Vince Lombardi drafted some new blood to infuse the Green Bay running game in 1966.




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Hornung and Taylor were going downhill. The offensive line was aging fast. Grabowski and Anderson did a solid job of helping to keep the offense moving for a couple of years. It isn't easy following in the footsteps of two future HOF members, especially when the offensive line is a shell of what it had been, a few years earlier.

They did a solid job, but there was some animosity by several players on the team that felt that they offered so much more, and got paid a small fraction of what they made. I won't mention names, but on different evenings at a local watering hole where I visited, and so did players, comments were made, while having drinks, and playing liars dice with a few players. It was understandable.

No matter, they weren't bad players, they were caught in a tough position to shine, but did well enough that they helped keep the Packer machine afloat for a short period of time.

Agree TW. I think both were solid backs. Not as talented as the guys they were replacing but good enough to be part of a championship quality team. As you say, by that point things were starting to deteriorate all over that team. OL still had a quality OT in Gregg and an adequate OC in Bowman, but other guys were getting over the hill.