Richard Petre with Michael Gibbons: Sudden Death: The Green Bay Packers, the Baltimore Colts, and the NFL, 1965

The day after the Saints play in Baltimore, come on out to The Ivy to discuss the NFL season that was “an exclamation point” in the sport’s golden age.

We’re talking about 1965, the turning point in the war between the establishment NFL and the insurgent AFL– and when many of the greatest players ever (like Johnny Unitas, Jim Brown, Dick Butkus and Gale Sayers), took the field.

In Sudden Death, Richard Petre tells the story of that season through the historic conference race between Green Bay and Baltimore and played against the backdrop of national unrest and war in Vietnam.

Petre will join us on the Ivy patio to tell us more, alongside Michael Gibbons, former executive director of the Babe Ruth Birthplace Museum.