1967 Pro Bowl

{{Short description|National Football League all-star game}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2023}}

{{Infobox Pro Bowl

|type=pb

|name=1967

|image=LA Coliseum gate.jpg

|image_size = 230px

|caption = The front of the L.A. Memorial Coliseum

|visitor=Eastern Conference

|home=Western Conference

|visitor_qtr1=6

|home_qtr1=0

|visitor_qtr2=14

|home_qtr2=0

|visitor_qtr3=0

|home_qtr3=3

|visitor_qtr4=0

|home_qtr4=7

|date=January 22, 1967

|stadium=Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum

|city=Los Angeles, California

|visitor_coach=Tom Landry

|visitor_coach_team=Dallas Cowboys

|home_coach=George Allen

|home_coach_team=Los Angeles Rams

|MVP=Gale Sayers

|MVPteam=Chicago Bears, RB

|MVP2=Floyd Peters

|MVP2team=Philadelphia Eagles, DT

|anthem=

| odds = West (slight favorite){{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=gwMrAAAAIBAJ&sjid=vZcFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3224%2C2866542 |work=Reading Eagle |location=(Pennsylvania) |agency=Associated Press |title=West stars favored in Pro Bowl |date=January 22, 1967 |page=47}}

|coin_toss=

|halftime=

|referee=

|attendance=15,062

|network=CBS

|announcers=Lindsey Nelson, Pat Summerall

}}

The 1967 Pro Bowl was the seventeenth annual National Football League (NFL) all-star game which featured the outstanding performers from the {{nfly|1966}} season. The game was played on January 22, 1967, in a heavy rainstorm at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, California, before a sparse crowd of 15,062.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=GqpVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=J-EDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3793%2C5016060 |work=Eugene Register-Guard |location=(Oregon) |agency=Associated Press |title=East closes 'gap' with Pro Bowl win |date=January 23, 1967 |page=3B}} This was the second-lowest attendance in the history of the Pro Bowl, next to the inaugural game in January 1939, also in Los Angeles.

The head coaches were Tom Landry of the Dallas Cowboys for the East and George Allen of the Los Angeles Rams for the West.{{cite web |title=The 1967 Pro Bowl |url=http://www.mmbolding.com/BSR/The_1967_Pro_Bowl.htm |publisher=Bolding Sports Research |access-date=January 19, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111206104859/http://www.mmbolding.com/BSR/The_1967_Pro_Bowl.htm |archive-date=December 6, 2011 |url-status=dead }} The game was played a week after the first Super Bowl, on the same field.

For the second year in a row, the East dominated the West on the strength of turnovers, and won 20–10. They recovered two fumbles and intercepted four passes.{{cite news|title=Only 15,062 see East defeat West, 20–10 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=0MZaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=lWwDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5690%2C3565081 |access-date=January 19, 2012 |newspaper=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |date=January 23, 1967 |agency=AP |pages=26, 28}}

The game proved that the NFL had a successor to the great Jim Brown, the Hall of Fame fullback who retired prior to training camp,{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=LQJJAAAAIBAJ&sjid=-oIMAAAAIBAJ&pg=493%2C4145279 |newspaper=Youngstown Vindicator |location=(Ohio) |agency=Associated Press |title=Jim Brown announces retirement; Collier plans to readjust offense |date=July 14, 1966 |page=31}}{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=EflNAAAAIBAJ&sjid=bIsDAAAAIBAJ&pg=927%2C8234115 |newspaper=Free Lance-Star |location=(Fredericksburg, Virginia) |agency=Associated Press |title=Jim Brown retires from pro football |date=July 14, 1966 |page=16}}{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=4TQgAAAAIBAJ&sjid=I1AEAAAAIBAJ&pg=7179%2C4410770 |work=Pittsburgh Press |agency=UPI |title=Jim Brown gives up football |date=July 14, 1966 |page=34}} with the presence of the Chicago Bears' Gale Sayers, concluding his second NFL season. Sayers rushed for 110 yards on eleven carries and was named back of the game while veteran defensive tackle Floyd Peters of the Philadelphia Eagles was selected as lineman of the game.

Each team consisted of 34 players; the winners received $1,500 each and the losers $900.