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Bart Starr was somehow vastly underrated in his era

With his close-cropped hair and gentlemanly manners, Bart Starr will always be remembered as a player from another age, a poster boy, if you will, of the silent majority -- the quarterback who dutifully executed the orders of the game's greatest field general, Vince Lombardi.

In the 1960s, he played John Glenn to Joe Namath's John Lennon.

But in one of the most memorable games in NFL history, on the 1-foot line of the frozen tundra of Lambeau Field in Green Bay, in what history will forever remember as the Ice Bowl, Starr ignored the orders of his commander.