From ESPN:
McGee had only four receptions for 91 yards during the 1966 regular season. He didn't plan to play in the title game against the Chiefs because he violated the team curfew and spent the night before partying. The next morning he reportedly told Dowler: "I hope you don't get hurt. I'm not in very good shape."
Dowler separated a shoulder on the Packers' second drive, and Lombardi summoned McGee. He had to borrow a helmet because he left his in the locker room. A few plays later, McGee made a one-handed snare of a pass from Bart Starr and ran 37 yards to score.
"When it's third-and-10," McGee once said, "you can take the milk drinkers and I'll take the whiskey drinkers every time."
After his football career was over, McGee became one of the original investors in Chi-Chi's Mexican Restaurants. He was the color commentary guy for the Packers Radio Network -- I don't know anybody in Wisconsin who listened to the TV sound back then. He had this endearing, low-key but dead-on accurate way of stating the facts. I remember once when a Packer Kenny Stills was called for a late hit McGee remarked nonchalantly "Stills? Oh, he's good for about 4 or 5 of those a season." At a team meeting Vince Lombardi held up a ball and announced "Gentlemen, this is a football." To which McGee replied "Not so fast not so fast." Only Max McGee could get away with that.
What Max McGee couldn't get away with was cleaning the leaves off his roof when he was 75. He fell off and died on Saturday. RIP, Max.
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