Packers Quarterback
Starr began as a backup to Tobin Rote in 1956 and split time with Babe Parilli until 1959, Vince Lombardi's first year as Packers coach. In that season, Lombardi pulled starter Lamar McHan in favor of Starr, and he held the starting job henceforth. The following season the Packers advanced to the 1960 NFL Championship Game, but lost to the Philadelphia Eagles, Lombardi's only post season loss as a head coach. The Packers returned to the title game and won in 1961 and 1962, both over the New York Giants. In 1966, Starr was named the NFL's Most Valuable Player by the Associated Press (AP), the Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA) and UPI.
Starr was responsible for calling plays when he was quarterback, as was the norm at the time. One of his most famous play calls was in the Ice Bowl against the Dallas Cowboys in the NFL championship game on the final day of 1967. In Miami, the Packers defeated the AFL champion Oakland Raiders 33–14 in Super Bowl II, Lombardi's final game as head coach of the Packers. Bart Starr and the Packers surprised the runner-up Raiders. The 1967 Packers were the last team to win three consecutive NFL titles. Starr's playing career ended at the conclusion of the 1971 season, and at the time had the second best career passer rating at 80.5. (First at the time was Otto Graham at 86.6
In 1965, Starr and his wife Cherry helped co-found Rawhide Boys Ranch in New London, a facility designed to help at-risk and troubled boys throughout the state of Wisconsin, and continue to be affiliated with it.
In 2006, Starr (then 72) received a form letter from an 81-year old woman named Ruby Young residing in Kerrville, Texas alleging that the two had had an affair in 1960 and that he owed her $2 million in compensation for "mental and emotional distress" caused by the relationship. The letter was sent to the Rawhide Boys Ranch. Starr immediately turned it over to a US Postal Service investigator, who wrote two letters to Young posing as the former QB and received replies both times demanding money. Starr and his attorney issued a statement saying that he did not know and had never had any contact with Young, who was subsequently charged with extortion and given a suspended sentence under the condition she have no further contact with Starr or any of his family.
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