Lee Remmel



Lee Remmel worked 62 years with the Green Bay Packers as a sportswriter and later a team employee, and is recognized as the foremost authority on not only Packer history, but the history of the entire NFL.

On October 7, 1945, Remmel started covering the Green Bay Packers as a sportswriter for the Green Bay Press Gazette.

He was the only sportswriter who had covered all of the Packers coaches from the team's first coach Curly Lambeau to Mike McCarthy.

Former Packers quarterback Brett Favre described Remmel, "He’s a Packers icon. There will never be another like him. His knowledge of the team and its history has always been impressive. He is sharp as a tack when it came to those things – truly impressive."

Remmel was named Wisconsin's Sports Writer of the year in 1967.

Remmel was inducted in the Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame on March 30, 1996.

To honor his induction into the Packers Hall of Fame, the team built a new press box in August 2003, and they named it "The Lee Remmel Press Box".

Each April, the "Lee Remmel Sports Awards Banquet" honors high school to professional athletes. The banquet has raised over $150,000 for Green Bay area colleges and high schools.

Remmel joined the Packers front office in 1974 as director of public relations.

He continued to head the Packers PR department until Bob Harlan named him team historian in 2004.

Remmel possesses what the New York Times has described as probably the longest living memory of the N.F.L.

“I’d have to think for a heck of a long time to find someone like Lee who was a part of the old N.F.L. guard who is still around today,” said Gil Brandt, the former Cowboys personnel chief, who now analyzes the league for NFL.com. “In fact, it’s almost impossible to find someone who goes back to the early days as long a ways as Lee goes.”

"Lee has been a great ambassador for the Green Bay Packers for many years," Packers Chairman Bob Harlan said. "He is a class individual who has served this organization with the utmost professionalism and respect. Many people involved in this game and around the NFL have such great respect for him. His relationships with people are what have served him so well -- with the media, with the fans, everyone. He is the consummate professional."

"He must have told me a story about Art Rooney and the Steelers about 20 times just in the first year I was here," Packer Head Coach Mike McCarthy said. "People like Lee are so special because they have lived through so many decades and generations of this sport, especially with the history of the Green Bay Packers. He is someone special to this organization."