“He had a tremendous love for the organization, a tremendous love,” Harlan said. “Everyone had great respect for his ability as a writer, and certainly if you wanted a quick point in history, there was not a better source than Lee.
“Many times he and I would sit and talk about old, old times -- the Curly Lambeau era and when Vince Lombardi first came to Green Bay. I was always fascinated with the stories he had about those times.”
Indeed, Remmel’s memory of feats he witnessed and his recall of facts and figures became nearly as legendary as his career itself.
While at the Press-Gazette, he was the only sportswriter in Wisconsin to have covered the Packers throughout all of the team's coaching regimes to that point, beginning with Packers founder Lambeau. He witnessed his 100th Packers-Bears game on Nov. 12, 1995, in the 150th regular-season meeting of the arch enemies, and attended 125 contests between the rivals in his lifetime.
"He's a Packers icon," then-Packers quarterback Brett Favre said upon Remmel’s retirement following the 2007 season. "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. He's always had a great sense of humor, too."
Former NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue once said that “no one is more synonymous with the Packers than Lee Remmel.”
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