Long a student of football history, Wolf associated the Packers' pants with the maize of the University of Michigan. He didn't like that color.
Wolf wasn't enamored of the stripes on the Packers' helmets, jerseys or pants, either. He wanted a less cluttered look.
He pored over various shades of gold before selecting what Harlan remembered as a
metallic gold for the pants.
"Ron was very excited about it," said Harlan. "He just thought the
Notre Dame gold or
the UCLA gold, whatever you wanted to call it, would be perfect."
The jersey that Wolf really liked had been worn by the Packers in the early 1950s.
"That
gold (numbers) and green (body) one," he said. "But they wouldn't work today because you couldn't see the numbers."
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