The man is up for induction into the Hall of Fame and BMG has a nice piece on him:
http://www.jsonline.com/sports...816z1-290163411.html
Lots of it stuff we already know but I know that I always thought he was the one who gave Sherman the GM duties on in addition to head coaching duties and he denies it.
Happy Reading!
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Boy, one thing that article made me think about was how perversely lucky we out-of-staters were in the pre-Internet days of the 70's and 80's. We just got to see the box scores and the occasional TV broadcast of the Dark Ages. Not the day-to-day aspects of the team. What a ****ing clownshow the Packers had become.
I've said it before, but God bless Bob Harlan. He saved the Packers.
As much as I like Wolf, I don't know how many guys of his type have made the Hall Of Fame. It seems like the Hall is filled with Players, Coaches, and Owners, but not too many pure personnel guys. I wouldn't necessarily have a problem with him getting in, but in some cases he wasn't necessarily the only guy calling the shots.
The HoF created a new "contributor" category this year precisely for that reason. Wolf and Bill Polian are the first two candidates in this category. Only other pure personnel guy in the Hall already is Jim Finks.
Great read chickenboy and thank you. Man every so often I think back to the pre Wolf days and boy that team was just a hot mess. Just the thought of 15,000 season ticket holders not even bothering to go to the game tells you just how fed up fans were back then. Even when we lose games like Seattle I have to remind myself that at one point in my life I couldn't even have fathomed the idea of the Packers in a big game like that.
Not sure if Wolf will get in the HOF but he sure deserves it IMHO.
It's not just what Wolf did in Green Bay, he also did very well in Tampa, New York (Jets) & of course Oakland.
Wolf deserves to be inducted into the Hall of Fame
quote:New York (Jets)
"If you don't have five you can't play."
@BobMcGinn: Ex-#Packers GM Ron Wolf was voted into Pro Football HOF Saturday, source close to selection process tells Journal Sentinel.
EDIT:
Confirmation here, from PFHoF voter John McClain:
@McClain_on_NFL: Congrats to former GM Ron Wolf for making Hall of Fame.
Wilde does a very good job here profiling the Wolf hire:
@JimTrotter_NFL: Congrats PFHOF Class of 2015: Junior Seau, Charles Haley, Tim Brown, Jerome Bettis, Will Shields, Bill Polian, Ron Wolf, Mick Tinglehoff.
@jasonjwilde: Per @daringantt, a @ProFootballHoF selector, Kevin Greene, Kurt Warner, Orlando Pace, Marvin Harrison and Tony Dungy reached final 10.
Nobody deserves it more than Ron Wolf. Creating a new category wasn't even necessary, IMHO.
We love him because of what he did for/with the Packers, but his accomplishments prior to his time in Green Bay were no less impressive.
I must specifically acknowledge his hiring of Holmgren; look at the coaching tree that was created with that move (!), the trade for TOG; he guessed on the pitch but knocked it out of the park, and laying the foundation for continued success by organizing the operations of the team under the (then) new salary cap rules.
Well done, Mr. Wolf!
Great day to be a Packer fan, ...
If only McCarthy had thought to motivate his team with such dank may-mays.
Will Wolf go in wearing a Packers helmet?
Nicely done.
@PeteDougherty: Didn't get this in report last nite but Ron Wolf said son Eliot will present him at HOF ceremony. Eliot Wolf is GB's Dir. Player Personnel.
El-i-ot.
If only McCarthy had thought to motivate his team with such dank may-mays.
Now that Bart is in tough shape, Favre needs a new shield when he walks onto the field at Lambeau.
Enter: Ron Wolf
He'll hold the pussy's hand so the fans don't boo too much
satan for the win again
McGinn snagged a multi-hour interview with Ron Wolf last week before they went to Canton for the festivities. Great stuff.
Like this.
Fleecing Seattle?
On April 15, 2000, the Packers and Seahawks consummated a trade in which running back Ahman Green and a fifth-round pick went to Green Bay and cornerback Fred Vinson and a sixth-round pick went to Seattle. Holmgren was beginning his second year as coach-GM in Seattle. Ted Thompson was starting his fourth month as Holmgren's vice president of football operations. The Green trade, one of the five greatest in Packers' history, was possible only because the Seahawks made him available. Wolf said he negotiated the deal privately with Holmgren.
WOLF: "They (Holmgren and his coaches) always had this thing about a back fumbling. I never had a problem with that with Green. You're talking about the second-leading rusher in the history of Nebraska football, and they're letting him go because he fumbled the football. (Mike) Sherman's the coach here. It came down to two guys. One was the tight end from BYU (Itula Mili), or Green. I've always had this fascination with tight ends that could run. Like Keith Jackson, like the guy from Maryland (Vernon Davis), Tony Gonzalez. I thought (Mili) could do that but he was hurt. They really wanted Fred Vinson. They thought they were sticking it to me. I know that. Because I had canned that staff and they thought the best player we had drafted was Fred Vinson. I go to Sherman and said, 'Ahman Green, is he a bad guy?' He said, 'Absolutely not.' So I said, 'OK, we're going to trade for Ahman Green.' He said, 'OK.' That's how it happened. Now you have to know this. I had done another deal (previously) with Mike, and suddenly he couldn't do it because of cap ramifications. So he had to renege on that deal, and so I'm giving him a little jab about that. 'Do we got a (expletive) deal now or what? Can you check with your people?' He's the leading rusher in the history of this fabulous franchise. "
From the article.
"I had been contacted by Minnesota. Nothing, I didn't want anything to do with Minnesota"
Sorry Ted, I've got a new favorite GM.
That's too damn funny.
It's pretty admirable that he had such a connection with Green Bay that he wouldn't consider going to a division opponent.
@adbrandt was Wolf serious or sarcastic with his congrats on to Goodell on the Brady thing?
— Eric Paulson (@epaulson89) August 7, 2015<
I asked. He just smiled. Still not sure. So Ron. https://t.co/yWf1aiP1D1
— Andrew Brandt (@adbrandt) August 7, 2015
Nothing on Reggie White. That was odd.
From the article.
"I had been contacted by Minnesota. Nothing, I didn't want anything to do with Minnesota"
Sorry Ted, I've got a new favorite GM.
I highly doubt Ted would go to purple either
This is Ted's last full-time job. (I could see him doing part time scouting for the Pack after he leaves the GM post.)
Might be Mike's, too.
Both have said that they wanted this to be their last ever job, good bad or otherwise. I think they're right.
TT might do some scouting, maybe MM does some independent QB consulting, but I think both will have the leisure to be able to end their careers on their terms.
