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http://www.packersnews.com/sto...asses-away/25895643/
Lee Remmel, a former Press-Gazette reporter whose 62-year relationship with the Green Bay Packers is considered the longest association with the franchise, passed away on Thursday. He was 90.
Remmel's relationship with the Packers began when he was growing up in Shawano in the 1930s, when he would follow the team's achievements, listening to games on the radio whenever possible. While in high school, Remmel edited a weekly newspaper in Shawano, then joined the Press-Gazette in 1945.
He asked the newspaper's sports editor, Ray Pagel, if he could help cover a Packers' game at Milwaukee's State Fair Park against the Detroit Lions if he agreed to pay his own way. Given permission, Remmel became a fixture at every Packers game, home and away, as a reporter. He covered the team's mostly dismal decade of the 1950s, and the highly successful decade of the 1960s.
Remmel covered Packers games on the sideline until 1959 when Lombardi told him to move to the press box.
...In 1967, Remmel was voted Wisconsin Sportswriter of the Year by his peers.
...He covered the first two Super Bowls, both won by the Packers, and attended every succeeding Super Bowl until 2007. He attended 122 consecutive Packers-Bears games.
Remmel left the Press-Gazette in 1974 to become director of public relations under general manager and coach Dan Devine. He continued in similar positions under coaches Bart Starr, Forrest Gregg, Lindy Infante, Mike Holmgren, Ray Rhodes, and Mike Sherman. He was named team historian in 2004.
Remmel was known for his uncanny memory, able to cite game scores and details from every era of Packers history. He was inducted into the Packers Hall of Fame in 1996.
Remmel lent his name to a sports awards banquet that began in the 1990s, raising scholarship funds for the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay and St. Norbert College. Perhaps one his greatest honors occurred in 2003 when the Packers named the newly remodeled press box at Lambeau Field in his name...
Very nice tribute from the Packers, here:
