Ron Wolf

I think Bert said the same thing.

I know I have said this before.  But when the Lombardi era ended and the losing started I thought, well, that was that for my lifetime.  Then along came Harlan, Wolf, Holmy, TT, & MM.  So I end up seeing not just one HOF QB (Starr), but there is a high probability that I will see two more get into the HOF in my lifetime.  That is a lot more than teams like Chicago can say.  So I am blessed. 

 

Ron - enjoy the day - you earned it.  And BTW - thank you. 

Ron Wolf appreciates football history. I can't even begin to imagine the sense of pride and accomplishment he felt in the hours after the Super Bowl in 1996. He must have worn a smile for weeks. A guy that appreciated the genius of Vince Lombardi resurrected Titletown. 

 

All the fans that died a little more every year after Vince left. He helped pay back that loyalty. 

 

Heres the thing I love about Wolf. He so fully understood what a third Lombardi meant to Packer fans. 

 

Thanks Ron. 

The HoF induction starts in a minute on NFL Network and ESPN. Ron Wolf is the first to be inducted, so switch that channel!

 

Plenty of time to switch over to Family Night afterwards

Ron Wolf ready to officially go into the @ProFootballHOF. #WolfHOF15 pic.twitter.com/rSe0Q09H9G

— Green Bay Packers (@packers) August 8, 2015

Spoke for a whopping 6 1/2 minutes! Good on him. Said what needed to be said. Thanks Ron!

"As my Dad would say, I like a good speaker - not one who's polished - but one whose through."

 

Ron Wolf's conclusion to his HOF speech.  Made me laugh. 

I loved his speech. No need to spend an hour up there. Great job!

Agreed. 

He was a soldier of Green Bay. Honor him. 

I saw NFL.com has a video for it, so I will check that out later.

 

AND THANKS RON!! 

To Charles Haley. Battled mental illness his entire career. Trusted his meds. Trusted his docs. Trusted his friends. That's powerful stuff. Good sttuff Charles. Stay strong man. 

I'm breaking form. To Fran for his intro to his everything Mick. It got misty here. We ask a lot of guys that guys that **** their lives up to bring us joy. 

Explains a lot. Good for him.

WTF is up with Jerome Bettis being allowed to ramble on about all manner of nonsense but Sydney Seau was given a 6 minute time limit to thank her dead father that had a career that put Bettis to shame. 

 

They made Sydney stand backstage and thank her dad. Didn't even give her the decency to thank her father on stage because they were terrified she might go CTE on them. 

 

The NFL and HOF are a tone deaf collective of ignorant ****s.

 

 

If you lived in wi prior to 92 and were 16 or younger it wasn't cool to be a fan of the Packers. Ron Wolf changed that.

Can't speak for anyone much younger or older.

Rong!!!   It's AWAYS COOL to be a PACKERS FAN!!!!  Die Hard here baby!!!!!

Never said he stopped being a fan. Just that it was tough being a fan. Mix in a decaf and lay off the caps. 

 

And thanks for the Christmas movie primer. 

Decaf sucks

"If you lived in wi prior to 92 and were 16 or younger it wasn't cool to be a fan of the Packers."

 

Cool is for children.

 

Sorry bro...I lived in Wisconsin until '95. I was a fan thru 70's, 80's, thru David Whitehurst, Randy Wright, John Hadl, Scott Hunter, Ferragamo, Dilweg. Maybe other people thought it "wasn't cool" to be a fan of the Packers. 'Irregardless' I stayed a fan. However, I admit....my fandom was wavering.

Lynn Dickey was fun. Majik tried to bring us back by himself but Ron Wolf truly did it. We can never thank him enough. Ron Wolf saved my fandom.

I assure you that this forum would not exist if it wasn't for Ron Wolf.  You think about that for a minute.

The organization tolerated and accepted losing during the dark days and that attitude filtered down to the fans. Wolf (and Harlan) changed the culture within the franchise and turned it all around. Congratulations to Ron Wolf on a well-deserved honor.

It occurred to me that TOG could use some coaching on his HOF speech.  Like how to shave about 30 minutes off of it.  Just sayin ...........

Wot did Harlan say in the car to Ron Wolf on their way to how fast can I hop a plane in Austrabel?

"the aristocrats"

I was living in Auburn, AL in 1989.  I remember buying some beer when I overheard two guys talking about Milwaukee's Best and how nobody in Milwaukee would drink that.  So I asked if they were from Wisconsin and they both said yes.  It was right after the upon further review bear game, so I said something like how about the Pack and the one guy says, "No idea, hopefully they haven't raped anyone lately."

 

Dark days indeed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yeah, way north now. 

We used to get tickets from a family whose kids would never go to Packers games, because the Packers were "losers". In 1996 they started fighting over the tickets.

 

BTW, Ron Wolf ruined the Packers for Dilweed. He is definitely supporting the right team now.

1986 Thanksgiving Walter Stanley game, "(Max McGee) He is gone!" - I was 14, one of my best memories watching the Pack with my Grandpa. It did not matter if the Pack was 2-14, 4-12, 12-4, - it didn't and does not matter. Those lean years and still watching and bleeding green and gold makes the modern era team that much more appreciated.

Need some pics of posters in Brian Noble or Jim Zorn jerseys.

I know your last couple of posts are suffering from lack of context.  

That's always the case.

I loved listening to the story Wolf told about his early days and how he ended up in GB.  He may have been a personnel guy but he understood business and in the "dark days" the Paxkers were an absolute mess.  It's really amazing how far they've come since Lindy Infante - and I remember those seasons growing up as a kid in WI

RORWT

Wolf was great, one of the best in Packers history to run personnel decisions. 

 

Top 3 for sure. Would be a tough choice between Ron, Ted, and Jack. 

 

#we are blessed

 

 

 

 

Highlight of the year, that Walter Stanley game. In those days, we had to focus on those one or two miracle type games each season, and that was one of them.

We used to get tickets from a family whose kids would never go to Packers games, because the Packers were "losers". In 1996 they started fighting over the tickets.

That attitude is pretty much what got me my season tickets - nobody else in the family was interested in them at all circa 1988.  I said "why not?", back then 2 season tickets cost all of $300.

My first NFL GBP memories start about 1972, 7 y/o, and have bled green and gold and always believed in them no matter what the odds ever since - the reward coming in the mid 90s.  Never thought about not watching them or not being a fan, they're my team, good or bad, do or die.

I know the Pack shortly thereafter had the one good team under Devine (MacArthur Lane and John Brockington team), but for me the nail in the coffin that things may not ever again be like the Lombardi years was the opening day 40-0 loss to the Lions.  In that game, Greg Landry, their QB, had a TD run of something like 80 yards.

 

It was a complete debacle and to make matters worse, it kicked off the season.

It was a QB sneak, no less, but Landry didn't score. Just over 100 yards total offense for the Packers in that one and I remember it (too) well. 

Thanks, MichiganJoe,

 

I just looked it up.  Landry had one carry for 76 yards.  Munson played so Landry must have been put in after the game was well decided.

 

I see that the season ended with a 20-0 loss to the Lions.

Highlights?  if it wasn't Lofton, the highlights of games back then were listening for Harlan Huckleby's name in "singing packer highlights" the morning after.  Somebody needs to unearth a recording of one of those.