GREEN BAY, Wis. (WSAU) One of the men associated with the Green Bay Packers since the Curly Lambeau era, died Thursday. Lee Remmel was 90 years old.
Remmel was a member of the Packers’ front office beginning in 1974. The Packers’ say he led the organization’s public relations and publicity efforts until 2004, when he became the Packers’ team historian, an honor bestowed upon him by then-Packers CEO Bob Harlan. Prior to joining the team’s front office, Remmel was a sportswriter and columnist for the Green Bay Press-Gazette for nearly 30 years, covering his first Packers game in 1945 in Milwaukee.
Lee Remmel retired on Dec. 31, 2007, Remmel celebrating a 62-year relationship with a franchise.
Harlan told Packers.com, “He had a tremendous love for the organization, a tremendous love. 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.”
While at the Press-Gazette, Remmel 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, and attended 125 contests between the rivals in his lifetime.
