Lee Remmel

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name = Lee Remmel

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birth_place = Shawano, Wisconsin, U.S.
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occupation = Sportswriter
Green Bay Packers Public Relations director/historian
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Lee Remmel (born June 30 1924) is a retired public relations/historian/spokesman and sportswriter. He is known for working 62 years with the Green Bay Packers as a sportswriter and later a team employee. [cite web | title=Packers.com - History - Ask Lee Remmel | work=Packers.com | url = http://www.packers.com/history/ask_lee_remmel/ | accessdate=May 6 | accessyear=2008]

Remmel was born in Shawano, Wisconsin, a small town about convert|30|mi|km outside of Green Bay, Wisconsin. He began writing as a freshman at Shawano high school and went to his first Packers game on September 24 1944. [cite web | title=Remmel's run with Packers draws to a close; with photo gallery | work=Green Bay Press-Gazette | url = http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071212/GPG0101/712120716/1989 | accessdate=May 7 | accessyear=2008] On October 7 1945, Remmel started covering the Green Bay Packers as a sportswriter for the "Green Bay Press Gazette". He was the only sportswriter who had covered all of the Packers coaches from the team's first coach Curly Lambeau to Bart Starr. He was hired to work in the Packers front office in 1974cite web | title=Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame - Lee Remmel | work=PackersHallofFame.org | url = http://www.packershalloffame.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=150&Itemid=58 | accessdate=May 4 | accessyear=2008] as the teams public relations director and spokesman.cite web | title=Lee Remmel to Retire from Packers | work=WGBA | url = http://www.nbc26.com/sports/local/12437051.html | accessdate=May 6 | accessyear=2008] In February 2004, Remmel was named the first historian for the Green Bay Packers, [cite web | title=Lee Remmel, Green Bay Packers Team Historian, To Retire After 62-Year Association With Franchise | work=Packers.com | url = http://www.packers.com/news/releases/2007/12/12/1/ | accessdate=May 6 | accessyear=2008] a role he served until his retirement in December 2007 at age 83. [cite web | title=Remmel's career one for the ages | work=Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | url = http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=696261 | accessdate=May 6 | accessyear=2008] He remained on the board of directors for the Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame.

Remmel covered the first forty Super Bowls. He represented the Press Gazette at the first eight, 22 as NFL auxiliary media relations staff, two years for the Green Bay Packers, and another eight with the NFL. He was one of twelve people honored by the NFL for their association with the first forty Super Bowls. Remmel has served on NFL committees on statistics and NFL Films, and participated in the NFL public relations directors' Professional Football Writers of America liaison.

Remmel is known for his in-depth knowledge of Packer's history, especially about the team's rivalry with the Chicago Bears. Former Packers quarterback Brett Favre described Remmel, "He’s a Packers icon. There will never be another like him. His knowledge of the team and its history has always been impressive. He is sharp as a tack when it came to those things – truly impressive."

Awards

Remmel was named Wisconsin's Sports Writer of the year in 1967. Remmel was inducted in the Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame on March 30 1996. To honor his induction into the Packers Hall of Fame, the team built a new press box in August 2003, and they named it "The Lee Remmel Press Box". Each April, the "Lee Remmel Sports Awards Banquet" honors high school to professional athletes; the banquet has raised over $150,000 for Green Bay area colleges and high schools. [cite web | title=Lee Remmel Banquet Goes on Without Remmel | work=WBAY | url = http://www.wbay.com/Global/story.asp?S=8151128&nav=menu24_4_7 | accessdate=May 7 | accessyear=2008]

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NAME = Remmel, Lee
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SHORT DESCRIPTION = Sportswriter, Green Bay Packers historian
DATE OF BIRTH = 1924-06-30
PLACE OF BIRTH = Shawano, Wisconsin, United States
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