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12 unusual facts about Green Bay Packers


AllNight with Jason Smith

His producer, Ali Bronson, also dispelled rumors about her taking over the show, or the show hiring former Green Bay Packers, New York Jets and Minnesota Vikings quarterback Brett Favre.

American Folklore Theatre

Packer Fans from Outer Space (premiered 2002) is inspired by UFO sightings in Door County, Wisconsin in the spring of 1952 and the 1953 tie game between the Green Bay Packers and the Chicago Bears (two American football teams).

Caitlin Brunell

Her parents were seniors and successful athletes at the University of Washington at the time she was born, and her father went on to play for the Green Bay Packers, Jacksonville Jaguars, Washington Redskins, and the New Orleans Saints.

Charles Alvin Beckwith

He was drafted by the Green Bay Packers that same year but turned down their offer to serve in the Army.

Damien Nygaard

Despite this, Nygaard tried his hand at the American gridiron in 1974, as punter with the NFL's Green Bay Packers, more than fifteen years before a more successful conversion by Darren Bennett.

Hornung v. Commissioner

The 1961 National Football League Championship was played on Sunday, December 31, 1961 in Green Bay, Wisconsin between the Green Bay Packers and the New York Giants.

Hust Stockton

During a Thanksgiving Day game in 1926, a pass from Stockton to Two-Bits Homan netted the Yellow Jackets a 20-14 victory over the Green Bay Packers.

Jay Kordich

After three years in the United States Navy, he won a football scholarship to the University of Southern California and in 1949 was drafted by the Green Bay Packers.

Lyle Lahey

His editorial cartoons on local, regional and national politics, the Green Bay Packers, world events, and much more appeared in the Brown County Chronicle and after 1976, its daily successor, The Green Bay News-Chronicle, from 1968 through 2005.

ManCrunch

The ad featured a male Packers fan and a male Vikings fan reaching into the same bowl of chips at the same time, and after a brief pause, passionately kissing and dry humping each other, much to the surprise of the other man present.

Nate Hinze

Besides playing sports he also likes to watch them with his favorite teams being the Green Bay Packers, Milwaukee Brewers and Badgers.

William Norman Grigg

The band's 2001 CD, Green and Gold, featured rock, country, and jazz homages to the Green Bay Packers, such as the novelty song "Tailgate Polka".


Altoona, Wisconsin

Fred "Fuzzy" Thurston, who played left guard for the Green Bay Packers in the 1960s, and for whom the Altoona High School football field is named

Bob Valesente

He was the head coach of the Kansas Jayhawks football team from 1986 to 1987 and has also served as an assistant football coach in the National Football League with the Baltimore Colts (secondary and special teams, 1982–1983), Pittsburgh Steelers (linebackers coach, 1990–1991), Green Bay Packers (linebackers coach, 1992–1994; defensive backs, 1995–1998), and Carolina Panthers (defensive backs, 1999).

Bryan Austin

In the late 1980s, he founded a band called Texas Flat, whose membership occasionally included Brett Favre, who would later become a quarterback for the Green Bay Packers.

Byron Bailey

The following year, Bailey was traded to the then last place Green Bay Packers, where he finished the 1953 season with 29 yards on 13 rushing attempts, and 8 pass receptions for 119 yards.

Championship belt

Originally used by Rodgers during his time on the Green Bay Packers practice squad as a way to keep his teammates loose, it became known more as Rodgers' touchdown celebration as the Packers 2010 season progressed, eventually culminating with a victory in Super Bowl XLV.

Chester Marcol

Czesław Boleslaw "Chester" Marcol (born October 24, 1949 in Opole, Poland) was the placekicker for the Green Bay Packers from 1972 to 1980.

Chris Conte

On December 29, 2013, in the final game of the Bears regular season against the Green Bay Packers with a playoff berth on the line, Conte did not get a pre-snap defensive "check" out of zone coverage and into a blitz with man coverage which allowed a wide receiver Randall Cobb to score the go-ahead and eventual winning touchdown.

Chuck Mercein

Charles 'Chuck' Mercein (born April 9, 1943 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is a former professional American football running back in the National Football League for six seasons for the New York Giants, Green Bay Packers, Washington Redskins and New York Jets.

Constructive receipt

Paul Hornung, a football player for the Green Bay Packers, won a Corvette as a prize on December 31, 1961, for his performance in the 1961 NFL Championship Game.

Dead air

One significant case of dead air during a Super Bowl was during Super Bowl XLV in 2011, when WCHK-FM, a station in the Green Bay, Wisconsin area, announced it would counterprogram the game with dead air, since the hometown Packers were in the game.

Depew, New York

Don Majkowski, former Green Bay Packers quarterback, was born and raised in Depew and attended Depew High School.

Ed Sabol

Its first major contract was to film the 1962 NFL Championship Game between the New York Giants and the Green Bay Packers at Yankee Stadium in New York.

Gabe Wilkins

Gabriel Nicholas Wilkins (born January 9, 1971 in Cowpens, South Carolina) is a former American Football defensive end who played for the Green Bay Packers and the San Francisco 49ers in a six-year career that lasted from 1994 to 1999 in the National Football League.

Garney Henley

Henley was drafted in 1960 by the NFL's Green Bay Packers in the 15th round (173rd overall), but chose to head to Canada, and the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.

Gerry Sandusky

Sandusky is the son of John Sandusky, who played in the NFL for the Cleveland Browns and Green Bay Packers, and who later was an assistant coach for several NFL teams, and head coach for the Baltimore Colts.

Highland Regional High School

Mike Daniels (born 1989; Class of 2007), fourth-round draft pick of the Green Bay Packers in the 2012 NFL Draft.

Ike Jones

After graduating from UCLA, Jones was drafted in the 25th round by the Green Bay Packers in the 1953 NFL Draft.

Jeff Dellenbach

Jeffrey Alan Dellenbach (born February 14, 1963 in Wausau, Wisconsin) is a former American football center in the National Football League for the Miami Dolphins, New England Patriots, Green Bay Packers, and the Philadelphia Eagles.

Mel Becket

Following college, Becket was drafted in the 8th round of the 1952 NFL Draft by the Green Bay Packers.

Mountain Brook, Alabama

Mountain Brook is the hometown of actors Wayne Rogers, Kate Jackson, and Courteney Cox, and former Green Bay Packers quarterback Bart Starr, and Natalee Holloway, a high school graduate who disappeared while on a graduation trip to Aruba on May 30, 2005, in a well-publicized missing persons case.

Oran Pape

Following college, he played in the National Football League for the Green Bay Packers, the Minneapolis Red Jackets, the Providence Steam Roller, the Boston Braves, and the Staten Island Stapletons, it was with the Packers, that he was a member of their 1930 NFL Championship team, he left the NFL in 1934, and returned to Iowa, where he attended the State Police Academy At Camp Dodge.

Pistol offense

The pistol has also made the transition to the NFL, mainly being used by the Carolina Panthers with Cam Newton and Robert Griffin III of the Washington Redskins, as well as the aforementioned Kaepnernick with the San Francisco 49ers, who in the NFL Playoffs versus the Green Bay Packers set the all-time single game rushing record for a quarterback with 181 yards.

Player-coach

During the 1920s, legendary player-coaches in the NFL include Curly Lambeau (who played for the Green Bay Packers from 1919-1929, and served as their head coach from 1919-1949) and George Halas who held similar roles for the Chicago Bears, a team for which he was also part-owner and business manager.

Rob Jeter

His father, Bob Jeter, is a member of the Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame and his brother, Carlton Jeter, played basketball alongside him at UW–Platteville.

Robbie Reiser

According to an interview, Reiser is a devoted fan of former Green Bay Packers head coach Vince Lombardi and likes to run his race team with the same winning attitude Lombardi had with the Packers.

Scott Galbraith

Alan Scott Galbraith (born January 7, 1967 in Sacramento, California) is a former professional American football tight end in the National Football League for nine seasons for the Cleveland Browns, Dallas Cowboys, Washington Redskins, and Green Bay Packers.

Simpsonville, South Carolina

Jamon Meredith, Offensive Tackle and 2009 5th Round Draft Pick of the Green Bay Packers

Third quarterback rule

In the 2010 NFC Championship Game between the Green Bay Packers and Chicago Bears, the rule was triggered with 57 seconds left in the third quarter.

Tootie Robbins

James Elbert "Tootie" Robbins (born June 2, 1958 in Windsor, North Carolina) was an offensive tackle who played 12 seasons in the National Football League for the St. Louis/Phoenix Cardinals and the Green Bay Packers.

Vic Rowen

Rowen has had two of his assistant coaches go on to lead teams as head coach in Super Bowls: Andy Reid with the Philadelphia Eagles and Mike Holmgren with both the Green Bay Packers and the Seattle Seahawks.

Walt Schlinkman

In 1945, the Green Bay Packers used the 11th pick in the 1st round of the 1945 NFL Draft to sign Schlinkman out of Texas Technological College (now Texas Tech University).

WOMT

The station is the Lakeshore area's home of Brewers, Bucks, Marquette Golden Eagles, Wisconsin Badgers and Packers play-by-play, and also airs the NFL on Dial Global; however the station only carries team play-by-play, forgoing the postgame shows of each radio network.

WTJK

Recent shows added to the WTJK lineup include Tuesdays With Aaron, a comprehensive interview with Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers, Inside Huskies Football, featuring Northern Illinois Huskies football coach Dave Doeren, The Badger Hour, a one-hour show devoted to Wisconsin Badgers football, and The Lance Leipold Show, featuring Wisconsin-Whitewater Warhawks football coach Lance Leipold.