Lee Remmel
Historian, Person
1924 –
Who is Lee Remmel?
Leland Remmel aka "Lee" 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.
Remmel was born in Shawano, Wisconsin, a small city about 30 miles 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. 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 1974 as the teams public relations director and spokesman. In February 2004, Remmel was named the first historian for the Green Bay Packers, a role he served until his retirement in December 2007 at age 83. 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.
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- Born
- Jun 30, 1924
Shawano - Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Lived in
- Wisconsin
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on July 23, 2013
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