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Jerry Kramer
Date of birth: January 23, 1936 (1936-01-23) (age 72)
Place of birth: Flag of the United States Jordan, Montana
Career information
Position(s): Guard
Kicker
College: University of Idaho
NFL Draft: 1958 / Round: 4/ Pick 39
Organizations
 As player:
1958-1968 Green Bay Packers
Career highlights and Awards
Pro Bowls: 3
Honors: NFL 1960s All-Decade Team
Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame
Stats at DatabaseFootball.com

Gerald Louis "Jerry" Kramer (born January 23, 1936, in Jordan, Montana) is a former professional football player, author and sports commentator, best remembered for his 11-year NFL career with the Green Bay Packers as an offensive lineman. Events 393 - Roman Emperor Theodosius I proclaims his nine year old son Honorius co-emperor Year 1936 ( MCMXXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Jordan is a town in and the County seat of Garfield County, Montana, United States. In American football, each team has 11 players on the field at one time In American and Canadian football, a guard ( G) is a player that lines up between the center and the tackles on the offensive line Placekicker, or simply kicker ( PK or K) is the title of the player in American and Canadian football who is responsible for the This is a List of Athletic Conferences of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA and National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA The University of Idaho is Idaho 's oldest public university located in the rural city of Moscow in Latah County. The NFL Draft is an annual Sports draft in which NFL teams select newly-eligible players for their rosters The 1958 National Football League Draft was held on December 2 1957 (rounds 1-4 and January 28 1958 (rounds 5-30 The Green Bay Packers are a professional American football team based in Green Bay Wisconsin. In professional American football, the Pro Bowl is the All-star game of the National Football League (NFL The NFL 1960s All-Decade Team is a list of all NFL players who have had outstanding performances throughout the 1960s and have been compiled in a fantasy group The Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame was the first Hall of fame built to honor a single professional American football team. Events 393 - Roman Emperor Theodosius I proclaims his nine year old son Honorius co-emperor Year 1936 ( MCMXXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Jordan is a town in and the County seat of Garfield County, Montana, United States. American football, known in the United States and Canada simply as football, is a competitive Team sport known for mixing strategy with The National Football League ( NFL) is the largest professional American football league. The Green Bay Packers are a professional American football team based in Green Bay Wisconsin. As a 6'3", 250 lb. right guard, #64 was an integral part of the famous "Packer Sweep", a signature play in which both guards rapidly pull out from their normal positions and lead-block for the running back going around the end. In American and Canadian football, a guard ( G) is a player that lines up between the center and the tackles on the offensive line A Sweep is a running play in American Football where the Running back takes a pitch or handoff from the Quarterback and starts running parallel to the Kramer was an All-Pro five times, and a member of the NFL's 50th anniversary team in 1969, but surprisingly, even after appearing on the list of finalists ten times since becoming eligible, has not been inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Athletics Marathon August 16 &mdash Enschede Marathon, Netherlands Men's Winner The Pro Football Hall of Fame is the Hall of fame of the National Football League (NFL He was inducted into the Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame in 1975. The Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame was the first Hall of fame built to honor a single professional American football team. Athletics For an extensive coverage see 1975 in athletics (track and field Marathon August [1]

Contents

Early Years

Born in eastern Montana, Jerry Kramer moved with his family from northern Utah to northern Idaho when he was in the fourth grade, settling in Sandpoint. Montana ( is a state in the Western United States. One-third of the state in the western part contains numerous mountain ranges (approximately 77 named of the northern The State of Utah (ˈjuːtɔː or) is a western state of the United States. The State of Idaho ( is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States of America. Sandpoint is a city in and the County seat of Bonner County, Idaho, United States. After graduating from Sandpoint High School in 1954, he accepted a football scholarship to the University of Idaho to play for new coach Skip Stahley. Sandpoint High School is a High school in Sandpoint Idaho, United States. Year 1954 ( MCMLIV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1954 Gregorian calendar) The University of Idaho is Idaho 's oldest public university located in the rural city of Moscow in Latah County. J Neil "Skip" Stahley (September 22 1908 &ndash July 20 1992 was a College football coach and Athletic director. In that era, Idaho was a member of the Pacific Coast Conference, the forerunner of the Pac-10. The Pacific Coast Conference ( PCC) was a College athletic conference in the United States which existed from 1915 to 1959 The Pacific-10 Conference ( Pac-10) is a college athletic conference which operates in the western United States.

Kramer was a standout player for the Vandals, along with teammate (and roommate) Wayne Walker of Boise, a future All-Pro linebacker with the Detroit Lions. Wayne Harrison Walker (born September 30, 1936 in Boise Idaho) is a former professional American football player and sports Boise (ˈbɔɪsi is the capital and most populous city of the U The Detroit Lions are an American football team based in Detroit Michigan. Both were drafted in the fourth round of the 1958 NFL Draft. The 1958 National Football League Draft was held on December 2 1957 (rounds 1-4 and January 28 1958 (rounds 5-30 Being the first two Idaho Vandals ever selected in an NFL Draft, behind Carl Kiilsgaard, who was drafted in 1950[1]. Both Walker (#57) and Kramer (#64) would have their numbers retired by the university. Both also played in the East-West Shrine Game and the College All-Star Game that summer, in which they defeated the defending NFL champion Detroit Lions. The East-West Shrine Game is an annual post-season College football all-star game played each January since 1925 The Chicago Charities College All-Star Game was a Preseason American football game played annually (except in 1974 from 1934 to 1976 between the National Football The Detroit Lions are an American football team based in Detroit Michigan.

NFL career

Kramer was the 39th player selected in the 1958 NFL Draft, taken in the fourth round by the Green Bay Packers. The 1958 National Football League Draft was held on December 2 1957 (rounds 1-4 and January 28 1958 (rounds 5-30 The Green Bay Packers are a professional American football team based in Green Bay Wisconsin. The first four rounds of the draft were held on December 2, 1957. Year 1957 ( MCMLVII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1957 Gregorian calendar) Two Hall-of-Famers for the Packers were taken in this draft: fullback Jim Taylor of LSU, in the second round (15th overall), and linebacker Ray Nitschke of Illinois in the third round (36th overall). The Pro Football Hall of Fame is the Hall of fame of the National Football League (NFL The Green Bay Packers are a professional American football team based in Green Bay Wisconsin. Jim or Jimmy Taylor may refer to Jim Taylor (American football (born 1935 American football player Jim Taylor (explorer Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, generally known as Louisiana State University or LSU, is a public, Coeducational Raymond Ernest "Ray" Nitschke ( December 29, 1936 – March 8, 1998) was a professional football player who played middle This article is about the flagship campus For other uses and locations of University of Illinois, see University of Illinois (disambiguation The University of Kramer played every game in his rookie season of 1958, but the Packers finished with the worst record (1-10-1) in the 12-team league. The 1958 NFL season was the 39th Regular season of the National Football League. In January 1959, the Packers hired a new head coach, Vince Lombardi, the offensive coach of the New York Giants (the current title of 'offensive coordinator' was not created until years later). The 1959 NFL season was the 40th Regular season of the National Football League. Vincent Thomas Lombardi ( June 11, 1913 &ndash September 3, 1970) was an American football coach An offensive coordinator typically refers to the coach on a American football team who is in charge of the offense. The New York Giants are a professional American football team based in the New York City suburb of East Rutherford New Jersey. An offensive coordinator typically refers to the coach on a American football team who is in charge of the offense. Lombardi's playing position in college was the same as Kramer's, never an easy situation for any player, but especially challenging when the coach was as disciplined and demanding of perfection as Lombardi.

With Kramer playing solidly at right guard, the Packers would win five NFL titles and the first two Super Bowls. In American and Canadian football, a guard ( G) is a player that lines up between the center and the tackles on the offensive line professional American football, the Super Bowl is the Championship game of the National Football League (NFL Kramer also served as the team's place kicker in 1962, 1963, and part of 1968. Placekicker, or simply kicker ( PK or K) is the title of the player in American and Canadian football who is responsible for the The 1962 NFL season was the 43rd Regular season of the National Football League. The 1963 NFL season was the 44th Regular season of the National Football League. The 1968 NFL season was the 49th Regular season of the National Football League. As a kicker, he kicked 29 field goals, 90 extra points, for a total of 177 points. He also kicked 3 field goals and 1 extra point in the Packers 16-7 victory over the New York Giants in the 1962 NFL title game. The New York Giants are a professional American football team based in the New York City suburb of East Rutherford New Jersey. The 1962 NFL season was the 43rd Regular season of the National Football League. In college, he was also a kicker, with Wayne Walker as his long snapper. Wayne Harrison Walker (born September 30, 1936 in Boise Idaho) is a former professional American football player and sports Walker was also a placekicker for the Detroit Lions midway through his career. The Detroit Lions are an American football team based in Detroit Michigan.

During his career, Kramer was often injured. Among these were surgery to remove sizable wood fragments embedded in his abdomen from a teenage accident, and a badly injured ankle suffered in 1961. The 1961 NFL season was the 42nd Regular season of the National Football League. In all, Kramer played in 129 regular season games; he also had 22 surgeries in 11 seasons, including a colostomy, which he described as a "nightmare most people don't know of yet. A colostomy is a surgical procedure that involves connecting a part of the colon onto the Anterior abdominal wall, leaving the patient with an opening on the " Despite these setbacks, Kramer was selected as an All-Pro five times (1960, 1962, 1963, 1966, and 1967). The 1960 NFL season was the 41st Regular season of the National Football League. The 1962 NFL season was the 43rd Regular season of the National Football League. The 1963 NFL season was the 44th Regular season of the National Football League. The 1966 NFL season was the 47th Regular season of the National Football League, and the season after which was played Super Bowl I, though it was The 1967 NFL season was the 48th Regular season of the National Football League.

Author

In his penultimate season of 1967, Kramer collaborated with Dick Schaap on his best-selling first book, Instant Replay, a diary of the season which highlighted the heretofore obscure work of an offensive lineman. The 1967 NFL season was the 48th Regular season of the National Football League. Richard J Schaap ( September 27, 1931 &ndash December 21, 2001) was an American sportswriter It climaxed with Kramer's lead block in front of Bart Starr to win the legendary "Ice Bowl" championship game. Bryan Bartlett Starr (born January 9, 1934 in Montgomery Alabama) is a former professional American football player and coach The 1967 National Football League Championship Game between the Green Bay Packers and the Dallas Cowboys was the 35th championship game in NFL history Kramer and Schaap would write two more books together. Kramer played one more year, under new head coach Phil Bengston in 1968. For the coaching strategy game see NFL Head Coach. A head coach is a professional who is responsible for the overall actions of John Phillip Bengtson ( July 17, 1913 - December 18, 1994) was a college football player and longtime assistant coach best remembered The 1968 NFL season was the 49th Regular season of the National Football League. After that season, which saw the aging Packers fall to a losing record of 6-7-1, he published a sequel book, Farewell to Football. After retiring, Kramer briefly worked as a color commentator on CBS NFL telecasts. A color commentator, sometimes known as a color analyst, is a member of the Broadcasting team for a sporting event who assists the Play-by-play The NFL on CBS is the brand name of the CBS television network's coverage of the National Football League 's American Football Conference

In 1985, Kramer wrote Distant Replay, which updated the whereabouts of the members of the Packers' Super Bowl I championship team following a team reunion at Lambeau Field during the 1984 season. Artistic Gymnastics World Artistic Gymnastics Championships: Men's all-around champion Yuri Korolev, USSR The first AFL-NFL World Championship Game in professional American football, later to be known as Super Bowl I, was played on January 15, 1967 Lambeau Field is an outdoor football stadium in Green Bay Wisconsin, the home of the NFL 's Green Bay Packers. The 1984 NFL season was the 65th Regular season of the National Football League.

Jerry Kramer is now living in Eagle, near Boise in southwestern Idaho. Eagle is a city in Ada County, Idaho, United States. The population was 11085 at the 2000 census. Boise (ˈbɔɪsi is the capital and most populous city of the U The State of Idaho ( is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States of America. In October 2005, he released Inside the Locker Room a CD set that includes Vince Lombardi’s final locker room address as the head coach of the Green Bay Packers, immediately after Super Bowl II. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. A Compact Disc (also known as a CD) is an Optical disc used to store digital data, originally developed for storing digital audio Vincent Thomas Lombardi ( June 11, 1913 &ndash September 3, 1970) was an American football coach For the coaching strategy game see NFL Head Coach. A head coach is a professional who is responsible for the overall actions of The Green Bay Packers are a professional American football team based in Green Bay Wisconsin. The second AFL-NFL World Championship Game in professional American football, later to be known as Super Bowl II, was played on January 14, 1968 In September 2006, Kramer re-released his 1968 best seller, Instant Replay. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1968 ( MCMLXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. [2]

Kramer has 6 children and 4 grandchildren. His youngest sons Matt and Jordan also played college football at Idaho. College football is American football played by teams of student athletes fielded by American universities, Colleges and military academies The University of Idaho is Idaho 's oldest public university located in the rural city of Moscow in Latah County. Jordan, named in memory of Hall of Fame defensive tackle Henry Jordan, played several seasons in the NFL as a linebacker, initially with the Tennessee Titans in 2003, moving to the Atlanta Falcons in 2005. Henry Wendell Jordan ( January 26, 1935 - February 21, 1977) was a former American football Defensive tackle who played The Tennessee Titans are a professional American football team based in Nashville Tennessee. The 2003 season of the National Football League (NFL was the 84th one played by the major professional American football league in the United The Atlanta Falcons are an American football team based in Atlanta Georgia. The 2005 season of the National Football League (NFL was the 86th season played by the major professional American football league in the United States

References

  1. ^ 1950 NFL Draft on databaseFootball.com

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