Lee Remmel, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Sportswriter, Green Bay Packers Public Relations Executive, Historian
Date of Birth: 30-Jun-1924
Place of Birth: Shawano, Wisconsin, United States
Date of Death: 16-Apr-2015
Profession: historian
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About Lee Remmel
- Leland "Lee" Remmel (June 30, 1924 – April 16, 2015) was a public relations/historian/spokesman and sportswriter.
- He was 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 (48 km) outside 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.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."
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