![]() Scott was inducted into the Packers Hall of Fame in 2001. The same held true for anyone who lived in Green Bay for Packer games at City Stadium/Lambeau Field. So unless I was able to attend a game in person at Milwaukee County Stadium (which I did on a few occasions), I listened to the rest the Packer games in Milwaukee on the radio. ![]() The flagship station for the Packers then and now was WTMJ in Milwaukee.īack then, all local games were blacked out on television (even if they were sold out). But if you listened to the games on the radio, you listened to Moore on the Packers radio network. The team also won an unprecedented three NFL championships in a row, a feat that has never been duplicated in the playoff era of the NFL going back to 1933.īack in those days, if you watched the Packers on television, you heard and saw Ray Scott do the games on CBS. It was the golden age for Packer Nation, as Lombardi’s Packers won five NFL titles in seven years, including the first two Super Bowls. ![]() I’m talking about the former radio announcer of the Packers in the Vince Lombardi era, Ted Moore. This story is about a man who definitely needs to be inducted into another Hall of Fame…the Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame. At the very least, the careers of these players need to be brought into the discussion about being enshrined in Canton.īut that’s another story. Players like Bobby Dillon, Boyd Dowler, Ron Kramer, Fuzzy Thurston, Gale Gillingham, LeRoy Butler and Sterling Sharpe. I feel the same way about other former Packers. That goes back to my days at Packer Report. Anyone who is familiar with my writing over the past 16 years covering the Green Bay Packers knows that I was a huge proponent for the rightful induction of Jerry Kramer into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
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