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Classic Sports Card of The Day

19 Apr

61fleerjkramer

1961 Fleer football card of one of the top offensive linemen in NFL history, former Green Bay Packer guard Jerry Kramer. The signature play of his career came in the “Ice Bowl” NFL championship, when his block cleared the way for Bart Starr to score the winning touchdown. He was a five-time Pro Bowler, a member of all five Packer title teams of the Vince Lombardi era, and was named to the NFL All Decade team for the 1960s. Still, amazingly, he is not in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. In fact, Kramer was #1 on the list of top ten players not in Canton, according to NFL Network. He authored a number of books about his life in the NFL, including Instant Replay, Farewell to Football (written after his retirement), and Distant Replay, which updated the whereabouts of the players on the Packers’ Super Bowl I winning team.

 

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