WSSP decided to try something unique. Let's send a reporter full time to cover the team, just like sport writers do. Only we'll be able to update listeners live on the air whenever something new develops with the team that is passion of Wisconsin sports fans, the Green Bay Packers.
This is my third season covering the Pack for WSSP. We cover every practice, every meeting, every press conference, every game. We follow the team to the NFL Scouting Combine as they shape the future of the franchise. We go to NFL meetings. We catch up with players in the offseason and have them as guests live on the air.
I have faint but fond memories of the last few years of the Lombardi era, and vividly remember watching Bart Starr dive over the south end zone on New Year's Eve to win the "Ice Bowl". I played 8 years of football from Pop Warner to the high school varsity team, but never grew above 5-11, and couldn't break 4.9 in the 40. Then, as Bart's turbulent run as the Packers head coach was winding down, I'd just began my broadcasting career in Milwaukee working for a news department at a local TV station. My assignment was to be a sideline cameraman as Lynn Dickey and the Packers opened the season at home against the Rams. One NFL game on the sidelines at the age of 20, and I got "the bug". I've been covering Packers games ever since.
Bob Harlan and I have something in common. We've both never paid to see a Green Bay Packers game. Only he snuck in under the fence at County Stadium during the Lombardi years. I was working the games with a press pass when Forrest Gregg was the coach. Harlan is the team CEO. I'm not. Yet.
Listen for my reports weekday mornings on The Doug Russell Show, afternoons with Gary & Cliff, and breaking sports news as it happens, on the station committed to 24/7 Packers news, Milwaukee's Sportsradio 1250 WSSP.
