Jerry Kramer
Jerry Kramer was born in Jordan, Montana, United States on January 23rd, 1936 and is the Football Player. At the age of 88, Jerry Kramer biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Gerald Louis Kramer (born January 23, 1936) is a former professional footballer, author, and sports commentator best known for his 11-year National Football League (NFL) career with the Green Bay Packers as an offensive lineman. Kramer, a 6 foot (3.91 kg) right guard, was a vital part of the legendary Packers sweep, a signature play in which both guards ripped out from their regular positions and lead block for the running back going around the midfield.
Kramer served on the All-Pro five times as a member of the NFL's 50th anniversary team in 1969. Kramer was recognized for being a finalist for the Hall of Fame ten times before being nominated.
He was rated No. 1 in 2008, and he was no. 1 in 2008. 1 in NFL Network's Top Ten Players Not in the Hall.
On August 4, 2018, Kramer was inducted into the Hall of Fame.
"You can if you will," he said at his induction address.
Early years
Born in eastern Montana, Kramer and his five siblings went from northern Utah to northern Idaho when he was in the fourth grade, eventually settling in Sandpoint. After graduating from Sandpoint High School in 1954, he accepted a football scholarship to the University of Idaho in Moscow to meet new head coach Skip Stahley. Idaho, the Pac-12's forerunner, was a participant in the Pacific Coast Conference during that period.
Kramer, along with teammate (and roadmate) Wayne Walker of Boise, a future All-Pro linebacker for the Detroit Lions, was a standout two-way player for the Vandals. Both played on the winning team in the East-West Shrine Game in late December in San Francisco, and in the College All-Star Game in Chicago in mid-August, where they defeated the defending NFL champion Lions. In January in Mobile, Alabama, Kramer was also a starter for the winning North team in the Senior Bowl.
Kramer's number 64 was withheld by the university in 1963, on his 27th birthday. (He wore #74 as a sophomore tackle in 1955 and #57 on the freshman team in 1954.) Kramer, who was a student at the University of On campus, he was a member of Sigma Nu fraternity, and he had also written letters in order and field (discus and shot put).
Personal life
After retiring from football, Kramer lived on a ranch near Parma, southwestern Idaho, with his second wife Wink, who later moved to Boise. Kramer has six children: Tony, Diane, Daniel, Alicia, Matthew, and Jordan, although Jordan has been divorced. He has five grandchildren. Matt and Jordan Kramer, both of his younger sons, played college football at the University of Idaho. Jordan, named after the Montana town in which Kramer was born, spent two seasons in the NFL as a linebacker with the Tennessee Titans in 2003 and 2004.
Kramer auctioned off several pieces of memorabilia to raise college funds for his grandchildren, including his ring from the first Super Bowl, which was sold for $125,000.
NFL career
Kramer was the 39th pick of the 1958 NFL Draft, taking the Green Bay Packers in the fourth round. In this draft, two other hall of famers for the Packers were chosen: fullback Jim Taylor of LSU (15th overall) and linebacker Ray Nitschke of Illinois in the third round (36th overall). Kramer appeared in every game in his debut season as a head coach under first-year coach Ray "Scooter" McLean, but the Packers finished with the lowest record (1–10–1) in the twelve-team league. Vince Lombardi, the Packers' offensive coach, was hired by the Packers in January 1959.
With Kramer as right guard, the Packers won five NFL titles and the first two Super Bowls. He served as the team's placekicker in 1962, 1963, and a part of 1968. He made 29 field goals, 90 extra points, for a total of 177 points as a kicker. In the Packers' 16-7 victory over the New York Giants in the 1962 NFL Championship Game at frigid Yankee Stadium, he scored ten points on three field goals and an extra point. He was jovially regarded as "the best knuckleball kicker in the NFL" in 1963. Walker was also a kicker in Idaho, with Walker as his long snapper; Walker, then, was also a part-time kicker for Detroit.
Kramer was often injured during his NFL career, including surgery to remove large wood fragments embedded in his abdomen from a teen car accident more than a decade ago, as well as a badly injured ankle in 1961. Kramer completed 129 regular season games, as well as a colostomy, which he described as "a horror film that hasn't been made yet." Despite these setbacks, Kramer was named an All-Pro five times (1960, 1962, 1963, 1966, and 1967); he was inducted into the Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame in 1993. Kramer is a member of the NFL's 50th Anniversary All-Time team and was the first member of the team to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. In 2003, he was elected to the Professional Footballers Association Hall of Very Good in the association's inaugural HOVG class.
On August 24, 2017, Kramer and Houston Oilers linebacker Robert Brazile was selected as finalists in the Pro Football Hall of Fame for 2018. Both individuals were selected for induction into the Hall of Fame as part of the 2018 class, with induction taking place on Saturday, August 4.
Kramer appeared on CBS in 1969 and then for NBC, next to Chuck Thompson on the play-by-play, Miami Dolphins @ Buffalo Bills, 1988.