Jerry Kramer Fast Facts

Born: Gerald Louis Kramer, January 23, 1936
Birthplace: Jordan, Montana
Chidhood homes: Salt Lake City, Utah; Layton, Utah; Sandpoint, Idaho
High School: Sandpoint High School (1954)
College: University of Idaho(1958)
Pro: Green Bay Packers(1958-1968)

Married:1956, Barbara (children: Tony, Diane, Danny)
Wink (children: Alicia, Matt, Jordan)
Current home: Parma, Idaho

Career Scoring:
Field Goals 29
PATs 90
Total Points 177

Honors:
University of Idaho, jersey #64 retired
Senior Bowl Hall of Fame, inducted 1970
All Pro Selection: 1960,1962,1963,1966,1967
Named Guard, 50th Anniversary NFL Team, 1970
Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame, inducted 1975

Books:
Instant Reply with Dick Schaap, 1968
Farewell to Football, Dick Schaap Ed., 1969
Lombardi: Winning is the Only Thing, 1970
Distant Replay iwth Dick Schaap, 1985

Jerry Kramer as kicker at Sandpoint High School in Idaho.
His kicking experience helped the Packers win the 1962 NFL Championship.
Photo from Jerry Kramer's "Instant Replay", (c) World Publishing, 1968.

Football and Medical Chronology

(borrowing heavily from Jerry Kramer's "Farewell to Football") 1950: Caught shirt in turning screw of lathe at high school. Ripped out a fist-size chunk of right side. Stitches.

1951: Accidently shot right arm and side with double-barrel 10-gauge shotgun. Wound required four operations, skin grafts, and plastic surgery over the next few years.

1953: Ran over sharp board while chasing calf in pasture. Seven-and-one-half inch long, three-quarter inch thick splinter penetrated groin and lodged in large muscle near spine.

1954: Graduated from Sandpoint High School. Began studying at the University of Idaho.

1955: Operation for suspected chipped vertebra in neck results in "zipper" scar.

1958: Drafted by the Green Bay Packers.

1959: Vince Lombardi becomes head coach of Packers.

1960: Brain concussion and detached retina suffered in game against Los Angeles Rams (surgically corrected after the season).

1961: Two bones in left ankle separated and ligaments severely strained during game against the Minnesota Vikings.
Packers win NFL Championship

1962: Kicks 3 field goals in NFL Championship game against the New York Giants.
Packers win NFL Championship.

1964: Operation for tumor on liver. Emergency colostomy. Six-and-one-half hour surgery in lower left abdominal area during which four slivers of wood (that had been lodged for eleven years) were removed. Missed the entire season.

1965: Packers win NFL championship.

1966: Packers win NFL championship and what is now known as Super Bowl I (Jan '67).

1967: (June) Began daily diary of life that became Instant Replay.
Makes block with Ken Bowman for Bart Starr's winning QB sneak in Ice Bowl.
Packers win third consecutive NFL championship and Super Bowl II (Jan., '68).

1968: Published "Instant Replay". Retired from the Green Bay Packers.

1969: Wrote Farewell to Football.

1970: Edited Lombardi: Winning is the Only Thing.

1975: Inducted in the Green Bay Packer Hall of Fame.

1984: Attends reunion of Super Bowl I Packers organized by Fuzzy Thurston. This becomes the basis for the book Distant Replay.

1996: Placed on 1997 Hall of Fame ballot by Pro Football Hall of Fame Senior Committee.

Original material (c) 1996 Keith Brewster. Others as noted.
Not endorsed by Jerry Kramer, the Green Bay Packers or the NFL.

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