Datos sobre biodiversidad

College: Maryville College; Oklahoma Full Name: Ronald Martin Wolf Birthdate: December 30, 1938 Birthplace: New Freedom, Pennsylvania High School: Susquehannock High School (Glen Rock, PA)

Elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame: Jan. 31, 2015

Enshrined into the Pro Football Hall of Fame: Aug. 8, 2015

Other Members of the Class of 2015: Jerome Bettis, Tim Brown, Charles Haley, Bill Polian, Junior Seau, Will Shields, Mick Tingelhoff

CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES

1967 AFL – Oakland Raiders 40, Houston Oilers 7 1968 AFL – New York Jets 27, Oakland Raiders 23 1969 AFL – Kansas City Chiefs 17, Oakland Raiders 7 1970 AFC – Baltimore Colts 27, Oakland Raiders 17 1973 AFC – Miami Dolphins 27, Oakland Raiders 10 1974 AFC – Pittsburgh Steelers 24, Oakland Raiders 13

1980 AFC – Oakland Raiders 34, San Diego Chargers 27

1983 AFC – Los Angeles Raiders 30, Seattle Seahawks 14

1995 NFC – Dallas Cowboys 38, Green Bay Packers 27

1996 NFC – Green Bay Packers 30, Carolina Panthers 13

1997 NFC – Green Bay Packers 23, San Francisco 49ers 10

SUPER BOWLS

Super Bowl II – Green Bay Packers 33, Oakland Raiders 14

Super Bowl XV – Oakland Raiders 27, Philadelphia

Eagles 10

Super Bowl XVIII – Oakland Raiders 38,

Washington Redskins 9

Super Bowl XXXI – Green Bay Packers 35, New

England Patriots 21

Super Bowl XXXII – Denver Broncos 31, Green Bay Packers 24

Year Team Record Div. Finish

1963 Oakland Raiders 10-4-0 (2nd) 1964 Oakland Raiders 5-7-2 (3rd) 1965 Oakland Raiders 8-5-1 (2nd) 1966 Oakland Raiders 8-5-1 (2nd) 1967 Oakland Raiders 13-1-0 (1st) 1968 Oakland Raiders 12-2-0 (1st) 1969 Oakland Raiders 12-1-1 (1st) 1970 Oakland Raiders 8-4-2 (1st) 1971 Oakland Raiders 8-4-2 (2nd) 1972 Oakland Raiders 10-3-1 (1st) 1973 Oakland Raiders 9-4-1 (1st) 1974 Oakland Raiders 12-2-0 (1st) 1976 Tampa Bay Buccaneers 0-14-0 (5th) 1977 Tampa Bay Buccaneers 2-12-0 (5th) 1978 Tampa Bay Buccaneers 5-11-0 (5th)

1979 Oakland Raiders 9-7-0 (4th)

1980 Oakland Raiders 11-5-0 (2nd)

1981 Oakland Raiders 7-9-0 (4th)

1982 Los Angeles Raiders 8-1-0 (1st*)

1983 Los Angeles Raiders 12-4-0 (1st) 1984 Los Angeles Raiders 11-5-0 (3rd) 1985 Los Angeles Raiders 12-4-0 (1st) 1986 Los Angeles Raiders 8-8-0 (4th) 1987 Los Angeles Raiders 5-10-0 (4th) 1988 Los Angeles Raiders 7-9-0 (3rd) 1989 Los Angeles Raiders 8-8-0 (3rd)

1990 New York Jets 6-10-0 (4th)

1991 New York Jets 8-8-0 (2nd#)

1991 Green Bay Packers 4-12-0 (4th**)

1992 Green Bay Packers 9-7-0 (2nd)

1993 Green Bay Packers 9-7-0 (3rd) 1994 Green Bay Packers 9-7-0 (2nd) 1995 Green Bay Packers 11-5-0 (1st) 1996 Green Bay Packers 13-3-0 (1st) 1997 Green Bay Packers 13-3-0 (1st) 1998 Green Bay Packers 11-5-0 (2nd)

1999 Green Bay Packers 8-8-0 (4th)

2000 Green Bay Packers 9-7-0 (3rd) 2001 Green Bay Packers 12-4-0 (2nd)

YEAR-BY-YEAR TEAM RECORDS

MEDIA GUIDE EXCERPT

Biography provided by the Green Bay Packers

Ron Wolf, Executive Vice President / General Manager 1991-2001

Decisive, dedicated and determined, Ron Wolf arrived upon the Green Bay scene in late 1991 with a mandate to win -- and rescue the Packers from a quarter-century of mediocrity.

Nine years later, having done precisely that, the team’s astute executive vice president and general manager has been accorded his just due -- enshrine- ment in the Packer Hall of Fame -- in the heady and remarkable wake of seven consecutive winning sea- sons, six straight playoff berths, a Super Bowl triumph and back-to-back appearances in pro football’s ulti- mate game.

Highly appropriate recognition for one who has done it all, professionally speaking, Wolf thus became the 124th member of the Green Bay shrine during a ceremony conducted July 28, 2000, joining the late Vince Lombardi, another major architect of singular

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2015 PRO FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME MEDIA GUIDE

Packer success in an earlier time.

Wolf was accorded the ultimate honor for presid- ing over one of the most comprehensive turnabouts in National Football League history during his eight-year tenure, converting the Green and Gold from perennial also-rans into consistent winners, Super Bowl champi- ons and the standard of the pro football world.

An underlying component of the Packers’ revival has been Wolf’s strength in selecting players in the annual NFL Draft, particularly in the later rounds. An amazing 75 percent of his draftees since 1993 -- 48 of 64 over an eight-year span -- were still playing in the National Football League at the conclusion of the 1999 season. His rate of success in determining NFL-quality talent clearly rates among the league’s best, especially when viewed against the backdrop of the regular play- er movement that goes hand-in-hand with the current era of free agency.

The eight-year record under Wolf, with a 92-50 overall mark as the centerpiece, is remarkable. In addition to the aforementioned seven consecutive winning seasons and six straight playoff berths, it has included:

• Back-to-back Super Bowl appearances (1996 and 1997) and Green Bay’s first Super Bowl champion- ship in 29 years (1996)

• Back-to-back NFC championships (1996 and 1997) • Three consecutive NFC Central Division titles

(1995-96-97)

• The first string of four double-digit winning reg- ular seasons for a Green Bay team since 1929-32 (11-5 in 1995, 13-3 in both 1996 and 1997 and 11-5 in 1998)

• The first 16-victory campaign in the Packers’ now 81-year history (1996)

• The second-longest home-field winning streak in NFL history, 25 straight regular-season games • An amazing 49 wins in the last 55 games -- includ-

ing playoffs -- in the team’s Lambeau Field home. Much of those successes having been achieved in partnership with Mike Holmgren (1992-98), now general manager and head coach of the Seattle Seahawks. Wolf (took) on the challenge of following that stellar “act” with a new partner...Mike Sherman, who returns to Green Bay as head coach after serv- ing as tight ends coach under Holmgren in 1997-98 and as offensive coordinator for Seattle, also under Holmgren, in 1999.

Tireless, aggressive and uncommonly resourceful, Wolf has emphatically fulfilled the commitment he made in taking over the Packers’ football operations in late November of 1991, launching the renaissance of a franchise that had had only four winning seasons

during a 24-year span. And, in the history-making process, he has made a more profound impact upon the Packers organization and its artistic fortunes than anyone since the arrival of the legendary Lombardi upon the Green Bay scene 41 years ago.

As the recent record eloquently suggests, seldom has anyone responded to a challenge with greater celerity than the man who earlier had played a major role in developing the Oakland/Los Angeles Raiders into one of professional football’s most successful franchises.

In appreciation for his considerable achievements, Wolf twice has been rewarded with three-year exten- sions of his original five-year contract -- the first in 1994 and the most recent on April 7, 1997. The latest document will have him presiding over the Packers’ competitive fortunes through the year 2002.

Packers President Bob Harlan paid tribute to Wolf’s accomplishments in announcing the most recent extension, asserting, “I think Ron is the best general manager in the National Football League, and he obviously has done a remarkable job in the past seven years to put us back on top in the league.

“I also think continuity and stability in that posi- tion are vitally important. And this is a way for us to show our appreciation for his accomplishments.”

Wolf, in turn, calls his “the ultimate job” in his profession, “particularly (for) a person at my level. Green Bay is it, as far as I’m concerned, for that very reason. There isn’t an owner whose ego needs to be stroked. You’re given everything you need to do the job. To me, that’s so important. Nobody has denied us anything.”

A man with a deep appreciation for the game and its history -- and the Packers’ history and tradition, in particular -- he said at the announcement of his sec- ond contract extension, “To me, it’s a distinct honor to be able to continue my association with professional football’s most historic and traditional franchise, the Green Bay Packers. It’s an honor and a privilege.”

In the months that followed his 1991 hiring, Wolf executed two significant trades, then later supple- mented his new club with a series of shrewd acquisi- tions via the waiver wire and free agent market.

The key transaction saw him acquire Brett Favre, a highly-talented young quarterback, from the Atlanta Falcons with a first-round draft choice, a move that has paid spectacular dividends, Favre having presid- ed over the offense in each of its seven consecutive winning seasons from 1992-98 and been acclaimed as the NFL’s ‘Most Valuable Player’ for a record three consecutive years (1995, 1996 and 1997) while lead- ing the Packers to a Super Bowl victory in 1996 and a return to pro football’s ultimate game in 1997. . .

In the wake of that remarkable turnaround -- the

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Packers had been 4-and-12 in 1991 after going 6-and- 10 in 1990 -- Wolf was saluted as ‘NFL Executive of the Year’ by The Sporting News, thus becoming the first Packer executive ever to be so honored. Harlan, the Packers’ chief executive officer -- and the man who hired him -- offers a specific analysis as to why per- haps Wolf succeeded where others before him failed. “I think I can tell you, Ron Wolf spends every minute of every waking hour thinking about what he can do to make this football team better,” Harlan said. “He’s dedicated and working at it so constantly. With that work ethic, you think, ‘We’re going to make it.’ In 1993, Wolf further bolstered the team’s talent level by venturing aggressively into the free agent market, following the advent of unrestricted free agency, bringing in Reggie White, considered by many the greatest defensive end in pro football history, and starting guard Harry Galbreath, among others…

…Already recognized throughout the National Football League for triggering the Packers’ return to prominence during his tenure in the organization, Wolf also was saluted for his skill and cooperation in another, related area, when he was honored by the Pro Football Writers of America following the 1995 season for his contributions to their professional efforts. The PFWA announced that Wolf had been selected to receive the organization’s prestigious ‘Horrigan Award,’ presented annually “to the league official or player for his or her professional style in helping football writers do their job.” The award is named in honor of the late Jack Horrigan, former publicity director of the American Football League and vice president of public relations for the Buffalo Bills… In the interim, the National Quarterback Club has honored Wolf for his multiple contributions to the Packers’ artistic renaissance. He was presented with the organization’s ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ at its annual recognition dinner (June 4, 1998). He also was saluted in 1998 by the Anti-Defamation League, which presented him with its ‘World of Difference Award.’

The Packers’ dramatic turnaround since Wolf’s arrival accompanied by increasingly high expectations from the team’s excited loyalists, has documented Harlan’s decision to bring him in late in 1991 with total authority over the organization’s football operation.

“When we started the search to fill the position,” Harlan said at the time of the announcement, “we put together a list of eight names. Ron’s name was at the top of the list.”

Wolf, who previously had spent 25 years in the front office of the Raiders, took over a position new to the Packers’ organizational structure in terms of authority and responsibility, said authority including hiring and supervising the head coach and the scout- ing staff, conducting the draft and making all football decisions for the organization.

Wolf launched his professional football career under Davis in 1963 when he joined the then-fledgling Raiders as a talent scout.

Subsequently, when Davis was named American Football League commissioner in 1966, Wolf accom- panied him to the league office as the AFL’s coordi- nator of talent. He returned to the Raiders with Davis prior to the opening of the 1966 season and played a major role in the club’s personnel operation until the spring of 1975.

At that time, the then 37-year-old Wolf was named to oversee the formation of the newly-fran- chised Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the NFL as vice president of operations. He remained in that capacity until 1978, when he re-joined the Raiders, for whom he headed up player personnel operations until he signed on with the Jets organization in June of 1990.

His efforts in behalf of the Tampa Bay franchise bore fruit in 1979 when the players Wolf assembled carried the Buccaneers to the NFC Central title and, in the playoffs, as far as the National Football Conference Championship Game before they bowed to the then- Los Angeles Rams in a defensive struggle, 9-0.