About

Bob was born and raised in Milwaukee. He felt an affinity to Wisconsin for three reasons early in his life. Bob was born in 1957, and that was the year that Lambeau Field was originally built and also the year the city of Milwaukee won their only World Series, as the Braves defeated the Yankees in seven games. Plus, Bob was born on May 29th, which is the same day Wisconsin became a state in 1848.

Bob went to Messmer High School in Milwaukee where he was a classmate and a teammate of Bob Leszczynski, who played quarterback for the football team and was named the Wisconsin High School Football Player of the Year. Leszczynski went on to play for Navy and led the Midshipmen to a win over BYU (who were quarterbacked by Jim McMahon and Marc Wilson) in the first ever Holiday Bowl.

After high school, Bob attended UW-Oshkosh for a couple of years where he became good friends with Kevin Cosgrove, who later became the defensive coordinator at the University of Wisconsin, and who is currently the defensive coordinator at Long Island University. In 2019, Cos was on the LSU staff, as the Tigers won the BCS championship. Kevin also helped Barry Alvarez and the Badgers win three Big 10 championships and three Rose Bowls.

Bob finished up college at UW-Milwaukee where he majored in Mass Communication. Bob was also an intern at WTMJ during that time, plus he was kept on as a reporter after that for a while. Bob was also sports director at Viacom cable in the Milwaukee area.

Bob helped his parents move to their winter home in Florida in 1983, and it was during that time that he met his wife Pam. Bob has lived in Florida since 1984, but Pam, son Andrew and Bob come up to Wisconsin every summer to Cedar Grove, where his family has a summer home right on Lake Michigan. Cedar Grove is only about an hour or so south of Green Bay.

As Bob looked for media jobs in Florida when he first moved there, he eventually ended up in sales, and was with Xerox for several years. Bob has also become the voice of Wisconsin on sports radio in the Tampa Bay area for over two decades. Bob has been a regular caller at 620 WDAE, where he is known as “Green Bay Bob” when he chats about sports.

Bob closely follows the Packers, Badgers, Brewers, Bucks, Golden Eagles and Panthers, but also enjoys sports in Florida as he is a big supporter of the Lightning, Rays, Gators and Bulls, plus enjoys the Bucs, when they aren’t playing the Packers.

Bob always had the itch to return to the media, and he became a writer at Packer Report, where he was for several years, before joining Wisconsin Sports Online (Packer Chatters) writing about the Packers, Badgers and Brewers. Bob also occasionally writes for JoeBucsFan.com which covers the Tampa Bay Bucs, and also used to write for JoeBoltsFan.com which covered the Tampa Bay Lightning when the site was operational.

Bob also has a piece in the 2012 Green Bay Packers Yearbook that profiles the draft class from that year for the Packers.

Plus, in the 2018 Green Bay Packers Yearbook, Bob has an article about Jerry Kramer’s rightful and well-deserved induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Before he started his own blog page in the summer of 2015, Bob worked as a Featured Columnist for Bleacher Report from November of 2011 into June of 2015, mainly covering the Green Bay Packers, but also did columns for teams like the Tampa Bay Lightning, the Tampa Bay Bucs and the Wisconsin Badgers as well.

By doing his own blog page, Bob can write about those items and much more, including other subject matter as well.

Bob also is a contributing writer for LandryFootball.com.

Bob recently wrote a book about Jerry Kramer, which is called Run to Win. The book was published by Triumph Books, the largest sports book publishing company in the United States. The book became available in bookstores on September 19, 2023. The book is available at Triumph Books, Amazon, Walmart, Target, Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million, the Green Bay Packers Pro Shop and the Boswell Book Company in Milwaukee.

Bob also helped to produce a documentary which was done about Kramer. That project was headed by award-winning filmmaker Glenn Aveni, who also hails from Milwaukee. 

The film goes back to Jerry’s childhood growing up in Sandpoint, Idaho. It captures Jerry’s time in high school and also at the University of Idaho. Then there was the 11 wonderful years Jerry spent in Green Bay playing under Vince Lombardi. Jerry was part of a team which won five NFL championships in seven years, which included the first two Super Bowls. Plus, the Packers won three straight NFL titles (1965, 1966 & 1967), which is something that has never been duplicated in the playoff era of the NFL which started in 1933.

The signature moment of the time under Coach Lombardi was the victory in the “Ice Bowl”, aka the 1967 NFL title game. That game included the signature drive in the Lombardi era, as well as the signature play, Starr’s quarterback sneak. Jerry played a big role in all those memorable moments.

That period was an unforgettable time in Jerry’s life. He was part of a great collection of individuals, who excelled on the playing field and also in life in general, thanks to the coaching and teaching of Coach Lombardi.

The documentary also delves into Jerry’s literary career and then the long 44-year journey that Jerry took on his way to enshrinement into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

One day, Jerry can look back on all of the wonderful achievements he has accomplished in his life.

“I know I’ll go home and go fishing one of these days,” Jerry says in the film. “And sit out on the water and remember the days and some of the moments and some of the players and some of the guys. I think I just need to be alone and be out in the bushes somewhere and think about it for a while. But it’s been all I dreamed it could be and more. It’s just been more that I ever hoped it would be.”