8/22/2001 - Football
Ron Wolf Joins Navy Broadcast Team
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Posted by: Scott Strasemeier
ANNAPOLIS, Md.-Ron Wolf, widely regarded as one of the best general managers in the history of the National Football League, has joined the Navy Football Radio Network for two games this fall. Wolf will handle the color commentary for the Toledo and Notre Dame games, filling in for John Feinstein, who had previous commitments.
"I am honored to be a part of such a storied tradition as Naval Academy Football," said Wolf. "I have been a long-time fan of Service Academy football and I am a great admirer of the student-athletes at the academies. This is a wonderful opportunity and I am looking forward to it."
Wolf retired as General Manager of the Packers after last season and left behind a legacy of greatness. He built the Packers into perennial NFL contenders during his nine-year tenure, punctuated by their first Super Bowl victory in three decades and back-to-back appearances in professional football's ultimate game.
The 62-year-old New Freedom, Pa., native was enshrined in the Packer Hall of Fame in July of 2000 for converting the Green and Gold from perennial also-rans into consistent winners and the standard of the pro football world.
A major ingredient in the Packers' revival was Wolf's superior talent for selecting players in the annual NFL draft. A contribution underscored by the fact that a remarkable 57.8 percent of those he has drafted during his tenure were still playing in the league at the end of the 2000 regular season at a time when the average career length for an NFL player is closer to four years.
The list of accomplishments during Wolf's aggressive stewardship, launched with the hiring of 49ers offensive coordinator Mike Holmgren as head coach and the acquisition of Favre as a franchise quarterback in 1992, is both long and lustrous. It includes:
* Seven-consecutive winning seasons (1992-98);
* Six-consecutive playoff appearances (1993-1998);
* The NFL's best regular-season won-lost record since the advent of the salary cap in 1994 (74-38, a .661 percentage);
* A 92-52 regular-season record (a .639 winning percentage);
* 101 total victories, including playoffs, in nine seasons;
* A 53-10 regular-season record in Lambeau Field (a .841 winning percentage);
* The second-longest home winning streak in NFL history (25-straight regular-season victories - from Game Two of the 1995 season through Game Four of the 1998 season);
* Back-to-back National Football Conference titles (1996-97);
* Three-consecutive NFC Central Division Championships;
* The first string of four double-digit winning seasons for Green Bay since 1929-32 (11-5 in 1995, 13-3 in 1996 and 1997 and 11-5 in 1998);
* The first 16-victory season in the Packers' 81-year history (16-3 in 1996); and
* Seven consecutive victories over the Bears in Chicago (1994-2000), a Green Bay record against its enemies in the Windy City.
"I can't imagine another school in the country having an announce team as good as Bob Socci, John Feinstein and Ron Wolf," said Naval Academy Director of Athletics Jack Lengyel. "Socci is one of the best young announcers in the country and I would put the combination of Feinstein and Wolf up against any color commentator in the country."
