Sportswriter and team historian for the Green Bay Packers
Clifford A. Christl (born in 1947) is an American sportswriter who is the team historian of the Green Bay Packers, a football team in the National Football League (NFL). Prior to this role, Christl worked as a newspaper reporter for over 30 years at newspapers in Wisconsin, including the Manitowoc Herald Times, the Green Bay Press-Gazette and the Milwaukee Journal (which became the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel during his tenure). Throughout his years as a reporter, Christl covered the Packers as a sportswriter, while also chronicling the team in his spare time (which included writing two books) and helping establish the Packers Heritage Trail. In 2014, after historian Lee Remmel left the team, Christl was named the team's historian. One of his first activities after being hired was to write The Greatest Story in Sports: Green Bay Packers 1919–2019, a four-part book chronicling the first 100 years of the history of the Packers. Christl also writes articles on the team's history, records oral histories with past Packers' players and coaches and answers fan's questions about the team.
questions about the team. CliffChristl was born in 1947, in Green Bay, Wisconsin, where he attended Green Bay East High School. Christl's father, also named...
team itself, was eventually solved in June, 2018, by Packers historian CliffChristl. Some of the trophies, such as the two replicas the Green Bay Packers...
colleagues and Packers executives, including Lombardi, Bob Harlan, CliffChristl and Mark Murphy. He noted that Lombardi was the most challenging person...
finest player I ever coached!" but official Packers team historian CliffChristl can find no evidence of Lombardi ever saying or writing that. In 1999...
Wisconsin Athletic Walk of Fame Lists of Green Bay Packers players Christl, Cliff. "William Brault". Packers.com. Archived from the original on September...
from the original on February 9, 2024. Retrieved February 9, 2024. Christl, Cliff. "Earl "Curly" Lambeau". Packers.com. Archived from the original on...
Maxymuk 2016 – Mark L. Ford 2015 – Jack Clary 2014 – Pete Fierle 2013 – CliffChristl 2012 – Chris Willis 2011 – Ken Crippen 2010 – Pete Palmer 2009 – Bob...
Archived from the original on June 4, 2022. Retrieved February 22, 2024. Christl, Cliff. "Earl "Curly" Lambeau". Packers.com. Archived from the original on...
Archived from the original on February 2, 2024. Retrieved March 11, 2024. Christl, Cliff. "Paul Hornung". Packers.com. Archived from the original on June 7,...
Christl, Cliff. "Andrew B. Turnbull". Green Bay Packers. Archived from the original on October 7, 2018. Retrieved October 2, 2023. Christl, Cliff. "Leland...
(PDF). planning.lacity.org. City of Los Angeles. Retrieved 16 May 2023. CliffChristl. "Leland H. Joannes". packers.com. Green Bay Packers. Retrieved 20 May...
expressing interest, he was ultimately released. Packers' historian CliffChristl noted that Himes lacked proper recognition for his accomplishments because...
Fox River. The Packers Heritage Trail was developed by sportswriter CliffChristl, who would go on to become the team historian of the Packers. It was...
January 8, 2024. Christl, Cliff. "Vince Lombardi". Archived from the original on June 6, 2023. Retrieved January 9, 2024. Christl, Cliff (July 15, 2015)...
Packers", Milwaukee Sentinel, January 31, 1968. Retrieved June 4, 2020. CliffChristl, "Talented, fun-loving Fred Carr dies at age 71". Packers.com, February...
"dramatic style and extensive vocabulary." Green Bay Packers historian CliffChristl said of him: "One of pro football's pioneer announcers, Winnie was the...
original on 2018-01-04. Retrieved 2018-01-03. Ken Kranz NFL profile CliffChristl, "Flashback" Milwaukee Journal Sentinel November 17, 2004 at C3. "Ken...
Polish-American Sports Hall of Fame in 2020. Packers' team historian CliffChristl noted that Olejniczak "was a soft-spoken consensus-builder, but carried...
NFL's official encyclopedic history of professional football, 1973. CliffChristl, "Packers Flashback[permanent dead link]" Milwaukee Journal Sentinel...
The Sheboygan Press. November 13, 1962. p. 17 – via Newspapers.com. CliffChristl (28 May 1978). "Where are you now Gary Kroner?". Green Bay Press-Gazette...
com does not include him on the 1955 team, while Packers historian CliffChristl includes it in his write-up of Martinkovic for the Green Bay Packers...
Retrieved 2015-09-29. "Herald-Journal - Google News Archive Search". CliffChristl, "Packers' kicking woes, 1968 to 1971". Green Bay Packers website, January...
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