Bob Harlan - Success

Success

Bob Harlan is credited with keeping the Packers competitive in the era of free agency and the salary cap, and for creating the foundation for the Packers' twelfth World Championship in Super Bowl XXXI.

Among Harlan's most notable accomplishments are:

• Building the Don Hutson Center, the first indoor practice facility in professional football.
• The decision to move all home games to Lambeau Field, creating season ticket packages for the Milwaukee fans who had previously attended three games a season at Milwaukee County Stadium;
• Renovating Lambeau Field into a state-of-the-art facility, with increased game day capacity and a year-round Atrium housing restaurants, the Packer Pro Shop and the Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame;
• Launching the fourth stock sale in the team's history in 1997, a mechanism which raised more than $20 million and brought more than 100,000 new shareholders to the organization;
• Hiring Ron Wolf, who traded for Brett Favre, signed free agent Reggie White and began the chain of events that led to a World Championship;

Harlan was inducted into the Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame on July 17, 2004.

Harlan was elected to the Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame in 2009.