Vernon Biever, a photographer who documented the Green Bay Packers for decades, has died. He was 87.
Biever’s photos, some of which can be seen at Packers.com, are essential viewing for anyone who wants to understand the history of the Packers franchise. Biever first attended a Packers game as a newspaper photographer in 1941, when Curly Lambeau was the coach and Don Hutson was the star player. Biever later became the team’s official photographer.
“When I think of Vernon Biever, I think of a man who captured the most romantic football dynasty in NFL history,” NFL Films President Steve Sabol said in 2008. “He had a talent to capture the intensity and emotion of the game in less than ideal conditions, and his composition is so strong that his images tell stories and evoke a human spirit, elation or defeat.”
Classic photographs of iconic images like Paul Hornung flying into the end zone and Vince Lombardi being carried off the field earned Biever a place in the Packers Hall of Fame.
