excited to meet former Packers player Bob Long '64.
And check out the bling on Long's finger — it's one of
his Super Bowl rings.
Bob Long ’64, who was part of three championship seasons with the Green Bay Packers from 1965 to 1967, was on campus this fall as a WSU Distinguished Alumni Speaker.
After being a Third Team All American as a Shocker, he was drafted in the fourth round by Green Bay in 1964. He played on the Green Bay teams that won the NFL Championship in 1965, and won the first two Super Bowls in 1966 and 1967.
That Packers team is the only team in NFL history to win three championships in a row. The bulk of Long’s seven-year pro career was spent with the Packers, but he also played with the Washington Redskins, the Atlanta Falcons and spent his final season as a pro with the Los Angeles Rams in 1970.
During his Oct. 23 presentation, Long reminisced about his playing days as a Packer — and as a Shocker.
A member of the Wichita Sports Hall of Fame and the Pizza Hut Shocker Sports Hall of Fame, he was a two-sport athlete at WSU; he also played basketball. Back in Wisconsin, he is active in fundraising events for a number of nonprofits, including Special Olympics and the Alzheimer’s Association.
He is also a longstanding champion of his alma mater and the WSUAA, to which he has for years now contributed a one-of-a-kind Green Bay Packers live auction travel package — featuring Row 1 tickets to a select Packers game — to Rockin’ the Roundhouse, the alumni association’s largest fundraiser. This year, Long was in the RnR audience as his contribution was auctioned off to the highest bidder during the Oct. 24 live auction in Charles Koch Arena.
Among the more than 100 attendees at Long’s distinguished speaker talk, held in Koch Arena’s Champions Club, were Spike Anderson ’93/95, Rocky Both, Dorothy Harmon ’46, Vic Heckart ’62, Deanna Heller ’63, Eric Sexton ’87/92, — and Sharon Mathis, who was the winning bidder on Long’s Green Bay auction package in 2014.
