Jerry Kramer Gerald Louis " Jerry " Kramer ( born January 23 , 1936 ) is a former professional football player , author and sports commentator , best remembered for his 11 - year NFL career with the Green Bay Packers as an offensive lineman . As a , right guard , Kramer was an integral part of the famous " Packer Sweep " , a signature play in which both guards rapidly pull out from their normal positions and lead block for the running back going around the end . Kramer was an All - Pro five times , and a member of the NFL ' s 50th anniversary team in 1969 , but surprisingly , even after appearing on the list of finalists ten times since becoming eligible , has not been inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame . He was rated # 1 in NFL Network ' s Top 10 list of players not in the Hall of Fame . Early years . Born in eastern Montana in Jordan , Jerry Kramer moved with his parents and five siblings from northern Utah to northern Idaho when he was in the fourth grade , settling in Sandpoint . After graduating from Sandpoint High School in 1954 , he accepted a football scholarship to the University of Idaho to play for new coach Skip Stahley . In that era , Idaho was a member of the Pacific Coast Conference , the forerunner of the Pac - 12 . Kramer was a standout player for the Vandals , along with teammate ( and roommate ) Wayne Walker of Boise , a future All - Pro linebacker with the Detroit Lions . Both played in the East - West Shrine Game and the College All - Star Game that summer , in which they defeated the defending NFL champion Lions . Kramer would have his uniform number 64 retired by the university . While at Idaho , Kramer joined Sigma Nu fraternity . NFL career . Kramer was the 39th player selected in the 1958 NFL Draft , taken in the fourth round by the Green Bay Packers . Two Hall - of - Famers for the Packers were taken in this draft : fullback Jim Taylor of LSU in the second round ( 15th overall ) , and linebacker Ray Nitschke of Illinois in the third round ( 36th overall ) . Kramer played every game in his rookie season of 1958 but the Packers finished with the worst record ( 1 - 10 - 1 ) in the 12 - team league . In January 1959 , the Packers hired a new head coach , Vince Lombardi , the offensive coach of the New York Giants . With Kramer playing right guard , the Packers won five NFL titles and the first two Super Bowl s . Kramer also served as the team ' s place kicker in 1962 , 1963 , and part of 1968 . As a kicker , he kicked 29 field goals , 90 extra points , for a total of 177 points . He also kicked 3 field goals and 1 extra point in the Packers 16 - 7 victory over the New York Giants in the 1962 NFL title game . In college at Idaho , he was also a kicker , with Wayne Walker as his long snapper . During his career , Kramer was often injured . Among these were surgery to remove sizable wood fragments embedded in his abdomen from a teenage accident , and a badly injured ankle suffered in 1961 . In all , Kramer played in 129 regular season games ; he also had 22 surgeries in 11 seasons , including a colostomy , which he described as " a horror movie that hasn ' t been made yet . " Despite these setbacks , Kramer was selected as an All - Pro five times ( 1960 , 1962 , 1963 , 1966 , and 1967 ) . He was elected to the Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame in 1993 . He is a member of the NFL ' s 50th Anniversary All - Time team , and the only member of that team not in the Pro Football Hall of Fame . Author . In his penultimate season of 1967 , Kramer collaborated with Dick Schaap on his first book , the best - selling " Instant Replay " , a diary of the season which chronicled the life of a professional football player offensive lineman . The book climaxed with Kramer ' s lead block in front of Bart Starr to win the " Ice Bowl " championship game . Kramer and Schaap would write two more books together . Kramer played one more year , under new head coach Phil Bengtson in 1968 . After that season , which saw the aging Packers fall to a losing record of 6 - 7 - 1 , Kramer wrote a second book , " Farewell to Football " . After retiring , Kramer briefly worked as a color commentator on CBS National Football League telecasts . In 1970 , following the death of Vince Lombardi , Kramer edited " Lombardi : Winning Is the Only Thing " , a collection of reminiscences from coaches , players , friends and family of Lombardi whom Kramer interviewed for the book . In 1985 , Kramer wrote " Distant Replay " , which updated the whereabouts of the members of the Packers ' Super Bowl I championship team following a team reunion at Lambeau Field during the 1984 season . In October 2005 , he released " Inside the Locker Room " a CD set that includes Vince Lombardi ’ s final locker room address as the head coach of the Green Bay Packers , immediately after Super Bowl II . In September 2006 , Kramer re - released his 1968 best seller , " Instant Replay " . Personal . After retirement from the NFL , Kramer lived on a ranch near Parma in southwestern Idaho with his second wife , Edwina ( Wink ) and their three children , but now live in Boise . Kramer has 6 children and 4 grandchildren . His youngest sons , Matt and Jordan , also played college football at Idaho . Jordan , named in memory of Hall of Fame defensive tackle Henry Jordan , played two seasons in the NFL as a linebacker with the Tennessee Titans in 2003 and 2004 .