NFL legend returning to old stomping grounds

SANDPOINT — More than six decades ago, a strapping, athletic high school athlete named Jerry Kramer was making play after play on the football field at War Memorial Stadium, demonstrating the skills that would eventually earn him a spot on the NFL’s All-50th Anniversary Team in 1969.

Now a local legend is coming home, as the NFL is flying Kramer to Sandpoint on Friday, where the former Bulldog, Idaho Vandal and Green Bay Packer legend will present a gold NFL football to his former high school.

The event is part of the 50th anniversary of the Super Bowl, with the NFL donating a gold football to the high school of every player and coach who has ever participated in a Super Bowl.

Kramer was a key player in the first two, and considering he carried legendary Packers coach Vince Lombardi on his shoulders after the first Super Bowl win, that he made arguably the most famous block in the history of the NFL to win the Ice Bowl, and that he was one of the stars of the signature and iconic Packers Sweep, it’s easy to see why the NFL is sending a videographer to capture the moment.

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