Vernon Biever
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Vernon J. Biever is a photographer for the Green Bay Packers professional football team.
Biever covered his first Packers game in 1941, while a student at St. Norbert College in DePere, Wisconsin. [1] He has been the official team photographer since 1946 [2], his career spanning the days of Curly Lambeau, through the Vince Lombardi era, and continuing to the present day.
His photographs were collected in 1997 in a book entitled The Glory of Titletown (ISBN: 0878339906).
Biever was inducted into the Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame in 2002. His son John has followed in his father's footsteps, and is himself a photographer for Sports Illustrated.
[edit] References
- Packers press release, "STERLING SHARPE & VERNON BIEVER HEADED TO PACKER HALL OF FAME", May 21, 2002
- "He's always been in the picture for Packers", Milwaukee Jounal Sentinel, May 23, 2002
