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
