[3] Professional sports franchises, including the Packers, retire uniform numbers to recognize the contributions that a player has made towards the team.
In the case of the Packers, the retired numbers are displayed above the box seats in the north end zone of Lambeau Field.
[5] His number was retired by coach Gene Ronzani during a brief ceremony at halftime of a game against the New York Yanks.
He may be most famous for his winning touchdown dive in the closing seconds of the 1967 NFL Championship Game, which became known as the "Ice Bowl".
Nitschke was a five-time NFL Champion and two-time Super Bowl winner under coach Vince Lombardi and anchored the Packers defense for 15 seasons.
White, who was known as the "Minister of Defense", came to the Packers as one of the first big signings of the newly revised NFL free agency rules in 1993 and played for the team for six seasons.
As a Packer, he was a Super Bowl champion in 1996, a two-time first-team All-Pro and was named the NFL Defensive Player of the Year in 1998.
[16][17] Quarterback Brett Favre, White's teammate for six seasons, became the sixth and most recent Packer to have his number (No.
First, Vince Lombardi, who initiated the number retirement, left the organization less than seven months after the announcement and died a year later.
[30][31][32] In July 2023, Packers president Mark Murphy said the team plans to retire Rodgers' number "at the appropriate time".