How will Packers honor McGee?

The Packers haven't made any announcement about how, when -- or even whether, for that matter -- they'll pay tribute to Max McGee, the former player and broadcaster who died Saturday.

You'd think the most likely honor would be a No. 85 helmet decal, much like the No. 3 worn for the last six games of the 2003 season after Tony Canadeo died in November of that year, and the No. 92 worn for the rest of the 2004 season after Reggie White died in December of that year.

We were e-mailed this interesting notion for a tribute to Max McGee: "Greg Jennings would endear himself to Cheeseheads everywhere if he would change the name on his jersey to 'McGee' for just one game: the next one at Lambeau."

Jennings, of course, wears No. 85 for the Packers, as did McGee. However, when McGee played, there were no names on the backs of the players' jerseys.

Perhaps a more appropriate tribute would be for Jennings to play the next home game with no name on the back of his jersey.

First, it would be historically accurate. Second, you could see it as the football equivalent of a missing-man formation -- 10 players with names on their jerseys, and one without.

Another idea from an e-mailer: Sell a special No. 85 jersey with McGee's name on the back at the Packers Pro Shop, with proceeds going to the Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, where he established the Max McGee National Research Center for Juvenile Diabetes.

Still another idea from another e-mailer: Name the Lambeau Field radio booth for McGee.

-- Jeff Ash, jash@greenbaypressgazette.com