Alumni update: Al Treml

Al Treml works in the Packers' film library in May 1973.
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When longtime Packers video director goes into the Packers Hall of Fame next summer, he'll be presented for induction by another Packers legend -- Bart Starr.

Treml, 71, is retired and living in Florida these days, and he talked with the local paper -- The Villages' Daily Sun -- about how he came to spend 37 years with the Packers, videotaping practices and games.

It's a good behind-the scenes story.

Packers coach Vince Lombardi hired Treml from WBAY-TV, where his weekly show was taped. Here's what Treml had to say about working for Lombardi:

"Lombardi respected my work. I was intent on not giving any reason for him to yell at me. There were very few people that Lombardi didn't know what their work entailed. He said to me, 'I don't know how you're doing it, but keep doing it.'"

Treml and Starr became friends when Starr was still a player. Starr told the Daily Sun he's been lobbying for Treml's induction for some time, calling it "long overdue."

-- Jeff Ash, jash@greenbaypressgazette.com