The Green Bay Packers made a truly wise decision in the early 1990s when they decided on Bob Harlan to be the team’s president and CEO. Harlan was instrumental in revitalizing a franchise that had been mediocre for more than two decades, both by hiring the right general manager (Ron Wolf) to fix the on-field product and by making some excellent decisions about Lambeau Field and the area around it.
When Harlan retired in 2008, he did so with a Super Bowl ring and with a legacy that will be difficult to match.
His successor, Mark Murphy, is fast approaching the end of his own tenure in that role, and history will likely look back at him as someone who tried to continue the momentum that Harlan built before him.