Vince Lombardi's offensive captain for three NFL championship teams with the Green Bay Packers has died.
The Packers said that Bob Skoronski, who started at tackle on the NFL title teams in 1961-62 and 1965-67, died at 84 years old after a battle with Alzheimer's disease.
Skoronski started at tackle and at center for the Packers in his years with the Packers, which began in 1959, Lombardi's first year.
In 1965, Lombardi chose him as his offensive captain. Skoronski was a vocal leader in the Lombardi locker room.
"I'm asking every guy to go out here and play his level best for the guys who have had a lot to do with the Green Bay Packers," he once told his teammates through tears before a Packers game late in his career.
In his first three years as offensive captain, the Packers won three consecutive NFL titles, a mark no other franchise has ever matched.
Skoronski started 125 of his 146 games with Green Bay (1956, 1959-68). He made the Pro Bowl in 1966, and joined the Packers Hall of Fame in 1976.
