The Green Bay Packers have named Dan “Bogie” Bogenschuetz as the 26th inductee into the team’s Fan Hall of Fame. The announcement came this Monday morning, honoring the well-known green-and-gold booster who’s been hosting trips of fans wherever the Packers might play for the past 36 years. Nine other finalists, mostly from Wisconsin but as far away as Colorado Springs, Colorado to the west, and Severn, Maryland on the east, were nominated for this year’s honor. Bogenschuetz was selected by the public through an online vote, but the final decision was up to the Green Bay Packers’ Board of Directors.
WHBL caught up with Bogie just as he sat down with friends at the departure point for many of the trips he’s organized for fans to see their team in action, telling us: “We just pulled into Tommy’s bar here in town and we’re buying everybody one drink, and the bus is sittin’ outside the bar waiting for us.”
For some of those games covering many decades the bus was only the first leg of the trip. “This was my 36th year, and there’s not many games at Lambeau…most of the games are on the road. Even this last year we did London.”
As the most recent inductee into the Packers’ Fan Hall of Fame Bogenscheutz will be receiving four club seats to a 2024 home game along with four pre-game sideline passes, four passes to the Packers Hall of Fame, a custom Packers jersey, a $500 Pro Gift Shop certificate and a one-year subscription to PackersNews.com. But the highlight will likely be something he doesn’t take away from Lambeau Field – a plaque with his name will be installed in the largest such establishment in the NFL, and in true “Bogie” fashion, a trip for that is already being planned.
“The day my plaque with my name actually goes into the hall of fame I’m definitely gonna bring a bus up there so we can all witness it at the same time.”
With you giving away tickets for many years to many children so they could see a Packer game will get my vote without any problem. Congratulations & well deserved!