Jim Ringo
James Stephen Ringo (November 21, 1931 – November 19, 2007) was a professional American football player, a Hall of Fame center and coach. He was a ten-time Pro Bowler during his career.
Ringo grew up in Phillipsburg, New Jersey and played high school football at Phillipsburg High School. He went on to play college football at Syracuse University.
Professional career
Green Bay Packers
The Packers drafted him in the seventh round of the 1953 NFL Draft out of Syracuse. Ringo was considered vastly undersized at 211 pounds.
He was not, however, unfit for the role, using his outstanding quickness and excellent technique to build a 15-year NFL career, including 11 seasons with the Packers, as one of the game's best centers.
Ringo played for four different head coaches in his Packers tenure. In his first six seasons in Green Bay, playing under Gene Ronzani (1953), Lisle Blackbourn (1954–57) and Ray "Scooter" McLean (1958), the Packers went 20-50-2 (.291).
But Vince Lombardi's arrival in 1959 changed everything, and for Ringo's next five seasons the Packers went 50-15-1 (.765) and 2-1 in championship games. Ringo certainly knew individual success before the Lombardi era, attending his first of seven straight Pro Bowls in 1957,but he flourished under the coaching legend, earning consensus All-Pro honors from 1959-63.
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ALBUMS
- That'll Flat Git It, Volume 5: Dot Records released: 1997
That'll Flat Git It, Volume 5: Dot Records
Released 1997- Circle Rock
- Love Me
- Carry On
- Lonesome for a Letter
- Big Door
- Skinny Minnie
- Doggonit
- Step Up and Go
- Oh, My Baby's Gone
- Rock-Sock the Boogie
- I'm Low Low Low
- Call Me Shorty
- Pucker Paint
- You're Late Miss Kate
- It's All Over
- Boogie Woogie Bill
- You Heard Me Knocking
- Mary Lou
- I Like This Kind of Music
- Trapped Love
- Playboy
- Chicken Shack
- Ballroom Baby
- That's the Way I Feel
- Johnny, Johnny, Johnny
- It Ain't Me
- Come on Baby
- Put Me Down
- Let's Flat Get It
- Henrietta
- Love Me
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