Connected sports records
Season reference
Team unit rankings
No ranking is documented for 1974.
| Season | Offense | Defense | Special teams |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | #11 | #22 | #22 |
| 1970 | #16 | #24 | #32 |
| 1971 | #5 | #16 | #11 |
| 1972 | #4 | #1 | #4 |
| 1973 | #1 | #1 | #4 |
| 1975 | #11 | #3 | #7 |
| 1976 | #1 | #4 | #6 |
| 1977 | #9 | #7 | #16 |
| 1978 | #1 | #9 | #15 |
| 1979 | #1 | #10 | #16 |
| 1980 | #4 | #14 | #17 |
| 1981 | #4 | #22 | #11 |
| 1982 | #11 | #29 | #7 |
| 1983 | #13 | #29 | #13 |
Season reference · 1969–1983
Year by year
Rookie season. Packers beat Chiefs 23–7.
Packers beat Colts 24–3.
Packers beat Dolphins 13–6.
Packers beat Dolphins 24–14 after trailing 14–0 entering the fourth quarter. Roger led 24 unanswered points in his signature game.
Packers beat Raiders 32–14.
Final season with Green Bay.
First season with Tampa Bay.
Retired after the season.
01 / Biography
Life and background
Childhood and upbringing
Roger grew up in a normal household in Green Bay.
He was the son of William Hall and the much younger brother of Robert Hall. The large age gap made the brothers part of different football generations while still linking the earliest Hall dynasty branches.
High school and Michigan State
Roger was already a star and major recruit in high school. He played at Michigan State from 1965 through 1969 and entered the draft as an established first-round talent rather than an overlooked prospect.
Green Bay
Green Bay selected Roger 12th overall in 1969. He spent eleven seasons with the Packers and became the franchise most closely associated with his playing identity.
Miami emerged as his primary career rival. Their meetings—and Roger’s ability to remain dangerous late—helped establish the feared-winner reputation that followed him throughout his career.
Contract dispute and Tampa Bay
Roger’s departure from Green Bay in 1980 came from a genuine contract dispute rather than decline. He finished his career with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers from 1980 through 1983, giving his résumé a second franchise chapter without erasing his connection to Green Bay.
Marriage and family
Roger married Denise Hall on December 17, 1977. Their line continued through Patrick Hall Sr. and Patrick Hall Jr.
Roger developed a close childhood bond with Patrick Jr. before his death. The relationship gave his grandson personal memories of Roger in addition to the historical résumé Patrick later set out to surpass.
Denise Hall
Denise was warm, patient and grounded, as well as quiet, thoughtful and observant. She and Roger met at college.
Retirement and later life
After retiring in 1983, Roger largely stepped away from public football life. His later years centered on Denise and the Hall family rather than a regular media role or formal Packers ambassadorship.
Death
Roger Hall died from old age on January 6, 2013, at 67 years old.
02 / Career & Football Identity
The player and the résumé
Roger combined sustained individual dominance with complete championship security: a 158–64–2 regular-season record, a 22–7 playoff record, five MVP awards and a perfect 5–0 Super Bowl résumé.
Super Bowl VIII became his signature performance. With his team trailing 14–0 entering the fourth quarter, Roger led 24 unanswered points and reinforced the belief that no opponent wanted him still on the field late in a close game.
His résumé was not ring-counting alone. Five MVPs established him as one of the defining individual quarterbacks of his era, while the perfect championship record made later statistical inflation less capable of pushing him out of the historical top tier.
03 / Personality
The person behind the record
Roger was grounded, talkative, sarcastic and intensely competitive. He was comfortable saying exactly what he thought, sometimes continuing an argument well after silence would have been smarter.
Unlike Jaxson, the talking never consumed his identity. Roger did not need to call himself the GOAT to feel secure in his greatness.
He placed himself roughly fifth to seventh historically while still calling Mac Walls the greatest quarterback ever. That combination of confidence and perspective defined how he discussed rankings.
04 / Relationships
People in the record
05 / Legacy & Analysis
What the life and résumé mean
He is the secure, outspoken center of the Hall dynasty: confident enough to defend his own era and résumé without manufacturing a claim above Mac.
The 1980 contract dispute is the major disruption in an otherwise stable career and explains why a player so closely identified with Green Bay finished in Tampa Bay.
His perfect Super Bowl record and five MVP awards make him resistant to arguments that later eras simply passed him through volume.