The Green Bay Packers’ No. 60 doesn’t belong to the flashiest name on the board, but it does belong to one of the most consequential. That honor goes to linebacker Lee Roy Caffey, a player tied to two of the most famous trades in team history and to three of the Packers’ biggest rivals.
Before Caffey became the answer, the number had a few notable wearers. John Anderson, who showed up near the top of the list, wore No. 60 as a rookie in 1978 before switching to No. 59 for the rest of his 12-year career.
Anderson later made the Pro Football Hall of Fame’s 1980s All-Decade Team and reached the Packers Hall of Fame. Pro Football Hall of Famer Walt Kiesling also wore No. 60, but only during his two seasons in Green Bay in 1935 and 1936, and just in the title-winning ’36 season.
Caffey, though, is the clear pick. After starring at Texas A&M, he was selected by the Philadelphia Eagles in the seventh round of the 1963 NFL Draft with the 88th overall pick. The Houston Oilers also drafted him in the fourth round of the 1963 AFL Draft at No. 25 overall, but he chose the NFL.
He made an immediate impression in Philadelphia, earning All-Rookie Team honors before being shipped to Green Bay in the blockbuster deal that sent legendary center Jim Ringo to the Eagles. Ringo had just helped the Packers win back-to-back titles in 1961 and 1962 and later landed in Canton.
Vince Lombardi already had a good look at Caffey from the College All-Star Team’s 20-17 win over Green Bay in the summer of 1963, and when the chance came to get him, he took it.
The trade worked exactly as hoped. Caffey became a key piece of a Packers defense that helped power three straight NFL championships from 1965 to 1967.
Those last two titles sent Green Bay to the first two Super Bowls, and the Packers won both. Caffey made the Pro Bowl in 1965 and was a First-Team All-Pro in 1966, the first of those Super Bowl-winning seasons.
He started 79 of his 83 regular-season games with Green Bay and seven postseason games, including all of those title contests.
After six productive seasons in Green Bay, Caffey was dealt to the rival Chicago Bears in 1970 in a trade that brought the Packers the No. 2 overall pick in that year’s draft. Green Bay used that pick on defensive lineman Mike McCoy.
Caffey spent one season in Chicago before another trade sent him to the Dallas Cowboys, where he won a third Super Bowl ring to finish the 1971 season. He wrapped up his career with one year with the then-San Diego Chargers in 1972. He was also set to be traded again, this time to the Pittsburgh Steelers, but chose retirement instead.
Caffey was inducted into the Packers Hall of Fame in 1986.
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