Best Green Bay Packers player to wear No. 35 gave team a unique win over the Bears

Welcome back to Lombardi Ave's series on the greatest Green Bay Packers players to wear every jersey number from No. 0 to No. 99.

We're just going to be honest from the get-go here. While a lot of numbers have a strong legacy for the Green & Gold, No. 35 just isn't one of them. That's not meant to disrespect anyone who's worn it over the years, but facts are facts, folks. Nevertheless, we've still got a job to do, so let's get to the list.

Roger Ashmore, OT
Frank Balazs, FB/LB/DB
Corey Ballentine, CB
Frank Butler, OL/LB
Ibraheim Campbell, S
Dave Conway, K
Bob Flowers, C/LB
Samkon Gado, RB
Jay Graham, RB
Michael Haddix, FB
Korey Hall, RB
Lucas Havrisik, K
Allen Jacobs, RB
Glenn Johnson, OT
Frank Mestnik, FB
Walt Michaels, G
Tom Nash, E
Eddie Pleasant, S
Ken Radick, E
Del Rodgers, RB
Ed Smith, B
Clayton Tonnemaker, LB
Dom Vairo, E
Jermaine Whitehead, S
Kevin Willhite, RB
Ray Wilson, S

As you can see, this just isn't an overly strong group, and this is one of the few lists we've had up to this point not to feature one single member of the Packers Hall of Fame.

That said, there are a few players that deserve mentioning, one being kicker Lucas Havrisik, who may have only played three games with the Packers in 2025 when Brandon McManus went down with an injury, but set a new record for the longest field goal in team history, connecting on a 61-yarder against the Arizona Cardinals. So, that's fun.

A few others that stand out a touch are linebacker Clayton Tonnemaker, who earned an All-Pro selection wearing the number in 1950, running backs Michael Haddix and Samkon Godo, each of whom put together a couple of solid campaigns, and Del Rodgers, who was a running back as well but also contributed nicely as a kick returner in the early 1980s.

In the end, though, we're going old school once again with three-time NFL champion end Tom Nash.

Tom Nash gave the Green Bay Packers a 2-0 victory over the Chicago Bears in 1932 on a blocked-punt safety

A consensus All-American at Georgia in 1927, Nash joined the Packers in 1928 and started six of the eight games in which he appeared.

Now, back then, it's no secret that NFL offenses were all about the running game. So, it's not as if too many ends filled the stat sheet on a week-to-week basis. Nevertheless, Nash knew his role as a blocker and did it well, and he did contribute a touchdown in 1929, which was the season Green Bay won the first of three consecutive NFL titles. He chipped in another in 1930 en route to earning Second-Team All-Pro honors.

We do have to mention that, like pretty much every player in those days, he wore several different numbers throughout his career, donning three different digits in those first three seasons, wearing No. 21 in 1928, No. 19 in 1929, and No. 37 in 1930.

But he wore No. 35 in 1931 in helping the Packers to a third title and then again in 1932, which turned out to be his final season with the team and the one in which he earned a First-Team All-Pro selection. But it's not his offense we're going to focus on for that '32 season, as again, like so many players back then, he also played some defense and special teams. And in one historic matchup, it was his skills as a defender that helped Green Bay to its most unique victory of all time.

In Week 2 of the 1932 season, the Packers and the rival Chicago Bears battled to a 0-0 tie at City Stadium. And through the first quarter of the rematch a few weeks later in Week 5 at Wrigley Field, the two clubs still hadn't put any points on the board against one another.

But that all changed in the second quarter when Nash broke through the Bears' line and blocked a punt through the back of the end zone for a safety, thus giving the Packers a 2-0 lead. And those were literally the only points put on the scoreboard that day.

To this day, that remains the only 2-0 victory in Green Bay history. Wildly enough, of the only five games in NFL history that have ended in that score, the Packers have been involved in three of them. In 1928, they lost by that score to the Frankford Yellow Jackets. And even more wild is the fact that the last one of these to take place was in 1938, when the Bears got their 2-0 win back.

But getting back to Nash, that was one of two safeties he recorded that season, and even after all these years, less than 25 players have recorded more in a career, let alone a single season. He closed his NFL career playing two seasons with the Brooklyn Dodgers.

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Tom Nash gave the Green Bay Packers a 2-0 victory over the Chicago Bears in 1932 on a blocked-punt safety

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