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FOOTBALL SUPPORT STAFFBOB ECKBERGVIDEO DIRECTORFOOTBALLVETERANS SUPPORT COMMUNITYNow in his 10th season asGreen Bay’s video director, BobEckberg is enjoying his 29thyear with the Packers overall.In 2001, Eckberg became only the second full-timevideo director in franchise history.Having served as Green Bay’s assistant video directorsince 1982, he had taken over for the retired Al Treml,who since 1967 had headed up the club’s filming/tapingoperations.In his position, Eckberg oversees the production and editingof all game and practice tapes for the coaching and personnelstaffs, as well as the regular exchange of video withother teams. In addition, he is in charge of the purchase andmaintenance of the team’s vast array of video equipment.The 59-year-old Eckberg also directs the video department’staping of all workouts on prospective players andmaintains a video library of all games for the previousthree years. Additionally, the video staff compiles collegeplayer profile tapes for use during NFL Draft preparation.Eckberg also attends and shoots video of prospective playersat the NFL Scouting Combine, held every February inIndianapolis.Eckberg began his career with the Packers in the early1970s while working in the photo department of WBAY-TV in Green Bay. While employed at the station, Eckberghelped process all of the Packers’ game film and in 1976started shooting end-zone angle coaching film for homegames played in Green Bay and Milwaukee. In the early1980s, videotape technology became standard in the televisionindustry, and in 1982 the Packers purchased thefilm-lab setup from WBAY and hired Eckberg as assistantvideo director.In addition to almost three decades of NFL games, Eckbergalso has shot numerous postseason games, includingthe 1987 Hula Bowl, the 1982, 1987 and 2001 SeniorBowls, the 2005 Cactus Bowl, the 2008 Pro Bowl, and SuperBowls XXXI and XXXII. In addition, he served the NFLvideo directors during the 2000 season as a member of thequality control committee.Born Oct. 10, 1950, in Green Bay, Eckberg is a 1969graduate of the city’s Premontre High School. He and hiswife, Terri, also a Green Bay native, enjoy spending timewith their children and grandchildren at their family cabinin northern Wisconsin.LAMBEAU RECORDS &DRAFT &MISC. FIELD HISTORY 2009 REVIEW FREE AGENTSCurtis Fuller, a former GreenBay Packers safety in 2003-04, enters his second year as amember of the coaching staff, and his first in his new roleof coaching administrator. He initially rejoined the team onJan. 15, 2009, as a special teams assistant coach.In his current position, Fuller’s responsibilities includeassisting in the preparation of the team’s weekly gameplan, preparing game film, and compiling player statisticsand grades. Shifting his on-field responsibilities to the defensiveside of the ball, he will now assist in coaching thesecondary.The 32-year-old Fuller spent the 2008 training campwith the Packers through the NFL’s Minority Coaching InternshipProgram. His first full-time NFL coaching positionwas in Oakland, where he was a special teams quality controlassistant for the Raiders in 2007. Following the 2008training camp in Green Bay, he worked as the defensivecoordinator and secondary coach for Plano East (Texas)Senior High.Prior to his year in Oakland, Fuller worked in the scoutingdepartment for the Dallas Cowboys, and he began hiscoaching career at his two alma maters, as a volunteercoach on defense at Texas Christian University and as thedefensive coordinator at Fort Worth Christian High, whereFuller as a prep helped lead his team to an 11-3 record andsecond-place finish in the state polls in 1995.CURTIS FULLERCOACHING ADMINISTRATORA fourth-round draft choice of the Seattle Seahawks in2001, Fuller played two seasons there before joining thePackers in 2003. In the 2003-04 seasons, he played 10games in Green Bay as a reserve defensive back and specialteamer before finishing his playing career in 2004 withthe Carolina Panthers. He played a total of 42 games inhis career, posting 52 tackles (39 solo). He also had oneinterception, with Seattle in 2002.Fuller was a two-time All-Western Athletic Conferenceselection at TCU, where he was a key figure on a defensethat led the nation in his senior season of 2000 by allowingonly 245 yards and 9.6 points per game.Fuller started 32 of 33 career games at TCU from 1998-2000 after transferring from Tyler (Texas) Junior College.He had three career interceptions for the Horned Frogs afterposting nine during his one season (1997) at Tyler.A conference all-academic pick at TCU, Fuller earned abachelor’s degree in psychology and a master’s in liberalarts by the time he was drafted in 2001. He worked severalyears as an intern for Frito-Lay. During his college andpro playing career, Fuller also traveled multiple times toMexico with high school youth groups to help constructchurches and homes in small villages.Born July 5, 1978, in Tyler, Texas, Fuller and hiswife, Rachel, reside in Green Bay, and have two children,Carolina, 4, and Anthony, 1. In his spare time he enjoysplaying golf.60