Bob Harlan, who served as Green Bay Packers president and CEO for almost two decades, has died. He was 89. 

The Packers announced Harlan’s death earlier Thursday, saying his family informed them of his death after a brief illness. Team historian Cliff Christl noted Harlan had recently been hospitalized with pneumonia. 

Current Packers President and CEO Ed Policy released a statement. 

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"The Packers family was saddened to learn of the passing of Bob Harlan," Policy’s statement on social media said.

"Bob was a visionary leader whose impact on the franchise was transformational. From his inspired hiring of Ron Wolf to turn around the club’s on-field fortunes to his tireless work to redevelop Lambeau Field, Bob restored the Packers to competitive excellence during his tenure and helped ensure our unique and treasured flagship NFL franchise was on sound footing for sustained generational success. 

"We send our deepest sympathies to his wife, Madeline, and the entire Harlan family."

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Harlan joined the Packers in 1971, but he wasn’t elected president and CEO until 1989. But after he was elected to lead the publicly owned franchise, he wouldn’t move from the role until retiring in 2008. 

Harlan was pivotal in getting the Packers back to being a consistent winner in the NFL, or, as NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said, he brought the franchise back to its tradition. 

"Bob restored the Packers’ tradition of excellence, winning a Super Bowl and renovating Lambeau Field into the iconic venue it is today," Goodell said in a statement. "He also contributed substantially to our league, helping ensure that all cities, large or small, could be successful."

The Packers had winning seasons from 1992-2004 under Harlan, including a Super Bowl victory in 1997 as Brett Favre, who Wolf acquired from the Atlanta Falcons, led the way throughout those years and more as the franchise quarterback. 

As Policy mentioned, Harlan had a vision for the franchise, which included a $295 million renovation of iconic Lambeau Field. 

"Bob Harlan’s leadership of the Green Bay Packers was outstanding," Favre said in a statement released by the team. "Hiring Ron Wolf and supporting the trade that brought me to Green Bay changed my career. The organization believed in me and gave me the opportunity.

"He was so supportive of me during the challenges I faced in my career. Challenges my family faced, too. He was always there offering his support. He was a great and kind man."

Harlan is also the father of longtime sports broadcaster Kevin Harlan. 

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville condemned Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., for attacking White males during a Wednesday episode of SiriusXM’s "Straight Shooter with Stephen A."

Sports commentator Stephen A. Smith asked James Carville about a recently resurfaced clip from May 2025 where the strategist had challenged Omar to leave the Democratic Party and start her own. Smith asked him to explain what caused this expression of deep frustration. 

Carville replied that Omar has some admirable qualities and is liked by many, "but she started attacking White males, and I'm gonna say, 'Wait a minute, let's stop. Alright.' In 2024, 72% of the people that voted were White. All right? That's just a fact. Of that, 72, probably 48% or 48 and a half, were male."

He then concluded from his calculation that "about 33% of the people that are gonna vote are gonna be White males. Well, it's stupid to attack 33% of the voters!"

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Carville continued, "And so what I would say to Congresswoman Omar, ‘Why don't you be a Democratic Socialist of America?’ Do what AOC did, and then if they win, the truth of that is, I share a lot of ideological issues in common with Congressman Omar, but maybe you should do like a parliamentary government. We'll let you in the governing coalition, but not the electoral coalition."

"But we cannot- we have to get this mentality out that we can win national elections [without] White people, because you can't," Carville said. "That we can somehow or another win an election without White males. It's just insanity. It's literally mathematical insanity, cultural insanity.

Smith, who has become a frequent political commentator himself, asked Carville how he would reply to critics who would say that President Donald Trump is the one who has cultivated a large following of White males.

Carville blasted such critics, arguing that being a White male does not mean that one should be seen as part of a monolith.

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"Because I'm a White male, I'm different than other people?" Carville asked. He went on to blast how, in modern discourse, one of the great failures is that even non-White groups are collectively referred to as people "of-color" as if, even at the scale of multiple racial groups, they could all collectively be seen as a monolith.

"All White people are not the same. All Black people are not the same. All Hispanic people are not the same, all right? " Carville replied. "And I don't like generalizing about someone's gender or their race or their sexual preference or anything else. All gay people are not the same. They're very different personalities. They're very different values, very different everything."

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He then concluded, "And I just don't like, and I know when people say it, that they're trying to be inclusive in their language, but I don't think they stop and think of what they're telling somebody."

Fox News Digital reached out to Rep, Ilhan Omar and did not receive an immediate reply.