Green Bay Packers: Yesterday & Today - Hardcover

West Side Publishing; Carlson, Chuck

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1412761166 ISBN 13: 9781412761161

Publisher: Publications International, Ltd., 2009

Synopsis

As you will discover when you read "Green Bay Packers: Yesterday & Today", the history of this fabled franchise began on a hot August night in 1919. That s when sportswriter George Calhoun and local star athlete Curly Lambeau met at a pub to discuss starting a pro football team in the small Wisconsin town of Green Bay. Today, the Packers are a cornerstone of the NFL and one of the most recognizable sports teams in the world. From the shrine known as Lambeau Field to landmark moments to generations of players highlighted by the likes of Cal Hubbard, Don Hutson, Arnie Herber, Ray Nitschke, Bart Starr, Paul Hornung, Herb Adderley, Sterling Sharpe, Reggie White, Brett Favre, and Donald Driver. 'Green Bay Packers: Yesterday & Today' is the ultimate Packers chronicle.

Richly detailed and lavishly illustrated with photos, memorabilia, and clippings from the Green Bay Press-Gazette, this book starts by describing an era when a small Midwestern city with mettle and a little luck could create a championship-caliber team. It tells how an Easterner Vince Lombardi brought a ruthless work ethic and a singular personality to the Packers golden age of the 1950s and 1960s. How Lombardi s handpicked successor, Phil Bengtson, and then Starr and Dan Devine couldn't t duplicate the legendary coach s success on the sideline. And how coach Mike Holmgren and Favre returned the Super Bowl trophy to Titletown in the 1990s.

In 'Green Bay Packers: Yesterday & Today', you will read about:

The Ice Bowl of 1967, when 50,000 Packers faithful braved a 13-degree temperature to watch their team beat the Cowboys for the NFL title, setting up Green Bay s second Super Bowl championship two weeks later
Don Majkowski, who for three seasons was the swaggering, rakish embodiment of what an NFL quarterback should be
Some of the tragedy surrounding the team, such as the untimely death of White
The curious and contentious departure of Favre, who retired as a Packer but then unretired to play for the Jets and the Vikings
The attempts of current players such as Favre s successor at quarterback, Aaron Rodgers to return the franchise to glory

These are just some of the hundreds of people, stories, and events that are chronicled in "Green Bay Packers: Yesterday & Today", a must-have for any fan of football.

About this title

About the Author

Chuck Carlson has been an award-winning sports journalist for three decades, working at newspapers in Maryland, Virginia, Washington, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Nevada. For 10 years, he primarily covered the Green Bay Packers, along with University of Wisconsin sports, for the Post-Crescent in Appleton, Wisconsin. Chuck has written several books on the Packers, including Titletown Again; The Green Bay Packers Pocket Primer; Tales from the Packer Sideline, and Brett Favre: America s Quarterback.

Jerry Kramer played for the Green Bay Packers from 1958 to 1968 and was an integral part of the famous "Packers Sweep." Kramer has coauthored four highly acclaimed books, including a volume on his coach entitled Lombardi: Winning Is the Only Thing Inside the Locker Room. Kramer's secret recordings of Vince Lombardi's locker room talks is available on CD.

Edition details

• Publisher: Publications International, Ltd.
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1412761166
• ISBN 13: 9781412761161
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 160