Green Bay Packers Yesterday and Today (Yesterday & Today) Book

As you'll discover when you read Green Bay Packers: Yesterday & Today, the history of this fabled franchise began on a hot August night in 1919. 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 newspaper, 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. And how coach Mike Holmgren and quarterback Brett Favre returned the Super Bowl trophy to Titletown in the 1990s.In Green Bay Packers: Yesterday & Today, you'll read about:The "Ice Bowl" of 1967, when 50,000 Packers faithful braved a minus-13-degree temperature to watch their team beat the Dallas Cowboys for the NFL title, setting up Green Bay's second Super Bowl championship two weeks later.The curious and contentious departure of Favre, who retired as a Packer but then unretired to play for the New York Jets and the Minnesota Vikings.The attempts of current players—such as Favre's successor at quarterback, Aaron Rodgers—to return the franchise to glory.Read More