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Packers Green, gold and glory

Book - 2013

Green Bay has a history like no other city in the National Football League. Here the passion runs deep and true through generations of fans, and the success has been unparalleled: 13 championships, 22 Hall of Fame players, a past festooned with grand names such as Lambeau and Lombardi and Nitschke. Not surprisingly, the Packers have won the admiration of fans the world over, and Sports Illustrated celebrates the franchise with this collection of new and classic stories and photographs.

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Subjects
Green Bay Packers (Football team)
Green Bay Packers (Football team) > History.
Published
New York : Sports Illustrated Books, an imprint of Time Home Entertainment Inc c2013.
Language
English
Physical Description
176 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 31 cm
ISBN
9781618930385
  • The people's champions
  • You can feel the excitement
  • The players
  • The title games
  • Packer reader
  • The covers.
Review by Library Journal Review

The Green Bay Packers are one of a handful of NFL teams that enjoy a truly national following. It is not surprising that Sports Illustrated is mining its impressive text and photo archives to produce its version of an illustrated team history. In addition to sections on the 33 best players and a dozen title games, the book recycles five memorable articles from the magazine: on the town itself, on the Packers' Depression-era Runyanesque player Johnny "Blood" McNally, on the return of Bart Starr as a coach, on the coming of Brett Favre, and on the 2011 Super Bowl win. The mostly color photographs are artfully selected and reproduced to invite happy reverie for Packer fans. However, the 20-page section of photographs of decked-out fans at Lambeau Field is space that could have been better inhabited by more team coverage. VERDICT This will be of interest to Packer fans everywhere. (c) Copyright 2013. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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