With the series covering Green Bay’s first-round selections since 2000 concluding, I am sticking with the draft theme, but moving to a different side of it. This week, I am going to talk about the best late-round draft selections made by Green Bay in the team’s history. Any selections made from round five and later […]
NFL History
Would Wrestling at Practice Perk Up Green Bay Packers Play?
Shortly after I finished the fourth grade at Carlton Middle School in Milwaukee, my family moved 20 miles west, to the “bedroom community” of Pewaukee in 1970. A few days later I would be introduced to the sport of wrestling by the Watt brothers (Al, Jerry and John) in their back yard. Al and Jerry […]
The 1919 Green Bay Packers: The Start of Something Special
Per Wikipedia, the tradition of football in Green Bay, Wisconsin goes back to 1896, earlier than any other NFL team. On the other hand, the Green Bay Packers organization recognizes 1919 as the first year of “competitive football” for the team, even though the Green Bay Packers were not affiliated with an association or a […]
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