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If These Walls Could Talk: Green Bay Packers: Stories from the Green Bay Packers Sideline, Locker Room, and Press Box

Wayne Larrivee - Triumph Books LLC
Format: Print book

The Green Bay Packers are one of the most successful teams in the NFL, with 13 world championships and four Super Bowl wins. Authors Wayne Larrivee and Rob Reischel through interviews with current and past players, provide fans with a one-of-a-kind, insider's look into the great moments,...
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Facing the Green Bay Packers: Players Recall the Glory Years of the Team from Titletown, USA

Chuck Carlson
Format: Paperback

Over the course of nearly one hundred years, just a handful of NFL teams have enjoyed success across multiple decades. There's absolutely no doubt which franchise the fans in Wisconsin would put at the top of the list.Most Packers fans are familiar with the greatest player
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The 1966 Green Bay Packers: Profiles of Vince Lombardi's Super Bowl I Champions

George Bozeka
Format: Paperback

The 1966 Green Bay Packers were one of the greatest teams in professional football history. Led by legendary head coach Vince Lombardi and 10 future Hall of Famers--including Bart Starr, Jim Taylor, Forrest Gregg, Willie Davis and Ray Nitschke--they were the decisive winners of Su
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Green & Gold Memories: Growing up in Vince Lombardi's Green Bay

Roger Dier - Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Format: Print book

From Roger Dier Productions, LLC Relive the glory years of Vince Lombardi's Green Bay Packers with the nostalgic new memoir, Green & Gold Memories.Author Roger Dier seamlessly blends poignant childhood memories growing up in Green Bay, Wisconsin, with the breathless excitement...
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The NFL in the 1970s: Pro Football's Most Important Decade

Joe Zagorski - McFarland & Company
Format: Print book

The 1970 merger between the American Football League and the National Football League laid the foundation for a stronger brand of gridiron competition, providing a new level of excitement for fans. This book examines each year of the NFL's pivotal decade in detail, covering the great...
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Vince Lombardi on Leadership: Life Lessons from a Five-Time NFL Championship Coach

Pat Williams - Advantage
Format: Print book

VINCE LOMBARDI'S LEADERSHIP PRINCIPLES:* Envision a successful future -- then chart a course to get there.* Communicate your vision with passion and conviction.* Know the people you lead; find out what motivates each one.* Lead with character and integrity.* Inspire confidence...
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Green Bay Packers: Where Have You Gone?

Chuck Carlson - Sports Publishing
Format: Print book

With a few exceptions, there is little else that is more important to the typical resident of Wisconsin than the Green Bay Packers. These fans will endure an Arctic freeze, a torrential downpour, or a sweltering August night to watch their beloved Packers. As the famed Lambeau Leap symbolizes,...
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Tales from the Green Bay Packers Sideline: A Collection of the Greatest Packers Stories Ever Told

Chuck Carlson - Sports Publishing
Format: Print book

Since their dominance of professional football in the 1960s, the Green Bay Packers have reemerged as one of the elite teams in the NFL, with Super Bowl championships in 1996 and 2010. The victory and legend of Green Bay Packers continues in Chuck Carlson's Tales from the Green Bay Packers...
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Run to Daylight!: Vince Lombardi's Diary of One Week with the Green Bay Packers

Vince Lombardi - Simon & Schuster
Format: Book

In the golden years of professional football, one team and one coach reigned supreme: the 1960s Green Bay Packers, and the fiery Vince Lombardi.Run to Daylight! is Lombardi's own diary of a week at the helm of that magnificent club. Together with legendary sports-journalist, W.C....
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Packers Pride: Green Bay Greats Share Their Favorite Memories

LeRoy Butler - Triumph Books
Format: Book

For more than 90 years, the Green Bay Packers have been the model of excellence across the National Football League. Now, LeRoy Butler - a 12-year veteran and one of the most popular Packers ever to don the uniform - teams up with Rob Reischel to tell the stories of the Packers' most memorable...
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PACKERS: Green, Gold and Glory

Editors of Sports Illustrated - Sports Illustrated Books
Format: Book

Celebrate the championship heritage, great players and passionate fanbase that make Titletown, U.S.A. the most coveted address in football

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,...
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Driven: From Homeless to Hero, My Journeys On and Off Lambeau Field

Donald Driver - Random House Inc
Format: Book

The legendary NFL receiver, all-time receptions and yards leader for the Green Bay Packers, and Dancing with the Stars champion looks back on his life and career. When he was picked in the seventh-round of 1999 NFL draft, Donald Driver couldn't find Green Bay on a map. He was given little...
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100 Things Packers Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die

Rob Reischel - Triumph Books
Format: Paperback

Pulling from Packers history since the team's inception in 1919, this guide to all things gold and green offers dedicated fans all of the stats, trivia, and miscellaneous, fun-filled information craved about this storied franchise. From the significance of 4th and 26 and the best place...
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Lombardi's Left Side

Herb Adderley - Ascend Books
Format: Book

Winning was not the only thing. Something more important than winning football games occurred during the Lombardi Dynasty. Vince Lombardis Green Bay Packers ushered the National Football League to the forefront of American sports popularity during a racially explosive time, proving that...
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Bart Starr: America's Quarterback and the Rise of the National Football League

Keith Dunnavant - St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Book

A powerful biography of one of the greatest football players of all time, in the spirit of Namath and Johnny UNo quarterback in the history of the NFL can match Bart Starr's record of achievement. In an unprecedented seven-season run from 1961-67, Starr led the Green Bay Packers...
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Closing the Gap: Lombardi, the Packers Dynasty, and the Pursuit of Excellence

Willie Davis - Triumph Books
Format: Book

Describing how NFL great Willie Davis helped define the hard-nosed, in-your-face defense of the original football dynasty, the 1960s Green Bay Packers, this revealing autobiography also illustrates his persona off the field - humble yet ambitious, with an infectious smile and a reputation...
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Aaron Rodgers: Leader of the Pack: An Intimate Portrait of a Super Bowl MVP

Rob Reischel - Triumph Books
Format: Book

The life of Aaron Rodgers, quarterback of the Super Bowl XLV champion Green Bay Packers, is a remarkable story of patience, perseverance, and resolve. Relive this journey to greatness - highlighted by leading the Packers to a record 13th NFL championship. Written by award-winning journalist...
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Life After Favre: The Green Bay Packers and their Fans Usher in the Aaron Rodgers Era

Phil Hanrahan - Skyhorse
Format: Paperback

Wisconsin native Phil Hanrahan moved from Los Angeles to Green Bay to chronicle the Packers 2008 football campaign, the first season in seventeen years without quarterback Brett Favre. He is there as new starting quarterback Aaron Rodgers begins what one football writer called "the...
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Return to Titletown: The Remarkable Story of the 2010 Green Bay Packers

Chuck Carlson - Triumph Books
Format: Book

Packed with stunning action photography, stories, and analysis, Return to Titletown takes fans through Green Bay's amazing journey, from their season-opening win over Michael Vick and the Eagles to B.J. Raji's dash to the Soldier Field end zone to clinch the NFC title to Aaron Rodgers'...
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Green Bay Packers: The Complete Illustrated History - Third Edition

Don Gulbrandsen
Format: Book

ThePackers are world champions once again, and Green Bay Packers: The Complete Illustrated History is the ultimate, authoritative look at this storied and beloved sports franchise. In addition to offering a comprehensive history of the team and in-depth profiles of its grea
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Winning in the Trenches: A Lifetime of Football

Forrest Gregg - Clerisy Press
Format: Book

Winning in the Trenches is a fascinating glimpse of a bygone era in professional football from one of the players who epitomized it. With candor, insight, and love for the game, Forrest Gregg takes the reader through a playing career that began in 1956 with the Green Bay Packers...
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Green and Golden Moments: Bob Harlan and the Green Bay Packers

Bob Harlan - KCI Sports
Format: Book

If ever a sports franchise could afford to run on cruise control, the Green Bay Packers could, with their guaranteed sellouts and 65,000-person season ticket waiting list. But Bob Harlan never let that happen. Harlan joined the team in 1971, was elected as its president in 1989 and became...
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Lombardi and Me: Players, Coaches, and Colleagues Talk About the Man and the Myth

Paul/ Reed Billy Hornung - Independent Pub Group
Format: Paperback

[Note: the text of Vince Lombardi's 'Farewell Speech' in Janesville, Wisconsin on 02/25/1969 is included in this book, and our library has the audio cd of the speech available for check out!] Explaining the legendary Vince Lombardi through the words of the men who knew...
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The Glory of Titletown: The Classic Green Bay Packers Photography of Vernon Biever

Vernon J Biever - Taylor Trade Co.
Format: Paperback

There is no one who knows the Green Bay Packers story better than the man who has caught every tackle, touchdown and interception with a click of his shutter. Now in paperback, more than 150 of the best photos from Vernon Biever's historic archive have been gathered into one keepsake volume....
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Favre

Brett Favre - Rugged Land
Format: Hardcover

Just one day after losing his father, Irvin Favre, to a heart attack and fatal car crash, Brett Favre took the field for a Monday Night Football game against the notorious Oakland Raiders. Even with the Green Bay Packers clinging to a slim chance for a playoff spot, his teammates...
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Favre: For the Record

Brett Favre - Doubleday
Format: Book

Superstar Green Bay Packer quarterback Brett Favre has the arm of Dan Marino, the agility of Steve Young, the field presence of Joe Montana and the brashness of Jim McMahon. Born the son of an indomitable high school football coach in hardscrabble Kiln, Mississippi, Favre has gone on to become...
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