Naturally, the Green Bay Packers beat the hated Chicago Bears in the first game ever played at Lambeau Field. How else could the National Football League s most storied stadium possibly begin? In the half century since Gary Knafelc caught Babe Parilli s fourth-quarter touchdown pass to stun the heavily favored Bears, Lambeau Field has been the scene of countless thrills for fans from coast to coast. Brett Favre to Kittrick Taylor for 35 yards and the first touchdown in a Hall of Fame quarterback s unparalleled career; the Packers and the Washington Redskins trading punches in a record shattering 48-47 Monday Night slugfest; Vince Lombardi being carried off the field after his first heart stopping victory as a head coach; Ron Wolf near tears in the end zone as the Packers return to glory; and of course, Bart Starr plunging over the goal line to end the historic Ice Bowl. The place they called City Stadium when it was built for the princely sum of $967,000 is celebrating its 50th birthday, and ranking its most golden memories is a daunting task. But Cliff Christl and Dale Hofmann have taken it on and relived them all in The 25 Greatest Moments in Lambeau Field History. Their painstaking research, first hand accounts from players and coaches and a dramatic collection of color and black and white photos put the reader right back in the stands. Nothing has been overlooked in this inside account of the best Lambeau Field has to offer. It s a keepsake that all true Packer fans will want for their libraries.

The 25 Greatest Moments In Lambeau Field History

Cliff Christl

Dale Hofmann

KCI Sports Publishing

Something exceptional happens every day on Wisconsin s incredibly rich sports scene whether everyone knows about it or not. It could be a playoff game at Lambeau Field or a storied high school rivalry or an Olympic event involving a local athlete halfway around the world. There are thousands of fascinating tales, and Cliff Christl and Dale Hofmann have chosen the most intriguing of them for their book 365: The Best Wisconsin Sports Stories Day by Day. Christl and Hofmann bring more than 70 years of combined Wisconsin daily newspaper experience to the job of finding the No. 1 story fore each calendar day. Whether it s as recent as Brett Favre s return to Green Bay as a Minnesota Viking or as historical as Borchert Field opening in Milwaukee in 1889, it s all Wisconsin, and it s all there in 365.

365 The Best Wisconsin Sports Stories Day By Day

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The Packers Heritage Trail: The Town, The Team, The Fans From Lambeau to Lombardi tells the improbable story of how the Green Bay Packers miraculously survived and, even more miraculously, attained unmatched success against their big-city rivals over their first 50 years.
 The book bridges two eras of unequaled dominance in the NFL and two coaching legends, Curly Lambeau and Vince Lombardi. It also weaves throughout the richly romantic side of this story: How the Packers became a community property, owned and beloved by their fans in a one-of-a-kind town.
 The Packers can lay claim to a history unlike any other team in professional sports. This book tells it in more detail and more accurately than it has ever been told before.
 The city of Boston, the Cradle of Liberty, has its Freedom Trail. In football-crazed Green Bay, a Cradle of the National Football League, there is the Packers Heritage Trail with its resplendent downtown plaza and 25 landmarks with commemorative plaques. Most of the sites where Packers history unfolded from 1919, the year Lambeau co-founded the team, through 1968, Lombardi s final season in Green Bay, are still standing in some form and comprise the Packers Heritage Trail.
 The Packers Heritage Trail book tells about the team s hardscrabble start on the fields of Hagemeister Park and City Stadium, examines the bizarre and never-before-told story about the packing plants that sponsored the Packers in the beginning, and takes you behind the scenes at some of the most momentous and sometimes discordant meetings where franchise-changing decisions were made.
 The Packers are a unique franchise. This book takes a unique look at their history that makes it a must-have for all fans of the Green &amp; Gold.

Packers Heritage Trail: The Town, The Team, The Fans From Lambeau to Lombardi

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