The People's Team: An Illustrated History of the Green Bay Packers

The definitive lavishly illustrated history of the Green Bay Packers commemorating the teams 100-year anniversary Not only are the Packers the only fan-owned team in any of North Americas major pro sports leagues but Green Baypopulation 104 057is also the smallest city with a big-time franchise. The Packers are in other words unlikely candidates to be pro footballs preeminent team. And yet nobody in the NFL has won more championships. The story of Titletown USA is the greatest story in sports. Through extensive archival research and unmatched insider access to players and team officials past and present Mark Beech tells the first complete rags-to-riches history of the Green Bay Packers a full chronicle of the most illustrious team in NFL history. The Peoples Team paints compelling pictures of a franchise a town and a fan base. No other team in pro sports is so bound to the place that gave birth to it. Here is the story of the Packers and of Green Bayfrom the days of the French fur traders who settled on the shores of La Baie in the seventeenth century to the teams pursuit of its fourteenth NFL championship. Featuring essays by Peter King Chuck Mercein Austin Murphy and David S. Neft The Peoples Team is a must-have for fans old and new and the definitive illustrated history of the most important team in the NFL.