Green Bay Replay
by Dick Schaap
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Author: Dick SchaapEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1997-09-01
ISBN: 0380975955
Number of pages: 289
Publisher: William Morrow
Summary of Green Bay Replay
In 1967 Dick Schaap and Jerry Kramer wrote the definitive work on the Vince Lombardi-era Green Bay Packers. Entitled Instant Replay, the book sold two million copies and became the standard by which all other sports books were measured. Now with "Green Bay Replay" Dick Schaap revisits the revitalized Green Bay Packers."Green Bay Replay" is three compelling stories in one. The first is of one of sports' most heralded franchises, winner of numerous NFL championships, the first two Super Bowls and the second most popular merchandising logo in the NFL. The second is of a town of less than 100,000 that lives and breathes Packers football and has sold out every home game for decades...even when the Packers went through a slump of longer than 20 years. And the third is of the building of a new dynasty, led by coach Mike Holmgren, quarterback Brett Favre and defensive end Reggie White, culminating in victory at Super Bowl XXXI.
Written with unparalleled access to all members of the Packers organization, "Green Bay Replay" is the definitive look at football's most jubilant story -- presented with the warmth and insight that make Dick Schaap a singular sports chronicler.
There is something refreshing about Dick Schaap's ready admission that he's had a long-standing romance with Green Bay and its football team. "I do not come to this book with clean journalistic hands," he cops. And so much the better. In an era of cold, corporate sports and cold, cynical sportswriters, the Packers are the nation's only civically owned major franchise, and Schaap, one of the best observers of the sporting scene, adores them for it. His chronicle of the 1997 Super Bowl championship campaign warmly examines the town's special relationship with its team, and the team's special relationship with its past as it affectionately links current stars such as Brett Favre and Reggie White with their spiritual ancestors--Bart Starr and Willie Davis--from the dynasties of the Vince Lombardi-led '60s. A little soppy? Sure. But so what? There's no law that says baseball's the only sport allowed to split the uprights of emotion.
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