Though she didn't know him, Nancee Lingg bonded with Packer running back Aaron Jones as the two of them rolled down the Appleton International Airport hallway and into Twitter fame. In fact, by the time a fellow passenger tweeted a photo of them, the two Texas natives had chatted amiably about their shared love for [...]
You could fill a library with books about legendary Packer Coach Vince Lombardi and wallpaper a stadium with his quotes. So ubiquitous are the images of him stalking the sidelines in his trench coat and fedora that children whose parents weren't even born during the Lombardi Years still dress like him for Halloween. Coach Lombardi [...]
In marked contrast to all the hoopla surrounding the modern NFL draft, Herb Adderley signed his first NFL contract on the hood of a car in an unfamiliar parking lot. The Packers' No. 1 pick in the 1961 draft, Adderley, then 21-years old, negotiated his contract alone. Though the draft took place in Philadelphia, Adderley's [...]
In what turned out to be one of the NFL's strongest classes ever, my dad, Ron Kostelnik, was chosen 26th overall and, at the time, he didn't even know he'd been drafted. In December of 1960, my dad's mind was on other things. A defensive tackle for the University of Cincinnati, he had just played [...]
On a Sunday afternoon in 1961, Gene Chu adjusted the rabbit ears on his family's TV and became a lifelong Packer fan. For most of his childhood, he was the only Packer fan he knew. Chu, then a young boy living in Espanola, a small paper mill town located in Northern Ontario, picked a good [...]
