There was a time, especially in the pre-Super Bowl era, when it was mostly quiet on the National Football League’s news front for most of the offseason.
When the NFL Championship Game was played before Jan. 1, the first two months of the year could pass without almost any pro football headlines. For example, the Green Bay Packers never changed coaches over their first three decades and basically had only one assistant coach prior to World War II.
Nevertheless, there were years that came in with a bang for the Packers and here are what were arguably the most memorable in terms of off-the-field news through the first six weeks of a given year.