GREEN BAY – The Green Bay Packers rarely do anything halfway and that goes double for the team's new history of its first 100 years.
What began as an idea for a 300- to 500-page book to be released on the team's 100th birthday — that would be Aug. 11, 2019 — became a four-volume, 1,024-page definitive tome that leaves no myth unbusted, no significant story untold.
"That’s the great part of this. The truth is better than all the B.S. that has been made up about so many things that have happened," said author Cliff Christl, Packers team historian and formerGreen Bay Press-Gazette, Milwaukee Journal and Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter, whose career is as closely tied to the Packers as that of any living journalist.