Aside from the Jackie Robinson saga, which was really part of a much larger and more profound epic about American society, the story of the Green Bay Packers is the most compelling in sports.
No novelist, no Hollywood producer could have dreamed up a better narrative. The Packers’ improbable survival and success in the only pocket-sized outpost in big-time sports is living proof that truth is stranger than fiction.
But, sadly, Packers history has to be one of the most poorly researched subjects on sports bookshelves and there’s no better example of that than the story about the Packers getting kicked out of the American Professional Football Association, just months before it was renamed the National Football League.