Reviews for History of the Green Bay Packers: The Lambeau Years, Vol. 1

The average rating for History of the Green Bay Packers: The Lambeau Years, Vol. 1 based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-08-19 00:00:00 Darren Faragher Even as a diehard Packers fan, I found this a bit dry. The author goes into minute detail of nearly every week of the first years of the team and soon runs out of adjectives and verbs for two football teams playing one another. For the most part it read very much like an encyclopedia, listing each member of the team every year. I also found it a little annoying how smug and superior he sounded as he pointed out just how well researched the book was and how he reveled in previous historians' failure to uncover what he did. We get it, Larry, you did your homework. That said however, I still enjoyed it. I found the early NFL politics and team maneuvering to be quite interesting and there was certainly things about the founding of the franchise that I didn't know and feel like a bigger fan now that I do. I'd recommend giving it a shot if you're a big fan. If you're a casual one, not so much.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-01-06 00:00:00 Daniel Donovan Green Bay Packers: The Lambeau Years Part One is a history of the beginning of the storied National Football League franchise from its days as a city team in 1918 and before to its fight to become and to stay a team in the NFL. Larry D. Names relies on many articles from the Green Bay Post-Crescent and seems to remain objective even though the newspaper accounts aren't always. Names tries to look at both sides of early leaders as Joe Carr, the first president of the league, Curly Lambeau, and George Halas. This is an honest book although the writing leaves something to be desired.