The First America's Team: The 1962 Green Bay Packers - Paperback

by Bob Berghaus (Author)

The 1962 Green Bay Packers are still considered one of the most successful teams in the history of the National Football League. This book examines how the team was built, exploring how four of the five assistants on Lombardi's coaching staff went on to become head coaches. The team was rich with personalities, from the glamour-conscious Hourning to the emotional Nitschke to the determined Starr. Of course, the strongest personality of all was Lombardi, who shaped these many unique individuals and talents into a team that changed the game forever. The Packers of this era won five championships in seven years, including the first two Super Bowls, creating a dynasty in the smallest market in professional sports. Despite playing in little Green Bay, the players on Lombardi's team became national heroes. Author Bob Berghaus includes stats, interviews, and classic photographs of each game and highlights how the Green Bay Packers from "the Siberia of the NFL" became the game's gritty, glorious, and enduring powerhouse.

Author Biography

Bob Berghaus was born in 1954 and raised in Milwaukee. He went on to work for the Milwaukee Journal and Milwaukee Journal Sentinel where he reported on a variety of sports, including the Milwaukee Brewers from 1991-95 and the Green Bay Packers from 1996-98, covering the Packers in Super Bowls XXXI and XXXII. He then moved to Green Bay to become sports editor of the Green Bay Press-Gazette. He's earned several writing awards and was named Wisconsin Sportswriter of the Year in 1991 by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association. Bob left Green Bay in the summer of 2003 for Asheville, North Carolina, where he is currently sports editor of the Asheville Citizen-Times. He and his wife, Lisa, have a daughter, Kelly.