Downfield!: Untold Stories of the Green Bay Packers

Realistic look at life and times of 75 ex-Green Bay Packers.Downfield will take you where no other book on the Packers, or on NFL football, has gone, and that is into the lives of retired players. This is a realistic look, through personal interviews with 75 ex-Packers, of what life is life after the cheering stops. Read a cross-section of stories on the still famous (Starr, Nitschke) to the forgotten (Jerry Tagge, Steve Odom, etc.). The interviews cover men who played in the 1930s to 1990, offering a mix of personal triumphs, travails and Packer history. I believe that my book picks up where Jerry Kramer's Distant Replay leaves off. If you want an honest account of life as a pro football player and if you're interested in history of the Super Bowl champion Green Bay Packers, this book is for you. I hope you enjoy it. -- Jerry Poling, Eau Claire, Wis.