Pro football gave Packers the boot

No evidence to support conspiracy theory involving George Halas, though

(left to right) Eddie Anderson, Lawrence “Buck” Shaw, Jim Dooley, Fred “Ojay” Larson, Heartley “Hunk” Anderson, Harry “Horse” Mehre, Art “Hector” Garvey, Roger Kiley. Credit: The University of Notre Dame ArchivesAside 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.

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