Hopefully, as the Packers approach their 100th anniversary season and birthday, you’ll learn things about their storied history you didn’t know before. But it will all come with a warning: Much of what you’ll read and hear about the early years will contradict what you’ve been told in the past.
There’s no more compelling story in American sports than the creation, survival and success of the Packers. But, sadly, the beginning of the story has become so distorted that myth and falsehoods have overrun the truth.
Before we move ahead, we probably should look back and try to explain how so many could have gotten this great story so wrong.