January 2020
Intermediate to advanced
240 pages
5h 26m
English
August afternoons in Green Bay, Wisconsin, are surprisingly hot, humid affairs. Every year, thousands of people spend those sticky days around a carefully constructed chain-link fence, with one goal: watching their beloved Packers prepare for the upcoming season. Within the fence, the players and coaching staff are focused on the work of training camp.
My younger brother, AJ, played nine seasons for the Packers. During every year of AJ’s time in Green Bay, my dad spent the week of his birthday attending these August training camp practices. Most fans make the effort to arrive early at Ray Nitschke Field (located next to the Don Hutson Center and across the street from Lambeau Field) in order to get a good seat for the ...