We head back before the Lombardi Era today, with a football season preview publication from the year 1957. The Packers weren’t exactly a powerhouse in those years, and one team biographer has called the 1950’s “The Shameful Years.”
In a listing of the best players of the National Football League, this photo was used with an apt caption.
Each team received six pages of commentary, including lowly teams like Green Bay.
Here’s the entire 1957 N.F.L. schedule. The Packers would finish with a record of 3-9-0 under head coach Lisle Blackbourn.