Here’s a fine photo of Packers’ DB Bob Jeter, who is for some reason not remembered by many fans. Playing during the Lombardi Era, he was part of the all-star backfield with Herb Adderley and Willie Wood. To read a bit of biographical history, see this post from last year on Packerville, U.S.A.
We also found this clip on the league’s website that spotlights Adderley and Jeter as the #4 best defensive backfield of all time. To watch, please click here.
• Rodgers makes 'hard count' count
Today’s photo of Packers’ great WR Don Hutson is from the 1943 season, when the world was engulfed in World War II. But Americans needed football to take their mind off the dire situation, and to provide an entertainment alternative to the long hours of work in Wisconsin’s war factories. In ’43, the Packers finished with a 7-2-1 record for second place in the Western Division. Hutson caught 47 passes for 776 yards and 11 touchdowns. His longest was a 79-yard scoring play. Because players played “both ways” in those days, he also intercepted 8 balls with 197 yards of returns, including one for an 84-yard touchdown. Green Bay would win it all the next year, and Hutson would retire at the end of the 1945 season.
• Morgan Burnett has his eye on the ball
Here’s a video with Aaron Rodgers from an NFL.com segment titled “The Next Dynasty?” To see the video, please click here.
This is what the typical Green Bay Packers game program looked like in 1924. It looks more like what you might be handed after entering a high school football game now. Well, the N.F.L. still had a lot of growing to do back in only the League’s third year. This is from the October 19th game against the Milwaukee Badgers, which the Packers won 17-0 in front of 4,150 fans in Green Bay’s Bellevue Park. The Badgers played in the National Football League from 1922 to 1926, playing their home games at Athletic Park, later known as Borchert Field, on Milwaukee's north side. The team was notable for having a large number of African-American players for the time. The Badgers folded following the 1926 season (largely due to being left broke because of a $500 fine by the NFL for using four high-school players in a 1925 game against the Chicago Cardinals).
• Increased security coming at Lambeau Field
Getting back to why this blog was created in the first place, today we’re featuring a look at how some of the Green Bay Packers’ facilities looked in the late 1980s-early 1990’s. Above is a somewhat rare look inside the previous indoor training facility, nicknamed affectionately(?) “The Barn.” It sat on the same site as the current Don Hutson Center, which opened in 1994. If we remember correctly, the Packers held their mini-camps in Arizona while the Hutson Center was being completed that year.
Here is an aerial image of Lambeau Field as it appeared through the Mike Holmgren/Ron Wolf era when the franchise was resurrected from years of mediocrity. Of course, things look quite different now following the redevelopment phase of 2001-2003. At upper center/right, you can see “The Barn” where the Don Hutson Center now sits. Notable as well in the photo are the Packers’ administrative offices extending off of the North end of the stadium (lower left corner). These are the offices that were built in 1963 during Vince Lombardi’s reign, and greatly expanded in several phases afterwards. They no longer exist in this form, and now take up a few floors of the Atrium facility.
• Packers are perfect only in record
Here are a few reasons why the Packers held off the Bears on Sunday in Chicago’s Soldier Field. QB Aaron Rodgers had another good day — 28 or 38, for 297 yards and 3 TDs.
The Packers’ defense, while bending here and there, held the Bears to 13 yards rushing in 12 attempts.
RB Ryan Grant finally looked again like the player they’re paying him to be — 92 yards on 17 attempts.
REGULAR SEASON GAME #3 WRAP-UP:
Big game coming up on Sunday, especially for those of us who live among Bears fans 24/7/365. We’re posting all of the game preview material a day earlier, and then we will add news to the links in the “Newsroom” as they become available through Sunday morning.
Here is a game preview from Bears.com. To watch, please click here.
Here’s the same N.F.L. Network game preview that we posted yesterday. If you missed it, please click here.
Bears play-by-play announcer Jeff Joniak’s game preview can be watched here.
Bears’ coach Lovie Smith’s comments on the Packers can be watched here.
Some comments from Aaron Rodgers can be seen in this “Rivalry Reloaded” video here.
The N.F.L. Network’s Packers/Bears “Playbook” can be seen here.
Wouldn’t you just love to see this happen about ten times on Sunday? With the Bears’ offensive line troubles, it just may happen. The above image, from the N.F.C. Championship game, was a nice collaboration between LB Clay Matthews and former DL Cullen Jenkins. Keeping the heat on Cutler will help the secondary that is adjusting to the loss of Nick Collins for the season.
Here is a short video preview from the N.F.L. Network before Sunday’s game in Chicago. To watch the preview, please click here.
• Packers utilizing Nelson’s speed more
In our second installment of looking back at the 2010 N.F.C. Championship game in Chicago, we feature CB Sam Shields getting one of his two interceptions of the day against Bears’ WR Johnny Knox. How about getting three this Sunday, Sam?
• Offense bogs down, defense tightens up in red zone
The Packers are 2-0 and it’s on to the Windy City on Sunday to the site of the N.F.C. Championship game last year, when they triumphed over the Bears to advance to — and win — Super Bowl XLV. Over the next few days, we’ll feature some great photos from that game here. Above, QB Aaron Rodgers scores a TD on a 1-yard run in the First Quarter. 
• Stock sale to start by end of 2011 if NFL approves
There’s a couple of new Packers-related books out on the market, as there always are for each new season. The first, “Alive and Kicking,” is an autobiography by former kicker Chester Marcol. If you’re not aware, old No. 13 has had quite a struggle with many issues after football, substance abuse being one of them. At one point, he drank battery acid. He has turned his life around, and perhaps his story will help someone else.
The other book that is out is an official Packers publication — entitled “One” — documenting the Super Bowl championship season of 2010. We will be picking this one up, along with the 2011 Green Bay Packers Yearbook and the 2011 Media Guide when we head up for the Denver game on Sunday, October 2nd. The yearbooks and media guides weren’t ready during Training Camp, due to the lockout delaying everything.
• Packers Team Report
2-0 sounds good at this point of the season — a lot better than what the record could be if the ball had bounced a couple of different ways in the first two games. Charles Woodson (above) had a very good day. with two INT’s and a fumble recovery. The defense did what it needed to do when it needed to do it, and the Packers sealed the win, despite an attempted comeback from the pesky Carolinians.
Rodgers also had a decent day, 19 out of 30 for 308 yards and no INTs.
Rodgers celebrating with Greg Jennings after one of the TDs.
Donald Driver set the Packers’ career receiving yardage record with his lone 10-yard catch.
Coach Mike McCarthy (right) hoping his team can seal the deal.
