Let Me Tell You Something: Sal Reads a Thousand Pages on Packer History and Has Thoughts
Packernet Podcast: Daily Green Bay Packers Podcast
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4.7 • 524 Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Big Sal from Peshtigo just finished a book. All four volumes. One thousand and twenty-four pages. And Pack Nation — it changed him.
The Greatest Story in Sports: Green Bay Packers 1919–2019 by Cliff Christl is the definitive history of this franchise, and Sal came prepared to tell you exactly why it matters. This is not a fast episode and it is not a gentle one.
- Curly Lambeau's legendary Notre Dame backstory — the one printed in Hall of Fame plaques and official media guides for decades — was built by Lambeau himself, and Christl proved it with primary sources
- Don Hutson's mythologized stats couldn't be verified when Christl pulled the actual Alabama records — great player, stacked legend, nobody ever opened the case
- The 1989 Draft, Barry Sanders sitting on the board, and the organizational rot that produced Tony Mandarich — Sal has feelings he needs to physically release from his body
- The Ice Bowl, the Lombardi chapters, the community stock drives that kept this franchise alive when billionaires weren't coming to save it — this is the real story of the only fan-owned team in professional sports
Subscribe, leave a review, and go get this book. Four volumes. Packers Pro Shop. Every page earned.
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| 0:00.0 | Let me tell you some, Pact Nation. |
| 0:13.0 | I just finished the book. |
| 0:15.0 | I know. |
| 0:16.0 | I know what you're thinking. |
| 0:18.0 | Sal doesn't read books. |
| 0:19.0 | Sal reads box scores and ingredient labels and the back of a sausage |
| 0:22.9 | jar at 2 in the morning. Historically, Fair Point. I graduated from Pestigo High School. I worked |
| 0:29.4 | in a shop. I watched film. That is my reading. But somebody left the greatest story in sports. |
| 0:36.6 | Green Bay Packers 1919 to 2019 on my kitchen counter. |
| 0:43.2 | Four volumes, 1,024 pages, just sitting there next to my coffee mug like a dare. |
| 0:51.5 | So I read it, all of it, every page, three weeks, fell asleep once in |
| 0:57.8 | volume two with the book on my face. Finished it anyway. And Pact Nation, this book changed me. |
| 1:05.9 | Not in some weird spiritual way. I found myself 20 years ago at Lambo in December, wearing nothing |
| 1:12.9 | but a foam cheese hat and a thermal undershirt. That was enough finding for one lifetime. |
| 1:19.3 | I mean, this book cracked open 100 years of this franchise and showed me things I did not know |
| 1:25.9 | were in there. Let me tell you who wrote it because it matters. |
| 1:29.3 | Cliff Crystal, the official team historian, |
| 1:33.3 | four decades covering the Packers, |
| 1:36.3 | the Green Bay Press Gazette, the Milwaukee Journal, |
| 1:39.3 | over 300 interviews, 500 oral histories, |
| 1:43.3 | every relevant Wisconsin newspaper page from 50 years |
| 1:49.0 | of coverage, worked mostly alone, no days off at the end, just one man, 100 years of this |
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