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Wisconsin native Phil Hanrahan moved from Los Angeles to Green Bay to chronicle the Packers 2008 football campaign, the first season in 17 years without quarterback Brett Favre. He is there as new starting quarterback Aaron Rodgers begins what one football writer called "the toughest job in professional sports".
Immersing himself in the worlds of team and town, Hanrahan is reborn a full-blown cheesehead: living above Vince Lombardi's first Packers office, observing training camp practices, attending the team's annual shareholders meeting, interviewing players, tailgating in arctic cold, shoveling snow at Lambeau for $8 an hour, celebrating Packer great Fuzzy Thurston's 75th birthday at Thurston's bar, and, at every turn, befriending scores of die-hard Packers fans he encounters along the way.
Hanrahan also journeys far from Lambeau as well, hitting away games in New Orleans and Minneapolis and pursuing adventures in Packer Land nation-wide, from a year-round Packers bar in Scottsdale, Arizona, to wide receiver Jordy Nelson's parents' sports bar in rural Kansas, to tiny Napoleonville, Louisiana, hometown of cornerback Tramon Williams.
Here is the first book written on the new-era Packers, the team of Rodgers, Coach Mike McCarthy, GM Ted Thompson. Featuring a new afterword that brings the Packers story up-to-date and covers their amazing triumph in Super Bowl XLV, Life After Favre chronicles one of the most dramatic seasons in Packers history while revealing, with energy, insight, and humor, the story of the NFL's winningest franchise.
- Sales Rank: #5966334 in Books
- Published on: 2015-11-24
- Formats: Audiobook, MP3 Audio, Unabridged
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 6.75" h x .50" w x 5.25" l,
- Running time: 10 Hours
- Binding: MP3 CD
From Publishers Weekly
Hanrahan's chronicle of the 2008 Green Bay Packers-the Green and Gold's first season in 17 years without three-time MVP quarterback Brett Favre-has a bit in common with the team that limped to a depressing 6-10 season: namely, a lack of focus. A Wisconsin native, L.A. freelance writer Hanrahan temporarily relocated to a Green Bay hotel (which, decades earlier, had housed the Packers' offices) to cover the whirlwind aftermath of the summer 2008 decision by team management to trade the 38-year-old, freshly returned from retirement, to the New York Jets. While Hanrahan remains surprisingly objective regarding the most dramatic episode in Packers history, enthusiasm leads him to overstuff his narrative with unnecessary detail regarding individual games and peripheral players. Told primarily through game summaries and the voices of fans that Hanrahan meets in bars-including not just Green Bay's Stadium View Bar & Grille, but the Broke Spoke in Favre's hometown of Kiln, Miss.-this volume manages a colorful team history and a comprehensive career overview of Favre's replacement, Aaron Rodgers. Unfortunately, the book ends prior to Favre's second "retirement," renounced in the summer of 2009 when he joined Green Bay's hated rivals, the Minnesota Vikings.
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Review
The best book ever written on the Packers.
—John Rehor, GreenBayPackerNation.com
I’d give it an A for football fans and an A+ for Packer fans.
—Rick Gosselin, Dallas Morning News
Wisconsin native Phil Hanrahan moved from Los Angeles to Green Bay [to] chronicle the first season A.B. (after Brett). In the hands of an outsider (or less skilled writer), this could have been a “Gee, isn’t it charming how folks in this quaint little town love their football team” tome, but Hanrahan used access and insight to dig for deeper details that will surprise even diehard fans. He takes you from the practice field to the locker room to tailgate parties to Packers Bars nationwide, and tells the story of Favre’s exit and its impact on the state.
—Drew Olson, OnMilwaukee.com
Compelling.... Hanrahan doesn’t fall prey to sports-book clichés, and, as a result, Life After Favre ends up being much more a celebration of the inimitable culture that surrounds the Packers than just a look at one specific year or player.
—Jason Albert, Onion AV Club, Madison ed.
Freelance writer Hanrahan moved to Green Bay to live the life of a Packer fan, enhanced with a backstage press pass for player interviews.... While Hanrahan’s profile of personable new Packer quarterback Aaron Rodgers is particularly good, his strongest emphasis is on the delightful fans he meets not only in Wisconsin but also in far-flung Packer outposts in Kansas, Arizona, and Mississippi. VERDICT: A literate, fresh take [that] will be of interest to all football fans.
—John Maxymuk, Library Journal
Pack aficionados will dig glimpses of Green Bay’s storied past while they’re guided through [the] present. ... The book’s soul is Hanrahan’s interaction with fans. Whether he’s hanging with them in Kansas or Kiln, or shoveling brats or snow with them at Lambeau, those fans remind you that it is indeed a Packer Nation.
—Howie Magner, Milwaukee Magazine
About the Author
Phil Hanrahan is a Wisconsin native and lifelong Green Bay Packers fan who has taught writing at Marquette University, managed publicity for Oxford University Press-NY, and served as media aide to a former presidential candidate. Currently based in Los Angeles, he is a summa cum laude graduate of Middlebury College, studied literature at Oxford University, and holds an M.A. in English from Duke University.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
It's a Packers book - not a Favre book.
By Cecil Natapov
Life After Favre, despite the fact that Favre's name is in the title (probably for obvious marketing reasons...) is really about the town of Green Bay and Wisconsin, really, and in fact it goes beyond Wisconsin to talk about both where the players come from and where the fans go (there are zillions of Packers bars all around the country, and world, for instance -- who knew?), so it is about Packers lore and fandom and about the culture of the midwest, too, and what curious mixes you get of players and fans. Jamaican Atari Bigby playing in the snow, Mormon linemen, Favre's mississippi hunting roots played out in Wisconsin duck hunting.
Also, you learn that Green Bay is the only serious pro sports franchise with a community of fan ownership, which is cool, and there is a great chapter on Rodgers, and the stuff on Favre and the vikings -- written BEFORE Favre came back for the whatever-th time, of course -- is kind of prescient. Hanrahan even pictures a purple-clad Favre getting sacked by Kampman in the first Monday Night Football game...we'll see if Hanrahan got that right, cause the Pack and Vikes play twice this fall.
Anyway. It's ambitious and literary, and while there is football game and football season narrative from 2008, it's really the profiles of the town and the team and the weather and the individual fans that makes this book a contribution to serious fun sports writing, and makes it much more than an account of the 2008 season, per se.
It's really in the tradition of Plimpton and Halberstam. I hope to see more from Hanrahan, because he mixes a love for the game with great research and a light touch with the pen. Don't miss the section where he talks about Favre and the greek notion of "thymos" -- comparing him to Achilles, the epic, flawed hero! He also drops in to Ruby's Roadhouse in Bloomer, Wisconsin and meets Skeeter and Hooter, who tell some off-color jokes; a different kind of hero, the everyman. Fun.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
A moment of transition
By WDX2BB
When an author of a book on a sports season picks a year, he's subject to the whims of fate. Sometimes he or she gets lucky, sometimes he doesn't.
Phil Hanrahan, the author of "Life After Favre," was rather unlucky.
He started off nicely off. He decided to move to Green Bay for a few months in 2008 and write a book about the Packers. When he came up with the idea, Brett Favre was apparently headed toward retirement with Aaron Rodgers taking over the quarterback position of a team that was one pass away from a Super Bowl the previous year.
But then Favre decided he wasn't done after all, starting a drama that Shakespeare would have stolen for his next play had he been around to see it. Favre and the Packers had a public disagreement, and so the public took sides on whether to keep their beloved quarterback or move on with Rodgers. The team's management opted to let Favre move on to the Jets via trade eventually, angering part of the fan base.
That gets the start of Hanrahan's book off to a good start, even if we know how the story turns out -- especially years after publication. But once the quarterback controversy settles down a bit, as Rodgers plays pretty well and Favre has his ups and downs in New York, the book heads in a few different directions.
Hanrahan tries something of an inside-and-out approach to the story. He does get some media access to the team, allowing him to attend the odd practice and news conference as well as to conduct some interviews. But for the most part, Hanrahan looks at the team from the outside, along the lines of how a Packer fan might.
Indeed, the best parts of the book are the ones that cover Packer Nation. Football fans know that the Packers play in the smallest city in the National Football League by far and that the team is technically owned by the community. Packers fans are known for their devotion no matter where they live, and Hanrahan talks to quite a few of them during the course of the book. He even goes to the hometowns of Favre and a couple of the current players. The fans are devoted but not without perspective, so the author paints a very pleasant picture there. No wonder most of the reviews here are very positive. Hanrahan also does some good work on Packers' history; he happened to pick a hotel that used to house Vince Lombardi's office, which served as inspiration.
As for the season itself, it didn't work out well for the author or the team. After a decent start, the Packers slowly unraveled through a string of close losses. Green Bay finished 6-10, well out of the playoffs. The portions of the book are rather detailed and don't date particularly well. At the point of some years out, it is easy to see the mind wander while reading. It also would have been nice to have had a roster and week-by-week record of the team in the appendix for reference.
Hanrahan gets one final bit of bad luck at the end, when he writes that Favre had retired again from football and everyone was moving on from the drama of 2008. As we know, Favre wrote a sequel to the drama by coming back to football in the summer of 2009. There were no happy endings for him in Minnesota either, but the Packers got one under Rodgers in February 2011 when they won another Super Bowl.
"Life After Favre" comes across as a little unfocused in spots as the story bounces around a bit with only some attention paid to chronology. Still, it's a pleasant look at a franchise that is rather special in a number of ways, and thus should still be read and liked by those in Wisconsin and elsewhere who bleed green and gold.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
"We're No. 1"
By Bryan J. Sverchek
As the previous reviewer said, this isn't a book about Favre. Yes, it's about the Midwest and Wisconsin, Green Bay and Lambeau field, and rookies and veterans. But really it's about identity and what it means to play for or (maybe more importantly) to root for the Green and Gold in its first year without its most recognizable face of the last two decades.
Hanrahan is an excellent writer, effectively navigating the intersection of professional sports and human interest. This is sports writing at its best--funny, literate, and truly moving at times. I challenge anyone not to feel chills as Hanrahan describes lifelong Packers fans watch Favre play his first game in Jets kelly green.
Favre fans, Packers fans, Jets or Vikings fans, football fans, and really anyone simply interested in people will find something to love in this book. Sure, we learn a lot about state of Wisconsin and the Midwest U.S., Lambeau field and the town of Green Bay, NFL veterans and NFL rookies, but in the end, what we know is that even in a year where they go 6 and 10, the Packers and their fans really are "No. 1."
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