What's it like in Green Bay, Wisconsin, a place where an entire small city (population 100,000) lives and dies with the fortunes of a professional sports team? What's it like in the stands at
Lambeau Field as the mercury dips toward ten-below? What's it like being a twenty-two-year-old African American from a southern state living in snowy Green Bay (black population 1.4%) fighting
for playing time for the first time? What it's like for Aaron Rodgers of Chico, California, son of a semi-pro lineman, as he attempts to fill the giant shoes of departed legend Brett
Favre?
These are some of the questions author Phil Hanrahan answers in Life After Favre, a book about the contemporary Green Bay experience: football, fandom, temperature extremes, corner
bars, state-of-the-art training facilities, Packer-decorated ranch homes on Packer-named streets, and historic Lambeau Field. Hanrahan captures all of this as a new era--a new reality--begins
in Green Bay. He hits Packers practices, meals, the training room, and the locker room. He tags along for player socializing--backyard barbecues, fishing, and DVD night. He becomes a full-blown
Cheesehead, tailgating in arctic cold and catching away games in Packer bars and on big-screen living-room TVs. With energy, insight, humor, and vivid color, Life After Favre tells the
story of a singular team and town.
