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Life After Favre: the Green Bay Packers and Their Fans Usher in the Aaron Rodgers Era Online cXKt6 [Get free] Life After Favre: The Green Bay Packers and Their Fans Usher In the Aaron Rodgers Era Online [cXKt6.ebook] Life After Favre: The Green Bay Packers and Their Fans Usher In the Aaron Rodgers Era Pdf Free Phil Hanrahan ePub | *DOC | audiobook | ebooks | Download PDF Download Now Free Download Here Download eBook #6344071 in Books 2015-11-24Formats: Audiobook, MP3 Audio, UnabridgedOriginal language:EnglishPDF # 1 6.75 x .50 x 5.25l, Running time: 10 HoursBinding: MP3 CD | File size: 72.Mb Phil Hanrahan : Life After Favre: The Green Bay Packers and Their Fans Usher In the Aaron Rodgers Era before purchasing it in order to gage whether or not it would be worth my time, and all praised Life After Favre: The Green Bay Packers and Their Fans Usher In the Aaron Rodgers Era: 0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. A moment of transitionBy WDX2BBWhen 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.1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Very good booBy ashellBought this for my brother and he loved it. Not quite as in depth as you would think but it does go into a lot of previous seasons which is nice. Great book for real Packers fans (and not just Brett Favre fans).1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Great for Packer fansBy Darryl HandI read this after the Superbowl victory, and the hindsight of knowing the future made this book even more enjoyable. While the 2008 season didn't work out so well, the writer did get lucky in some of the players he focused on - Jordy Nelson, Tramon Williams, and Aaron Rodgers - all of whom would go on to play huge roles in the Superbowl victory.If you are a Green Bay fan, get it, you won't regret it! 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. From Publishers WeeklyHanrahan'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. Copyright copy; Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. The best book ever written on the Packers. mdash;John Rehor, GreenBayPackerNation.com nbsp; Irsquo;d give it an A for football fans and an A+ for Packer fans. mdash;Rick Gosselin, Dallas Morning News nbsp; 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 ldquo;Gee, isnrsquo;t it charming how folks in this quaint little town love their football teamrdquo; 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 Favrersquo;s exit and its impact on the state. mdash;Drew Olson, OnMilwaukee.com nbsp; Compelling.... Hanrahan doesnrsquo;t fall prey to sports-book clicheacute;s, 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.
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