Green Bay Packers Firsts

In Green Bay Packers Firsts, Chuck Carlson presents the stories behind the firsts in Packers history in question-and-answer format. Carlson’s collection includes substantive answers to the question of who was the first...? on a variety of topics, many of which will surprise even seasoned fans of the Packers. In its more than one hundred-year history, Green Bay Packers fans have been treated to countless firsts: the Packers first NFL championship (1929), the Packers first league MVP (Don Hutson, 1941), the Packers first coach (Willard ＂Big Bill＂ Ryan), the first Packers NFL Draft choice (Russ Letlow, 1936), the first Packers quarterback to throw six touchdown passes in a game (Matt Flynn, 2012), the first Packers game on TV (1951), and the first Packer to rush for 1,000 yards (Tony Canadeo, 1949).

Chuck Carlson is an award-winning journalist who has written numerous sports books on subjects ranging from golf to baseball. But his main focus had been on the players and history of the Green Bay Packers, having written on quarterback Brett Favre, Green Bay’s two most recent Super Bowl titles, the 1967 ＂Ice Bowl,＂ the best players at each position in team history, and more. He is a frequent freelance writer and has written for newspapers in Virginia, Maryland, Nevada, Washington, Illinois, and Wisconsin.