The Packers were a cheap, second-rate outfit. They held training camp in remote Stevens Point, Wisconsin, on a high school field with dim lights; punts disappeared into the sky during evening scrimmages. Other teams stayed at first-class hotels and gave players a per diem when they traveled, but the Packers frequented out-of-the-way bargain motels and ate sandwiches that management handed out. Other teams flew on newer planes, but the Packers crammed into a pair of DC-3 turboprops, with half of the team’s quarterbacks, runners, blockers, linebackers, and safeties on one plane and half on the
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