Golden Boy

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ISBN-10:

0803267622

ISBN-13:

9780803267626

Author(s): Hornung, Paul
Released: Jan 01, 2008
Publisher: Bison Books
Format: Paperback, 291 pages
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Description:

Paul Hornung was footballs golden boyhandsome, talented, and fabulously successful. He had a great career at Notre Dame, where he won the Heisman Trophy, was the number one draft pick in the NFL, and went on to the Green Bay Packers, a terrible team soon to be transformed by the new head coach, Vince Lombardi. Hornungs Packer teams would become a dynasty, and ten of his teammates (as well as Lombardi) would eventually join him in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Hornung led the NFL in scoring from 1959 to 1961, setting a single-season scoring record in 1960, and was named Player of the Year in 1960 and 1961.Hornung always loved the good life. He had girlfriends across the country and was a regular at Toots Shors in Manhattan and at clubs in Chicago and Los Angeles. A frustrated Lombardi once asked him whether he wanted to be a player or a playboy, and his teammates joked about his Hollywood ambitions. But the good life came at a pri


























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