The Green Bay Packers are one of the most celebrated success stories in pro sports, with an NFL-best 13 championships won.

But for the 24 years between the departure of Vince Lombardi and the arrival of Brett Favre, they were anything but championship caliber. Traumatown U.S.A. takesTakes an in-depth but irreverent look at the Packers between 1968 and 1991 – what some have termed “the gory years.”

The historically bad trade for John Hadl; Bart Starr’s feuds with the media; the “Majik” year of 1989; barroom brawls and boardroom back-stabbing; it’s all here – along with a lot of losing. And a few memorable victories.

It’s a period of futility that the current behemoth of a Packers franchise would rather you forgot. Read all about it in Traumatown U.S.A.