Having played his entire career for the Green Bay Packers for the better part of a decade, Paul Hornung’s collection of memorabilia and photographs span a large and important section of Packers history. Now, Hornung makes his private collection of memorabilia available to the public for the first time ever, and includes never-before-seen photographs. This scrapbook also features such photos as his original contract with the Packers and stories and memories from Hornung himself, making this one-of-a-kind collection the perfect keepsake for any Cheesehead. Paul Hornung is a Hall of Fame running back who played for the Green Bay Packers for his entire career where he won four NFL titles and the first Super Bowl. He lives in Louisville, Kentucky. Chuck Carlson is an award-winning sportswriter whose work has been published in newspapers across the country. He has spent over a decade covering the Green Bay Packers and is the author of several books, including Tales from the Green Bay Packers Sideline . He lives in Battle Creek, Michigan. The Paul Hornung Scrapbook By Paul Hornung, Chuck Carlson Triumph Books Copyright © 2014 Paul Hornung and Chuck Carlson All rights reserved. ISBN: 978-1-60078-993-9 Contents Introduction, A Home in Louisville, Under the Golden Dome, Life in Green Bay, Me and Lombardi, Life in Limbo, Life After the NFL, CHAPTER 1 A Home in Louisville Louisville has always been my home. As much as I loved the excitement and the bright lights of cities like Los Angeles, New York, Miami, and, my favorite city of all, Chicago, Louisville has always been home and always will be. The people here have always been good to me and they have been behind me from the beginning. Even when I was suspended, they were behind me and it has always been important to me that I represent the town. This place has always been important to me. It's important that they're proud of me and I think they are. I've tried to live the kind of life in which they will be. The sports columnist Jim Murray once called my hometown "America's bar rag," and while a lot of residents took offense to that, I didn't. The Louisville I knew growing up was a city of whiskey distilleries, cigarette factories, and gambling at Churchill Downs, home of one of my favorite events in the world, the Kentucky Derby. I was told that as a baby I loved to play with balls in my crib, so maybe that was the start of my love for athletics. And sports proved to be a terrific outlet for me because, growing up, life wasn't the easiest. My folks divorced when I was two or three, and my dad, who was never an athlete, left because of his alcoholism. He lost his job with the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., first in New York and then in Louisville, and left us. He took the car and she kept the furniture and me. I never knew my dad growing up. I was always raised by my mom. She was born and raised in Louisville and in 1939 she got a job with the Works Progress Administration as a clerk-typist and we lived in a two-room apartment above my grandfather's grocery. She worked her whole life in Louisville. And though I grew up in the poor part of Louisville, called Portland, my mom and I had a good life, but I always knew I wanted to compete in sports. I was bigger than most of the other kids my age so I ended up playing on the eighth grade football team at St. Patrick's School even though I was only in the fifth grade. By the time I was in eighth grade, I was the starting quarterback. It was funny, our coach, Father William O'Hare, let me call all the plays because he knew nothing about football. I also developed an interest in kicking because no one else on the team had much interest in it. I basically taught myself, kicking ball after ball at the playground near our house at the Marine Hospital in Portland. And once I started doing it, I liked it. Later, when I went to Flaget High School, I'd practice kicking the ball over the basketball hoops on a playground on Bank Street. It's funny, I'd use my imagination while practicing my kicks, pretending there were just a few seconds left in the game and I had to make the field goal to win the game. It was also around this time that someone entered my life who would have a profound impact on me. Bill Shade, one of the great athletes in Louisville history, gave me my start. He was a great city player. The Louisville Colonels, the Class AAA affiliate of the Boston Red Sox, signed him to a contract and he seemed to be on his way, but then his wife got pregnant and they ended up having triplets. He was 23 or 24 at the time and just couldn't afford to be on the road playing baseball, so he gave it up. It was sad because he might have made it to the major leagues. He ended up getting a job with the union in Louisville and he always looked out for me. He saw that I had some abilities athletically and that's what drew him to me. Once he gave up his baseball career, he began playing fa