green bay in the early years probably through better on the , partlyn it did at home because of the high school .ivalry between east and west partly, it was just the size of the city. fortunately, posing owners, players, and coaches love coming here in the 1920's. dan daly and bob o'donnell wrote in "pro football chronicles," which is a history of the national football league, that one of the reasons why they love coming here -- and i think it is very true -- was that this was an open city. ♪ ♪ speakeasies opened all over downtown that fans could go to after games, and there were also red light districts in the neighboring towns. whoever could go out and enjoy whatever they had to offer, and i think that was the reason that so many loved to come here. i don't want to cast any aspersions on joe carr, the president of the national football league, and a very upstanding moral, religious man, but when he brought his columbus team in 1922, they drew a very sparse crowd because of the heavy rainstorm. yet when he left town, he talked about how much his traveling party loved green bay, love the