Sandy Sullivan grew up in Mauston,
Wisconsin. After she graduated High
School she moved to Milwaukee to work for the Boston Store. While working there she was discovered as a
model and attended a modeling school.
After completing school she was offered a job that would forever change
her life. While working at the modeling
company Sandy received a phone call from a Mr. Tom Miller, Assistant General
Manager of the Green Bay Packers. He was
looking for a woman to run a booth at a tradeshow in Green Bay for the
Packers. He wanted a few ladies sent
over to interview. Sandy decided she
would like to interview so she went but was not hired. When she got home she received a call from
Tom Miller that changed her life forever.
When Sandy arrived to the tradeshow she was nervous and scared. She knew nothing about football. She was setting up the table when a man came
walking towards her and with a deep voice said, Sandy, I’m Vince Lombardi. He told her she had 1 objective while working
this booth and that was to sell season tickets because he had the winning
football team for 1961. It said it was
“our” year. He was going to put Green
Bay on the map, the Green Bay Packers were going to be the Champions of the
World and this was “our” winning year.
Lombardi taught Sandy everything she needed to know about football. He made her watch videos of the players and
she learned each and every one by their number.
To this day she remembers what player wore each number. Sandy was linked to such players as Paul
Hornung and Dan Currie throughout the years.
It was not until later in life that she decided to write a book about
her experiences with the Packers.
Modeled and tested by the Champions of Green Bay, Sandy expressed deep
and honest feelings about the lessons learned from relationships with players
which shaped and directed her life, and tells us what it was life for her to
run with the “PACK.”
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