Hang out with ex-Packers RB Alex Green
Join us Monday night. He has a harrowing life story to share.
Good morning, readers. And welcome to everyone new to Go Long.
What a pleasure to have you all as part of our community.
Our goal — always — is to bring you as close as humanly possible to real pro football. One way to achieve this? Letting you ask players anything you’d like with these Zoom “Happy Hour” sessions.
Paid subscribers can join former Green Bay Packers running back Alex Green this Monday night at 7 p.m. (EST). The link is below.
You may remember the 2011 third-round pick on the football field. Green rushed for 464 yards on 135 carries in 2012 for a Packers team that won the NFC North. His rise to the NFL is inspiring alone. For an entire semester at Butte Community College, this is a back who was sleeping inside his Chevy Lumina at a Wal-Mart parking lot. I first got to know the running back for this feature at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
But Alex Green’s greatest achivement is everything he has accomplished off the field.
Green, now a father of three, overcome a gripping addiction to alcohol and drugs, specifically cocaine.
Icymi, he opened up on it all with Go Long for this Q&A. The audio of our conversation can also be heard on Apple, Spotify and YouTube. This most certainly is a man who escaped the abyss.
Now, he has made it his mission to help everyone he can by sharing his story. Follow Green on X @AGreen_20.
And ask Green anything you’d like this Monday night on football, life, the Packers today. He’s an open book. He won’t disappoint.
Icymi, here’s our two-part series on the Chicago Bears & Caleb Williams — Part I & Part II.
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