Book & Podcast coming August 2026
The Book
Just like Vince Lombardi’s legendary football team, the Packer wives of the 1960s found themselves at the epicenter of a cultural revolution as they negotiated race relations and burgeoning fame in a tiny city most of them had to look up on a map.
They sent their husbands off to training camp with brown-bagged lunches; worried about player cuts and season-ending injuries; fed and counseled sweaty players in the middle of their two-a-day workouts; hosted integrated dances; broke curfew on the eve of the first Super Bowl to rendezvous with their husbands; played practical jokes with the players’ jockstraps; nursed their husbands’ bruised bodies and battered egos long before the emergence of team dietitians and sports psychologists. They made mistakes, made up, and made lifelong friends.
In a Real Housewives of the NFL meets Hard Knocks story, the wives of eight NFL Hall of Famers and 11 other members of the Lombardi Packers give us a behind-the-scenes look at life in Green Bay, Wisconsin during a decade that dramatically changed a city, a franchise, the NFL, a nation and the world.
Pre-order the Lambeau Ladies book beginning July 2026!
The Podcast
These Packer wives knew how to model a mini skirt and throw a perfect spiral. They integrated a small Wisconsin city in the midst of the national civil rights movement, hosting cocktail parties and wearing their grandma’s pearls.
Young, curious and deeply in love, these women came to Green Bay to support their husbands and found themselves at a crossroads, facing the hot lights of fame and the coldest winters most of them had ever known.
This podcast is for football fans, believers in dreams and any sucker for a good love story.
Lambeau Ladies podcast releasing August 2026!
The Authors & Hosts
Laura Kostelnik Biskupic cut her teeth as a sportswriter covering the Chicago Bears the season after they won Super Bowl XX. Then she Super Bowl Shuffled her way back to her native Wisconsin where she covered a wide array of professional sports and wrote about the good guys in a Where Are They Now series for the Appleton Post Crescent. She also taught high school journalism, worked as marketing director and launched the popular blog she’s hosted for the past 13 years. The daughter of Green Bay Packer Hall of Famer Ron Kostelnik, Laura grew up in the shadow of Lambeau Field and under the watchful eyes of the Packer wives. She has loved and admired the team behind Lombardi’s Packers since she was old enough to hug.
Katherine Biskupic is a comedy writer based in Los Angeles via the Midwest. Trained at Second City, she won the top award at their Works by Women Fest before moving to Los Angeles and selling a sports comedy pilot to Audible. With her comedy duo, she has headlined and performed at comedy festivals all over the country, from New York to Seattle and all the places with lower gas prices in between. Her videos have been featured on Funny or Die, Vulture, UPROXX and USA Today. She still roots for the Packers every Sunday despite being surrounded by a plethora of vegan “cheese.”
