Ex Packer Helps Raise Money For New Library

Former Green Bay Packers’ linebacker George Koonce helps raise money for a new library in central Wisconsin. He was in Colby during the weekend, where he promoted his new book “Is There Life After Football; Surviving the N-F-L” — and he raised funds for a new Colby Public Library where a former school administration building used to be. The 49-year-old Koonce, who won a Super Bowl with Green Bay in the 1996 season, says he drank too much and suffered from depression after he retired from the Packers in 2000. It affected him at U-W Milwaukee, where he was the athletic director for a little more than one year ending in 2010 — and he lost his first wife to cancer. He and his current wife Gina now live in Fond du Lac, where he’s a senior vice president at Marian University after he earned a P-H-D degree from Marquette.