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<blockquote data-quote="Thirteen Below" data-source="post: 1027355" data-attributes="member: 18006"><p>I was born in Waupaca, in 1957, and grew up north of Stevens Point. When you grew up in rural northern Wisconsin in the 60s Packers and deer hunting were pretty much all you had. No internet, no video games, 2 TV channels out of Wausau, and sometimes channel 13 from Eau Claire. Maybe a Green Bay station on a good day. We lived for the Packers, and the 60s were a hell of a time for kid to be a Packer fan.</p><p></p><p>My dad started taking me to Lambeau in 63, when I was 7. This trip to the Big City always included a roast beef sandwich at the Arby's at Mason and Military, which was like a steak dinner to me back then. I still pick up a couple of roast beef sandwiches at the local Arby's a few minutes for the game a lot of the time, as my pre-game ritual. I feel that adhering to that tradition has resulted in a lot of winning seasons over the past 20 or 30 years, and a couple of Lombardi's, so I do not plan to give it up. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.</p><p></p><p>I still have many of the autographs I got in the parking lot after games; not sure if that's a thing anymore. It'd be a shame if it's not. Paul Hornung, Jim Taylor, Donny Anderson.... Jerry Kramer, Fuzzy Thurston... Carrol Dale, Herb Adderley... I still remember the moment I got Bart Starr's autograph, 60 years ago this year. As though it was yesterday. I remember every single thing about it; the striped polo shirt he was wearing, the muscles on is forearms and hands standing out like cables while he signed, the godlike aura the man had about him, as though he was floating above the ground. He just had this.... presence. Can't explain it, but I sure noticed it, and still remember it. I expect I always will.</p><p></p><p>Even got Ray Nitschke's autograph, which I learned years later was a bit of a surprise. Apparently he and my dad had had some unpleasant personal history a few years prior, but either he didn't recognize my dad when he was sober or he was too nice of a guy to spoil a little kid's autograph. And he was a really nice man; asked me what I thought of the game, where my seat was, what was my favorite play - probably the scariest looking human being I'd ever met, but he made that 8-year old kid feel very special.</p><p></p><p>The years went by; teams came and went... quarterbacks came and went, coaches came and went, fortunes ebbed and flowed... Phil Bengston happened... Dan Devine happened, but we survived... Forrest Gregg happened, and life was hard.... but eventually, Ron Wolf happened too, and Mike Holmgren. Brett Favre happened, and Reggie White happened... Aaron Rodgers happened.... and now Matt Lafleur and Jordan love are happening.... and they've always been my Packers, and always will be.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Thirteen Below, post: 1027355, member: 18006"] I was born in Waupaca, in 1957, and grew up north of Stevens Point. When you grew up in rural northern Wisconsin in the 60s Packers and deer hunting were pretty much all you had. No internet, no video games, 2 TV channels out of Wausau, and sometimes channel 13 from Eau Claire. Maybe a Green Bay station on a good day. We lived for the Packers, and the 60s were a hell of a time for kid to be a Packer fan. My dad started taking me to Lambeau in 63, when I was 7. This trip to the Big City always included a roast beef sandwich at the Arby's at Mason and Military, which was like a steak dinner to me back then. I still pick up a couple of roast beef sandwiches at the local Arby's a few minutes for the game a lot of the time, as my pre-game ritual. I feel that adhering to that tradition has resulted in a lot of winning seasons over the past 20 or 30 years, and a couple of Lombardi's, so I do not plan to give it up. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. I still have many of the autographs I got in the parking lot after games; not sure if that's a thing anymore. It'd be a shame if it's not. Paul Hornung, Jim Taylor, Donny Anderson.... Jerry Kramer, Fuzzy Thurston... Carrol Dale, Herb Adderley... I still remember the moment I got Bart Starr's autograph, 60 years ago this year. As though it was yesterday. I remember every single thing about it; the striped polo shirt he was wearing, the muscles on is forearms and hands standing out like cables while he signed, the godlike aura the man had about him, as though he was floating above the ground. He just had this.... presence. Can't explain it, but I sure noticed it, and still remember it. I expect I always will. Even got Ray Nitschke's autograph, which I learned years later was a bit of a surprise. Apparently he and my dad had had some unpleasant personal history a few years prior, but either he didn't recognize my dad when he was sober or he was too nice of a guy to spoil a little kid's autograph. And he was a really nice man; asked me what I thought of the game, where my seat was, what was my favorite play - probably the scariest looking human being I'd ever met, but he made that 8-year old kid feel very special. The years went by; teams came and went... quarterbacks came and went, coaches came and went, fortunes ebbed and flowed... Phil Bengston happened... Dan Devine happened, but we survived... Forrest Gregg happened, and life was hard.... but eventually, Ron Wolf happened too, and Mike Holmgren. Brett Favre happened, and Reggie White happened... Aaron Rodgers happened.... and now Matt Lafleur and Jordan love are happening.... and they've always been my Packers, and always will be. [/QUOTE]
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