Saturday 1Jun19 Lambeau Field
1June19
Woke up at 7 to a sunny morning. Went into Walmart before breakfast to get some grapefruit. Bought some other food items including avocados. It is amazing at how much the price of avocados can swing betweens stores. As low as $.50 to as high as $1.50.. After breakfast a storm came up.
Stressed Wiggin of course.
I drove to where the Farmer's Market was supposed to be but there was just one seller there. I guess the rain scared everyone else off. The location was right next to a beach so I took Wiggin on a walk hoping it would calm him down. There was a couple of claps of thunder so that didn't help.
I then drove on to Green Bay. Once there I tried to find propane but once again the gas stations don't sell propane. I should have enough to make it through the weekend.
I then drove to Lambeau Field.
I parked and went to purchase a tour ticket. The tour didn't start for an hour and a half so I went back the the RT and watched part of the Detroit Indy Race.
I took the 4:45 tour. It lasted about an hour.
It is an amazing place. I have always like the Packers. The team was started by Lambeau who originally got a meat packing company to fund the team. This was before the NFL. When the NFL was organized he tried to get the packing company to pay the $250.00 franchise fee but they refused. He wound up paying the fee himself. So he got an NFL team for $250. The last franchise cost almost a billion.
When I was young I ate and slept football. I played at school, church and home. I remember the three other guys I played with in elementary school. Me and Ralf Spiva against Jimmy Tenor and Jeff Evans. Wow I remember hardly being able to contain myself during class waiting for recess to play football. We played before school and every recess.
Later a couple of brothers, Ted and Larry Williams moved into the neighborhood. We road a bus to and from school and every night I would get off at their house and we would play football until mom called and told me to get my butt home. I remember on one occasion she walked all the way to their house and chew me pretty good embarrassing the heck of me. The next day I got off the bus at Ted and Larry's and we played football! There was another boy, Tommy Mashburn that lived close by as well. It was always Ted and Tommy against Larry and me. Ted and Tommy won most of the time. Tommy was super fast. He developed a drinking problem a little later in life and died from liver disease before he ever reached his 40th birthday.
Sorry about all the grief Mom but I loved football.
After the tour I walked around the atrium.
I remember this game very well. I am sure I watched some of it with Dad. The thing was I couldn't just watch football I had to play it. This was before the brothers moved in the neighborhood so I had invented different ways to play by myself. One of my favorite positions was receiver. To play receiver by myself I would take a round ball, a foot ball wouldn't work, and throw it on the roof of the house several yards ahead of where I was standing. Then after throwing it I would take off running and catch it as it rolled off the roof. Dad told me many times not to throw a ball on the roof because it would damage the shingle but I had to play football. Sorry Dad!
The Packers won that game in the last minute when Bart Star ran a quarterback sneak. He was my first football hero. Sadly he passed away last Sunday while I was at the Indy 500.
After I was done in the stadium I went back to the RT and had dinner. I then drove a few minutes to a Walmart.