Did you know that I'm from Titletown, USA? That is correct. Not only am I from Wisconsin, but I am from the most Wisconsin of all Wisconsin cities: Green Bay. Did you know that the Green Bay Packers won the Super Bowl last year? You should know that. I know it, and I was living in a developing country with only two hours of running water a day!
One of my favorite parts of being home is the ability to watch Packer games on TV, without the power going out, and without the announcers talking in metric (I don't want to know how many kilos a player weights or how many meters tall he is!). Last weekend I flew home for a family wedding. I knew I would be home in time to watch the Packer game on TV, and made plans to hang out with my brother to watch the game at his house. (Sibling bonding is much easier when you are both in the same country.
When I landed in Milwaukee, I turned on my phone to a picture message from my brother that looked like this:
(The message said, "We are going to the game tonight.)So, I got home, changed into some Green and Gold, and made my way to Lambeau Field, passing Holmgren Way. If you ever doubted that this town is all about football, you just have to look at the names of the streets to see the legends memorialized.
As I was driving, I just kept thinking, my brother is pretty cool. I hope these seats are as cool as he is. And, they were. Great seats in the south end zone corner. Below of the pictures of the game:
(Green Bay, in the process of beating the Chiefs.)
(A very full Lambeau Field.)
I've clearly been going to too many sporting events on the East Coast, because I mentioned to my brother just how darn pleasant everyone was at the game tonight. Maybe it's the fact that there are 100,000 people in Green Bay and the stadium fits some 65,000, so everyone bascially knows each other? That, or there is just something magical about Lambeau Field.
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