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...foot of snow two weeks ago left Green Bay, Wisconsin, with a white Christmas and the Packers with a problem: Lambeau Field had to be cleared to prepare it for the National Football Conference divisional playoff game on Jan. 4. So Ted Eisenreich, the Packers' buildings supervisor, did what he usually does in similar situations. He put out the word in the mill town of 96,466 that he needed 200 shovelers to dig out the field at $6 an hour. Dozens had to be turned away, while still others offered to work for free. "I don't want...
...Barnes had maintained that the Cowboys' status as the national team was justified because the city, the owner, the fans and the character of the team were all reflective of conservative America. Gigot, who confessed that his mother is one of the Packers' 1,915 shareholders, countered that Green Bay embodies tradition, communal loyalty, volunteerism and decentralized management, and is therefore the conservative's Dream Team. (See sports pictures taken by Walter Iooss...
...Packer knit cap, a Packer checker set, a Packer piggy bank, a miniature Packer helmet and several autographed Packer photos, which he wrote away for, all by himself. He is currently reading Run to Daylight!, by Vince Lombardi. So for his sake, we would like to see Green Bay...
...Packers are also the romantic's Dream Team. It's a Wonderful Life gets mentioned in Green Bay stories almost as often as "frozen tundra" and "Titletown, U.S.A." do. Perhaps the best tradition, among the many, in Titletown is the bike ride. Every year on the first day of training camp, local kids ride their bicycles to the practice field, and each player adopts a girl or boy, whose bike he rides from the field to the locker room for the rest of the year. (Some Cowboys apparently have a similar tradition involving "self-employed models...
...attraction proved too strong, though, and the library ended up shutting its doors before midnight to keep the hoards at bay...