Word: lambeau
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Amazing how warm it was on Lambeau Field on Jan. 12. Standing in a wind-chill temperature way below zero, on a platform in the middle of the field, were select members of the Green Bay Packers, and standing in the stadium around them were 61,000 faithful, joyful, lungful fans. All of them were transported to a higher place than New Orleans, where the Packers will play the New England Patriots this Sunday. All of them were transported to an even better time than 1968, the last year the Packers went to the Super Bowl. That was then, this...
...threaten us," says White. "Shape up, or we're shipping you to Green Bay." Lost on some people are Wisconsin's other blessings: the pride in workmanship that links towns (Oshkosh, Kohler, Wausau) to products, the ingenuity that created the democratic charter of the Packers, the loyalty that keeps Lambeau Field sold out through thick and thin, the spirit of the people who shovel the snow out of the stadium for free...
There is a gentle but loopy quality to the Packers fan. The two things that most impress a visitor to Lambeau are the niceness of the people--a deputy sheriff giving his hand warmers to a Panthers rooter--and the outrageous, often ironic humor of Packers backers. The Cheesehead is the most obvious example, but at the N.F.C. Conference Game, one could also find guys with sod on their heads calling themselves "the Frozen Tundra"; a dead ringer for legendary linebacker Ray Nitschke, bald head, No. 66 and all; a man with a replica of the Lombardi Trophy given...
...most played dance tune in Wisconsin is, yes, the Packarena. The waiting list for season tickets is 30,000 names long; only the top five made the cut last year. On Jan. 25 the Packers will sell 25,000 specially designed boxes of "Frozen Tundra," pulled up from Lambeau after the Mud Bowl victory over the 49ers on Jan. 4, for $10 apiece. In typical Packers fashion, all proceeds will go to charity...
...matter what happens in New Orleans, they'll always have Green Bay that Sunday afternoon. Under a sky suddenly turned blue, the fans cheered their hearts out as the players came down off the platform. Some of the Packers did patented Lambeau Leaps into the laps of the parishioners. Favre and White held the Halas Trophy together for a while, and then White took off around the field to show it to the fans. He was bringing to them what they had brought...