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...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...
...year in a row. "Honors are great," said the quarterback, "but what I'm after is the Super Bowl. If I don't win that, everything else will go by the wayside." With a victory in Super Bowl XXXI will come redemption - for Favre, for the Packers and for Titletown. What could possibly be more American than that...
...Reggie White was six, and Brett Favre hadn't been born yet. Winning was once the only thing in Green Bay, but after Vince Lombardi left in 1968, it became only an occasional thing, even when such legendary Packers as Bart Starr and Forrest Gregg took over as coach. Titletown, U.S.A., became something of a joke. As Willie Davis, the Reggie White of his day, said last week, "I was beginning to think, like a lot of people, can it ever happen again in Green Bay in my life...
Cambridge is titletown again...
...become a purgatory for its coach. Part of the reason is that the ghost of the revered Vince Lombardi still haunts the town. During the '60s he led the then awesome Packers to five National Football League championships and gave Green Bay an excuse to call itself "Titletown, U.S.A." Even now noon Masses are canceled on Sundays when Packer road games are telecast back home at that hour; music piped through the halls of the local Ramada Inn is supplanted on Sunday afternoons by radio coverage of "the Pack...