Titus said...
I went to some games with my dad when they played at Milwaukee Stadium.
It was fucked up.
1/2 the field was a baseball stadium and the seating layout (a baseball stadium) sucked. Everyone had a flask of liquor, my dad's had brandy. He loves brandy old fashions-he is so Wisconsin.
I think that was around the Lynn Dickey time.
I wouldn't want the name Lynn Dickey or Peter Dinklage.
tits.
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It was actually County Stadium, not Milwaukee Stadium.
Same shit, different pile. Just sayn'
Titus is absolutely correct. Lambeau is one of the best venues for football and County Stadium was the worst. All of the Milwaukke people had a shit fit when the Packers in the 90's ceased playing 3 games annually in Milwk., but it was the right decision. And, County Stadium was much closer for me, but it was a no brainer if you were objective.
No brainer is apt.
I had really poor seats when I was at County Stadium for Packer games. I was still glad to be there though.
I had seats for the Packer games played at County Stadium in Milwaukee. It was a lousy venue. I kept the season tix when the Milwaukee games were transferred to Lambeau.
When Lambeau was re-built a few years back they wanted a $10,000 per seat fee, plus the cost of season tickets. That was too rich for my blood, so I let go of the tickets.
Lambeau is gorgeous, not in the Texas Stadium showy way, but in the way a true football stadium should look, feel and sound.
People make pilgrimages to Lambeau. We stopped there on summer Saturday for lunch at Curley's Clubhouse and saw two bus loads of Japanese tourists pull up. Everyone got out and clicked hundreds of pictures of the stadium, the statues and each other.
Their translator told me that the group was Japanese who were ardent fans of American football. They had flown from Tokyo to Chicago then boarded coach buses to Green Bay just to visit Lambeau Field.
In the off season, if you take the tour of the facility, you are allowed to walk down the tunnel and onto the hallowed turf, following the footsteps of Lombardi, Starr, Nietschke, McGee, Hornung, Taylor, Favre, Lofton and all the other Packer greats.
If you go to Giants stadium they steal your car and give you cab fare to the Holland Tunnel.
I am a stadium freak. I have said this before but I had a three ring binder full of every stadium of every pro and college football team, by conference, with the capacity it could hold. I did this when I was like 12.
I would also put a little 0 in the stadium to represent how many people it could hold.
I love Lambeau and Camp Randall.
My fav is University of Michigan though.
Do you know which stadium holds the most people?
And I always wondered why the new stadiums being built decided not to hold more people.
We always expect more but the newer pro stadiums hold less than some of the big college stadiums.
Trooper,
I know you only ball-bust and joke around lightly with commenters who have a sense of humor (a couple worthy, more famous exceptions noted), but I saw this picture on Buzzfeed and thought it would be a hilarious allusion to Seven Machos' love of a certain white powder. Just sayin'.
I mean, I know he doesn't really hang out in a lot of places online, apart from a certain place... But that is a hilarious pic and if you could find some way to work it into a post, that would be hilarious. Unfortunately, I don't think there's a way to do it without being a little, well, mean. Which isn't really your style, thankfully.
But regardless of what you do or don't do with it, it's definitely a hilarious photo and deserves a mugshot of the year award.
John Wayne on human nature...
Awesome!
Brett Favre's bro got pardoned!
Play ball.
Seven Machos has a thing about powdered sugar?
Just got done watching The Duke in "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance." I always wish someone beat him to death; shooting him was too merciful.
Haz: Your loss was my family's gain. Dad took us to pre-season games in the early 70s and got himself on the waiting list for season tickets to Lambeau Field. He waited for over 30 years. When the expansion happened and his number came up, my sister was able to take advantage of it. So they got a 4-pack of seats which are able to be transferred to 1st degree descendants only. Packer tickets are a family heirloom.
Ruth-Anne - Thanks! Nice to know my tickets are still "in the family".
By the way, the priest was wearing green and gold vestments at Mass this morning.
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