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Guaranteed Human.

This is Lee Habib, and this is Our American Stories,

the show where America is the star and the American people.

Americans have a love affair with their sports teams, their home sports teams,

and not many cities love their home sports football team like the people in Green Bay,

who actually own their football team and the legendary field that Vince Lombardi made famous, the iconic coach,

talking about Lambeau Field.

This next story comes to us from John Elfner, a frequent contributor.

Here to tell his story, a Lambo Field story, is John Elfner.

I grew up in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and there are sports towns, but Green Bay is not a sports town. Green Bay is a Packers town.

Seventies and 80s when I was growing up, every Sunday that the Packers were playing at home,

it was the biggest event of the year every time, which is a little surprising because the

Packers weren't that good.

There were the perennial 8 and 8th, 70s and 80s Packers.

Green Bay is not big, and if you'd just be going around town, you'd bump into Packers. I remember playing a game

of pickup football at the gym with John Anderson and Rich Wingo, our star linebackers. Ken Bowman,

who was the center for the Packers and all those Super Bowls in the 60s, he was my freshman

football coach. So that's what I mean when I say this was a Packers Town. The Packers organization had a very interesting

arrangement. The whole section of the stadium was a kids section. No parents in

sight. It was just hundreds of kids between fifth and eighth grade. When

you graduated from eighth grade you had to give up your ticket and the tickets

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