As most of you know, I reside in the land where it’s culturally acceptable to wear a wedge of cheese on your head.  For two years I’ve had to put up with entire sports segments (or more!) on the local newscasts talk nothing but the Green Bay Packers… and that was only during preseason!  I then had the ‘joy’ of having to live through a Super Bowl loss from my beloved Steelers at the hands of the Packers.  Prior to the big game, the trash talk was flying all over the office.  I walked around with a bullseye on my back taking the jokes, jabs and criticism in stride.  And, I’ll have to be honest – most of these Cheeseheads around here (at least where I work) won rather gracefully.  But, that didn’t make the pill any smaller to swallow.

My time here in Milwaukee and the current evolution of circumstances has brought a bit of a love-hate relationship with the Green Bay Packers and its fans.  Little did I know that the work that I do would change how I view this team, its fans and its history.

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