Green Bay January 2004

They wouldn't allow us to go on the field, cause that would be like trespassing or something, so Dan and I knelt down and felt the grass. We almost got kicked off of the tour causing mischief, but the guides kind of laughed it off, and let us be. They figured that it would be the closest that we would ever get to the football field. We'll show them someday, all of them.

Now we are sitting on the cold benches, with just a few rows separating us from the field. This is a picture of that very tunnel that we had just walked through. I longed to run back down that tunnel and dwell forevermore within the bowels of Lambeau Field, playing the organ with a disfigured face hidden by a mask. Oh wait, that's the Phantom of the Opera.

Could you imagine being here for 8 Sundays (or Mondays) during the regular season? Can you imagine what it would look like to sit in these seats? Oh wait, you don't have to imagine what it looks like because I am showing exactly what it would look like to sit in these seats for a game. This is precisely where Ahman Green would leap after scoring a touchdown. Now that would be some money well spent for these seats.

I took a picture of the goal posts just because I thought that it looked cool. It's like one of those pictures that you see up on the wall. Nice.

They wouldn't let us perform the Lambeau Leap (for safety reasons,) and we got rather upset. That would make one hell of a video, but not even a clean crisp Washington could persuade them. So in a rather defiant act of insubordination, Dan did the Lambeau SLeep. Chances are that that was the first time in Packers history that anyone has ever seen that celebration.

The kids (Jenny, Scott, and Dan) sat on the benches for maybe the only time that they could while still being young. I hear the waiting list for season tickets is like 60 years or something, so by the time we actually get them, we just might be too old to actually make it to the game. That's alright, because I will happily watch sitting in my wheelchair at the nursing home.

One thing that I noticed is that Lambeau Field looked so much smaller in real life than it does on TV. This was not my first time here, but it has been at least 10 years since I last set foot here. Maybe it's the fact that the stadium was empty. I guess it's because when there 72,515 fans in the stands, it just looks a lot bigger.

This cross-beam was signed by everyone (or every company) that worked on the renovation of Lambeau Field. Blah blah blah, boring information, I know. But I thought that Otis Elevator was a funny name for a company. It just sounds like a ghetto company, like the mo'fo-co car wash, but in actuality it could be a well respected and just venture.