50th annual Bishop's Charities Game tonight at Lambeau Field

Bishop David Ricken gives the 2008 Most Valuable Player to Quarterback Aaron Rodgers prior to this year's Bishop's Charities Game at Lambeau Field August 22.
ESPN will televise the Colts contest in Week 3 to a national TV audience. This marks the eighth preseason contest between Indianapolis and Green Bay and the first since 1996. Also, the Colts game marks the 50th annual Bishop's Charities Game, a charitable contest initiated in 1961 by Vince Lombardi and the Diocese of Green Bay that has raised more than $3.4 million to date.
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Bishop David Ricken tosses a pass to Packers wide receiver Greg Jennings during pregame festivities at the 49th annual Bishop's Charities Game.

For more than 30 years, the church(Diocese of Green Bay) handled much of the game’s business-related tasks, including game program and advertising sales, using a network of volunteers covering 14 Northeastern Wisconsin counties. The Packers assumed many of those tasks in 1994. 
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By the way, Coach Mike McCarthy is a daily Mass goer like Coach Vince Lombardi was.  More on the Packers Catholic connection.

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2 comments:

Dad29 said...

Someday, get the book "When Pride Still Mattered"--a bio of Lombardi.

In that book, the author reproduced Lombardi's senior thesis (?) from his Fordham college days.

You will be delighted with what he wrote. "Good Old Days" Jesuit stuff, straightforward, solid, and CATHOLIC.

I highly recc the book to you and your readers!

Badger Catholic said...

Yup, I own it and read it. A great book.

... That was actually the first comment you posted on my blog talking about that book I think. How time flies. Good game tonight btw.