Before Donald Driver and his family caught a flight out of town Wednesday, number 80 made one last stop.Read more at Fox 11. And check out the video.
It was at a home in Bellevue. FOX 11 had been there Tuesday to show her salute to Driver. While we were there, the long-time Packers fan told us of her wish.
"He is my idol. I was a cancer survivor, and I just hope someday I can get a big hug from him," said Angie LeRoy, Packers fan.
LeRoy, 78 years old, decorated her door to honor Driver's career. Little did she know what would happen one day later.
One of my favorite things about living in Wisconsin and being a Packer fan is how deeply little old ladies care about football. Sadly, my wife is a Bears fan from Illinois.* She has always been amazed at Sconnie females' interest in the games.
Back in 2006, I took Laura to her first NFL game, which we went to to celebrate my birthday. It was one of those freezing cold December games, so we dropped into K-Mart outside the stadium to get some hand and foot warmers. Strolling down the aisle was an older woman decked out in green and gold face paint.
It took Laura about three days to stop laughing. In her tragic life as a Chicagoan, sports were a chance for men to watch the games while the ladies made food and chatted about...whatever it is ladies chat about. She got a pretty thorough education for our first Thanksgiving trip to see my family as husband and wife. The Packers beat up on the Lions that day, and Laura nearly went deaf sitting in between my mom and grandma, who spent the better part of three and a half hours shouting at the TV.
*Though she has more Packer clothes than Bear clothes and roots for Green Bay unless it's Packers-Bears week.
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7 comments:
The Packers beat up on the Lions that day,
Surprise, surprise...
Wisconsin women have been more manly than Illinois women for generations, hence their proclivity to be better Packers fans than their men. This is why contributors of this blog went out-of-state to choose their wives. Relatedly, Wisconsin woman would probably be better football players than the Packers players as well. Frankly, I'm surprised the fans haven't encouraged the women to suit up yet. I just chalk it up to generational and geographical satisfaction with mediocrity.
Larry: This must be post Barry Sanders era.
Diemish: When I see how Chicago quarterbacks propose to their fiancees, it does not surprise me that they have to go north to find good men. I'm not sure if the Blessed Virgin Mary would agree with your assessment of Wisconsin women(since she is one), maybe you can ask her when she visits Illinois.
To describe Culter as a quarterback is like describing the Packers as a professional football team: both are exceedingly wild exaggerations. The mere fact that he take snaps beneath center until he tweaks his knee, whereupon he hurriedly exits the game, does not make him a quarterback anymore than grown men in dark green and gold uniforms running around a field calling themselves the Packers are a football team. Also, Cutler is from Georgia, not Illinois. Illinois men treat their women like women. Wisconsin men treat their women like pals at a sporting event. Furthermore, Our Lady appeared to Adele prior to the degradation of the Wisconsin woman, which coincidentally happens to be prior to the formation of the Green Bay Packers.
You hire a Canadian football coach and claim the Packers are not a professional football team?
Next thing you are going to tell us is that Obama is not from Illinois? I think it's time to man up and take it, these people were probably fine before they stepped foot into Bear country. Of course, if manning up is a problem, we have women up here who could teach you how it works.
Diemish: I WILL TAKE YOUR MOTHER, DOROTHY MANTOOTH, OUT FOR A NICE SEAFOOD DINNER. AND THEN NEVER CALL HER AGAIN.
Everyone knows Obama is from Kenya...
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