Yesterday I devoted time to the Green Bay Packers. As you know I am one of 112,000 stockholders. Yesterday was the annual stockholders meeting at Lambeau. Estimates were that 15,000 to 20,000 of us stockholders were in the stands. I told them I thought a dividend to owners was appropriate.
Laugh if you want but my investment made $12 million last year. Of course winning the Super Bowl helped with selling T-shirts and other memorabilia. Also my Packers paid off their loan that financed the new stadium 6-7 years ago. That is 4 years early. Paying off a loan early? That is unheard of.
Then last night I got to attend a “reading” of the play “Lombardi” at the PAC. It covered the championship years, in particular 1965. The lead character was an actor named Dan Lauria (he played Lombardi). He was excellent. The person who stole the show was Lombardi’s wife, Marie. She was funny, insightful and the one person who could always tell Vince he was full of sh–. Because I lived through the championship years, the stories were reminisent of those told at a family reunion.
Last, I have been talking to Ted Thompson about all the personnel changes we need to make. We let Cullen Jenkins go. We let lots of linebackers go including Poppinga. Our back-up running back Jackson is gone. We are going to re-arrange our offensive line. Tausher probably won’t be back and we lost Colledge (?) to free-agency. How am I ever going to get my fantasy football team right?
The Packers are part of the “fiber” of Wisconsin. Devoting a day to the green and gold occasionally is kind of fun!
Love,
Dad