MY FATHER AND CURLY LAMBEAU.

MY FATHER AND CURLY LAMBEAU. The Green Bay Packers have had a wonderful year and are in the playoffs. Our family are Packer fans because my father grew up in Green Bay. My father’s high school football coach was Curly Lambeau, the founder of the Packers, and the namesake for Lambeau Field. When my father talked about his high school team, he talked about Jim Crowley, who played on the team and went on to be one of the all time great football players as one of the Four Horsemen of Notre Dame. My father always smiled happily when he told of how he played second string and Lambeau yelled at him every day in practice because he could often get his hands on Crowley, but he could never tackle him. It was a comfort when it became clear in time that a lot of players had trouble tackling Crowley.