How did you become a Packers fan?

My dad was born in Milwaukee and raised in Beloit, my mom was raised in Beloit from a young age. My dad recall's Sunday trips to his Uncles home in Chicago witnessing arguments over Packers-Bears football between his dad and uncle as they knocked down servings of Schlitz beer. I grew up with a Packers greats poster, printed in 1965, pinned to my bedroom door - it was my older brothers. Said poster now hangs in a protective frame in my son's room. So it's a birthright thing for me.

1965. I was 6 years old. Packers vs. Browns NFL Championship game on TV. Father & older brother were Browns fans, I just had to be the rebel! Strange that as a 6 year old I became obsessed with Lombardi more than the players. Read everything I could on him......still do! I guess it isn't surprising that my chosen profession has been psychologist / coach! 

We watched every Packer game on Sunday, listened to Bob Uecker while milking cows, and talked about the Badgers at coffee time.  

By injection.

now, give me the truth, Henry......

DNA...

When my dad was a kid, a few Packers players visited his school in California. He became a fan of them because of it and then raised me as one as well. The end

1992. My family was mostly college football fans, Hawkeyes through and through. Enter, my brother in law, from Wausau. I was 6. He was a packer fan and saw something special in #4, he names his oldest kid after him in April 93'. (They are much older than I. The rest is history, I fell in love with #4, and eventually the packers lore. 

Henry posted:

By injection.

Your dad was quite the romantic huh?

Henry posted:

By injection.

I should have done it that way.  It might have been less painful.

My Dad was a Packer fan, my neighbors were Packer fans - including a friend who lived in an apartment next door.  That friend would tell me about the Packers and then one day we watched together when my Dad was watching a Packer game.  He was trying to explain how the game worked and how the blocking worked on individual plays.  I simply did not understand.  But I started watching more with my Dad and eventually things started to make sense - you could say that was when I was hooked.  So I started studying the game.  One Sunday when my Dad had to go to Army Reserves, my Mom & sisters took over the TV.  So then I went outside where a neighbor noticed me.  She opened her window had asked why I wasn't inside watching the game.  When I told her she invited me into her house and I had soda and ice cream while watching the game - cool - in more ways than one. 

El-Ka-Smartypants posted:

We watched every Packer game on Sunday, listened to Bob Uecker while milking cows, and talked about the Badgers at coffee time.  

We listened to the Bucks, Badgers, and Brewers while milking cows. It was like Jim Irwin, Merle Harmon, and Bob Uecker were part of the family. 

I'm actually Travis Jervey

By sheer luck!

Born and raised in Green Bay.

Henry posted:

By injection.

Artificial or the old fashioned way?

1991 the then called World League of American Football started with a team in Frankfurt, and i had season tickets from the first moment. It then transformed into the NFL Europe which was eventually terminated in 2007. When everything started there was no internet, no smartphones and stuff... watching American Football on german TV was rare... but when i had the chance i watched everything i could get... mostly College Football in general, and the Irish in particular... but then i caught someone wearing a large piece of cheese on his head and i needed to know where this came from... then i watched Bert play and the rest is history and today i even am a shareholder... loved the Pack from the get go...

I became a Packer fan while watching my first pro football game as a kid on TV. It was the Cowboys vs The Packers in The Ice Bowl. Bart Starr diving over the line into the end zone sealed the deal for me.

CAPackFan95 posted:

I'm actually Travis Jervey

Loved you in muscle and fitness

Great story Stefan. 

Born and raised in Illinois....say no more.....

Started listening to the Packers on the radio in the back of my dad's station wagon where I was relegated to keep me from harassing my sisters. I quickly became captivated by the call on the radio and listened whenever I could. I got hooked in 1965.  We were on our way back from having Christmas at my grandma's and Packers were playing the Colts in the conference championship game. Pack won in OT on a Don Chandler field goal, but is was a tooth and nails game all the way. 

My Dad.
It was so cool to a very young boy, hanging out with Dad and watching football. In those days, however, getting to see the Packers on TV was a rarity other than the playoffs.
But once Dad started explaining the uniqueness of Green Bay, I was hooked.
And the rest is history....

Raised in Northern Wisconsin. Was 4 when the Lombardi Packers won their first title.

How could I not be a Packer fan?

Born and raised in Wauwatosa, started watching with my Grandpa circa 1980. Lynn Dickey, Gerry Ellis, James Lofton. Grandpa ALWAYS turned the TV sound down and listened to Jim Irwin and Max McGee. Max always made the game fun.

Moved to Boise in 1990, work trips to Asia, and family life - never miss a game. My 5 kids are all fans now too and have made the pilgrimage to Lambeau.

My brothers and I traveled back to Stevens Point, to watch XLV with Grandpa. Watched it in his retirement community apartment and brought the house down when they won. Grandpa passed last year at age 93 - watched his last Packer game while being fed through a nose tube.

The Pack is my team, because the Pack to me, is Family.

That's awesome! 

I became a Packer fan in 1962 when my friend, who I played highschool football with, was drafted 56th overall by the Packers in 1962. Ron Gassert, DT,  Virginia, and was a member of that years championship team. Ron went to college, I went in the Army. I have two shares of stock, a brick on the walkway and have been to Lambeau for 2 games.

Folks ask me why I am still a Packer fan after all these years and living in Alabama. My reply is that the Packers are publicly owned and represent the best of American Football in terms of true careing about their players in that the team picks people with good character and morals.  Go Pack Go!!!

Well, you all have better stories than I do.

I was 7 in 1973 and the Packers were not really doing so hot. 

My younger brother and I used to play a lot of cowboys and indians back then and I was always the cowboy. it was the end of summer, school was comming up fast and some of my older brothers decided we would play football in the back yard. we had to pick a team that we would pretend to be.

well, I said that we were going to be the cowboys. It did not go over too well with every one of my brothers except my younger brother, but he still wanted to be the Redskins. Our older brothers were really quite pissed about this and asked us why.

I told them that Cowboys are cool, Dennis thought Indians were cool and that was our explanation. well, we did not know this difference between real cowboys and Indians and the teams. We were only 5 and 7...

Well, to make a long story short, they beat the crap out of us as only big brothers can do.

And, they continued beating the crap out of us until we conceded that the Packers were the greatest team in the history of the world.

Eventually I did see the light and became a true fan of the Packers.

But, I must admit to having also been a fan of the Steelers during the 70's as well.

But, never the Bears, Vikings or Lions. Although, I do respect the history of the Bears.

born this way.  grew up and reside within 40 minutes of Lambeau.  watching the game on Sunday with Dad was a way of life.  it's a tie that binds - friends and family, near and far.

Father was from Burlington and a rabid Packer fan. It was in the DNA and I really didn't have much of a choice.

Grew up in Appleton.  What else was there to do?

I grew up 1 block from Lambeau and spent my Sunday afternoons parking cars and listening to games with the window open instead of the TV volume.

41 years after going on the list (and after my father passed away), 4 season tickets came my (and my brother's) way.

FLPACKER posted:

1965. I was 6 years old. Packers vs. Browns NFL Championship game on TV. Father & older brother were Browns fans, I just had to be the rebel! Strange that as a 6 year old I became obsessed with Lombardi more than the players. Read everything I could on him......still do! I guess it isn't surprising that my chosen profession has been psychologist / coach! 

We're from Beloit as well

moved to TExas in the 80s. one early memory was wearing a packers sweatshirt to school that my grandma gave me on the day the Packers got blown out on Monday night football to Ditkas Bears (Perry run). I got so much **** at school the next day. from that day on I plotted my revenge...

When I was a toddler in Nortern CA I was given a stuffed purple dinosaur to play with in my crib. I tore it to pieces in 15 minutes. 

I didn't start out a Packer fan. It was just destiny. 

Born and raised in Western WI, was turned off by the epic suck of the team to the west.

Just kidding, came of age during the glorious 70's and 80's Pack lost years.

My kids have not known playoff football without the Packers.  They think it is a birthright.

Spoiled brats.

I was born in Green Bay in 1970 and named after Bart Starr.  

My first item of clothing was a GBP onesy. 

I have always felt and have been told that I was born a Packers fan. 

I hit 10 in 79, so I missed the glory years.  But, on Sundays (well Saturdays for Bucky) it was hanging out with Mom.  Dad was always out puttering around.  So I grew up with the Badgers on the Radio and the Packers on TV on Sunday with Mom.

Yeah we weren't great, but I think the name Gerry Ellis really drew me in, just because I guess I liked the name. But it really got down to going to Chicago pretty much every major holiday and having to watch the Bores just slaughter us year after year.  That galvanized me and now I am an owner.

I am done rambling, but I could write a novella on why. 

This suffices for now!

Growing up in Fond Du Lac I began watching Pro Football during the 1977 season while I was in the 3rd grade but don't remember a single Packer game from that season, just Cowboys and Steelers games.  Neither team really struck me as one I wanted to root for.  The first NFL game I truly remember watching from start to finish was Super Bowl XII Cowboys over Broncos.  

Then came 1978 and the Green Bay Packers had their first winning season in 6 years (they would have only 2 more winning seasons before 1992 after that one).  I became a fan and loved that team even though they lost out to the Vikings for the division title.  I remember David Whitehurst, Terdell Middleton, James Lofton, Ezra Johnson, and Willie Buchanon as some of the main guys from that team.

Who knows, if that 1978 team hadn't been a winner, I might not have fallen so hard for the Pack, but that 6-2 start really lured me in and I was hooked for life.

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Henry posted:

By injection.

One Sunday when my Dad had to go to Army Reserves, my Mom & sisters took over the TV.  So then I went outside where a neighbor noticed me.  She opened her window had asked why I wasn't inside watching the game.  When I told her she invited me into her house and I had soda and ice cream while watching the game - cool - in more ways than one. 

Dear Penthouse....

one of my early childhood memories is of watching Desmond Howard return tha KO in the Super Bowl. There was no going back from there.