here come's your 19 below zero nervous breakdown
it's beginning. I notice on the weather they no longer call it a "polar vortex" here. Now it's just a "blast". yeah, it's a real blast all right. but bring it on - we're making ice and the fishing will begin!
That '83 christmas was an epic. Going to school in Madison and drove back to GB with my wife. Just past Sun Prairie we see a disabled car. Cracked engine block. It's my brother and his wife, who live in the same aaprtment complex. We pack them and their gifts into our little Mazda and get to Green Bay. Staying at my inlaws, with a heated attached garage. Next morning the Mazda won't start. FIL scoffs at me for owning a Jap piece of crap (he wasn't wrong). His Chrysler aircraft carrier won't start either.
I was a 10 year old idiot (my mom told us so) outside in a tee shirt jumping around bare footed after the Ice bowl victory but I don't remember anything as cold as the winter of 1983.
Cows make excellent space heaters but those big old barns let most of the heat rise into the hay mow. One uncle had a single story milking parlor in the UP with an attached pole building for hay. You could milk in a tee shirt in the dead of winter.
Fandame posted:Did you have those big, ol' milk cans?
Oh yeah. Still have a few of them in the milk house.
MICHIGANPACKER - Slacker 
. My dad got up at 4:30 and in the barn by 4:45. I had to do the milking (20 cows) with my mom when he went up north to help my brother. We were first on the route and the "milkman" came at 7:00. Small locally owned cheese factory - brick cheese. I was still in high school so those were some long days.
We need an "old geezers reminisce" forum. 
Pikes Peak posted:When you were kids did your mothers and grandmothers worry and warn you endlessly about he chutes in the hay barn?
A bunch of brothers who grew up on a farm rode our school bus. One of them (probably the slower one) jumped through the chute and didn't tuck his arms in. He had a scarecrow cast for the next several months.
QuietOne posted:- brick cheese.
In a world with many wonderful cheeses, if I could only eat one for the rest of my life...
Once it reaches three months, the cheese produces its notorious smell...
QuietOne posted:Fandame posted:Did you have those big, ol' milk cans?
Oh yeah. Still have a few of them in the milk house.
MICHIGANPACKER - Slacker
We need an "old geezers reminisce" forum.
I ended up going to graduate school and run a research lab. Wisconsin sports are my main tie back to my farm days in Wisconsin. When I started in graduate school my grandfather asked me what my typical day was and I described it to him (I typically worked about 11 hours a day, 6 days a week). His response was that didn't sound like work at all. To him, it seemed like I wasn't working enough hours and sitting and doing experiments didn't sound like real work.
Yep.
QuietOne posted:Fandame posted:Did you have those big, ol' milk cans?
Oh yeah. Still have a few of them in the milk house.
MICHIGANPACKER - Slacker
We need an "old geezers reminisce" forum.
Milk cows, go to school, milk cows, fix what was broke, homework, bed. Rinse and repeat. And that was just in Winter. Add in field work for the other 3 seasons. Started with 60 head, ended with 200.
Henry posted:QuietOne posted:Fandame posted:Did you have those big, ol' milk cans?
Oh yeah. Still have a few of them in the milk house.
MICHIGANPACKER - Slacker
We need an "old geezers reminisce" forum.
Milk cows, go to school, milk cows, fix what was broke, homework, bed. Rinse and repeat. And that was just in Winter. Add in field work for the other 3 seasons. Started with 60 head, ended with 200.
Feed calves and feed to cows hay starting when you are about 4 years old. Then you get to graduate to cleaning out calf pens a few years later. Then you get to milk cows a few years later.
The most work though was sitting at the top of a hay mow on a 95 degree day and stacking bales for about 10 hours (with a few short breaks between wagon loads) to beat the rain.
I am amazed at how this discussion morphed but I thoroughly enjoyed reading every post. Fandame's comment about the warm barn really created a lot of interest and the comment about the winter of 83 led to this comment from my wife (We were stationed in Stuttgart Germany) and it was a very cold winter but a storm from the east moved in and it got so cold about half the cars in the city had frozen batteries (mine included) when I went outside to see what could be done I opened the hood and not only was the battery frozen solid but there was a rat that crawled up in to try and get warm and he was a rodent- sickle. So after my wife gets done screaming I am off to the store to buy the most expensive battery they sell at a 200% markup because I was slowest to the store that day.. It was more than a car payment so I am sure I will never that winter of 83
I think that was the same winter where I was home and it was so cold and the wind so strong that the heavy-duty plastic on the outside of my parents' windows cracked and snapped like gunshots. Once loose, those frozen flags were snapping through the air like razors. It's a wonder they didn't actually break the windows.
Doing hay on a 95-degree day was when I had my first taste of beer -- I think I was 10. Later, when I was able to have my own, I discovered there's nothing like an ice-cold beer after pitching hay bales for 10 hours in the summer heat and humidity.
Yup a 1/4 barrel of People's after haying or threshing with all the uncles and neighboring farmers is one of my favorite memories. My grandpa had a team of horses, Nancy and Sluggo pulling the combine. Grandma and the aunts would cook up a storm for everyone.....cold cuts at noon and a big meal at supper. Much like Fandame this was the start of my long lived beer drinking career. Having a Full Sail Pilsner as I type.
Sweet!
Pikes Peak: You make smile at the beer memories: Like most on this board I suspect enough beer has passed through our systems to fill a pretty big swimming pool, but my favorite is Weizen beer and you guys are so right a really cold beer with your friends after a hard day is the best!
I loved driving tractor in the summer. Suntan time. 
Yup. My dad kept telling my mom he would teach her to drive the tractor and she always refused. "If I learn how, I'll be doing it all the time," she'd say.
So tomorrow is the 50th anniversary of the Ice Bowl.
I check the tube to see if anybody is running a documentary or Greatest Games Ever Played flick about it in the next few days. Nope.
Our broadcast media is just so bad these days. I get that it's bowl season and week 18 but still. Maybe we'll get something in the SB run-up.
So I just replayed the America's Game done by NFLN on the 1967 Packers (available On Demand via NFLN). Outstanding. The Sabols producing, Tom Selleck narrating, Jerry Kramer, Dave Robinson and Chuck Mercein reminiscing, Bart amazing and Vince everywhere. The Ice Bowl segment is about 10 minutes and is perfectly done given the time constraints.
Whenever I watch or listen to those clips I'm an 11 year-old again jumping up and down with my parents and sibs looking out over our frozen lake and thinking that life is so good. And it was.
Been following this twitter account the past 3 years. Jeff Ash's project. Good stuff.
12/29/1967: “The weather really doesn’t seem that bad,” Cowboys quarterback Don Meredith says as he heads to a team meeting at the hotel …
— Packers Dynasty (@packers656667) December 30, 2017
12/29/1967: “It’s not as cold as I thought it would be. I’m glad it warmed up for us,” Cowboys linebacker Lee Roy Jordan says …
— Packers Dynasty (@packers656667) December 30, 2017
Came across this on Youtube, the guy who did this should be thanked. The full game with the radio calls, pregame, and postgame stuff is included
I recently saw the documentary ‘The Timeline - The Ice Bowl’ done by Michael Meredith (Dandy Don’s son). He did a marvelous job interviewing players from both teams who played in the game. I came away with a new appreciation for players, fans, and all involved that day. Numerous players did not think they would play because of the weather. I believe it’s available via NFL films.
Slobknocker posted:Came across this on Youtube, the guy who did this should be thanked. The full game with the radio calls, pregame, and postgame stuff is included
This is great stuff. If you catch the lockeroom interview with Starr, you get a glimpse of what wouldn't fly in today's pc world (Brookshier asking Starr about playoff money and what the wives would get) and also the absolute class and humility of Bart Starr....taking blame for his sacks, saluting his oline, and praising his opponent. Nobody like him today.
Nowadays they'd be asking what the baby mamas are getting.
54 years and counting.
@PA green & gold posted:I recently saw the documentary ‘The Timeline - The Ice Bowl’ done by Michael Meredith (Dandy Don’s son). He did a marvelous job interviewing players from both teams who played in the game. I came away with a new appreciation for players, fans, and all involved that day. Numerous players did not think they would play because of the weather. I believe it’s available via NFL films.
This documentary is being rebroadcast at 4:00pm EST today on the NFL Network.
@Slobknocker posted:Came across this on Youtube, the guy who did this should be thanked. The full game with the radio calls, pregame, and postgame stuff is included
Not available anymore.
John Madden would have loved that pic!
Former NFL player and head coach Dan Reeves, who during his 38 years in the league participated in nine Super Bowls, the third most for an individual, has passed away. Reeves was 77. pic.twitter.com/njjJ3Gqo7z
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) January 1, 2022
Reeves Ice Bowl TD pass here.
“He died of Covid that he caught during the Ice Bowl”
—-CDC
Ironic that he passes away on the 54th Anniversary of the Ice Bowl. He was a tough player and I always liked him as a coach.
NFL Network is running the 1998 NFC-CG at 7:30 PM ET in Reeves' honor.
Another great moment in Minnesota Football Team history.
The Ice Bowl was the first Packer game I ever watched. Been a Packer fan ever since!
Watched the Ice Bowl documentary earlier today. Amazing how that loss fucked up the Meredith family. 😂 The mom is still pissed.
@mrtundra posted:The Ice Bowl was the first Packer game I ever watched. Been a Packer fan ever since!
Right there with you.
It was a rarity to ever get a Packers game on TV (DallAss and KC markets) growing up, and although I may have caught one or two and just don't remember, the Ice Bowl was the first game I have pretty vivid memories of.
@Pakrz posted:Watched the Ice Bowl documentary earlier today. Amazing how that loss fucked up the Meredith family. 😂 The mom is still pissed.
Never heard so much whining in my life than from the DallAss player's commentaries.
"The game shouldn't have been played/should've been postponed"...
"We couldn't play our style of offense because of field conditions"...
Blah, blah, blah. Meredith. The Packers whooped your ass. Period.
And that is the importance of home field advantage. A good reminder before going into the Viking game.
Good old 3 channel days. Giants, Bills market here. Vaguely remember the Bills winning the AFL Championship in 65. NFL game in Dallas against the Pack is the first game I remember watching anything of. B & W TV, Vertical hold. Prell commercials with the pearl and Josi the plumber hocking Comet cleanser. Good times!
@Packiderm posted:Good old 3 channel days. Giants, Bills market here. Vaguely remember the Bills winning the AFL Championship in 65. NFL game in Dallas against the Pack is the first game I remember watching anything of. B & W TV, Vertical hold. Prell commercials with the pearl and Josi the plumber hocking Comet cleanser. Good times!
Our market was the Duluth-Superior market. Our three channels were KDAL, WDSM and WDIO. WDSM switched call letters to KBJR, at some point, probably due to new ownership??? Later, a public broadcasting channel, WDSE, was added. Julia Child became a part of our lives, when that happened. My Dad sold TVs and appliances, so we had a rotary antenna we could play with. During overcast days, we could pick up a TV station from Pocatello, Idaho, due to the atmospheric bounce of their broadcast signal. Cheap fun!
