God, Family, and the Green Bay Packers -Reply

[Emily Hartigan]

Michael (of Minnesota, not Utah) minces no words.  Can 20 years of
non-attendance be explained by the ticketed aristocracy argument
(adding the reality that Green Bay season tickets appear FREQUENTLY in
divorce negotiations, and represented one of the greatest ethical
temptations I saw in my 8 years of Wisconsin practice...)?  I prefer to
think of it as orthodoxy.  Being unable to get tickets at Lambeau field, the
only REAL locus of the Green Bay phenomenon, I declined to go to the
Milwaukee teaser games that the Packers would sometimes put on,
because it was so clearly a mere imitation, a false prophecy of the real
phenomenon.  So I was a plebeian.  Most of my friends in Madison had
never been to a Real Game.  I went to many Brewers' games, and many
Badger games (thus refuting your ice-and-snow argument) and realized
that I had not been invited into the select circle, but was proudly
pedestrian, among the Many in Cheeseland, cheering by proxy and, of
course, most of all, with the Packers in Spirit! (Dare I confess to prayer at
such times?  I do).  So as a non-native Badger, I did the best I could.  In
my more formal religion, I'm so used to being excluded from the inner
sanctum, it seemed natural.....
Sincerely (REALLY),
Emily Hartigan