I was the tallest at 6’3” and I’m pretty sure all of us push 200 pounds or better on the scale. First, we were a group of four fairly sizable guys. I was a little worried in the choice of vehicles for this excursion. The good news started when I loaded our tailgating supplies into the Highlander. Then drive to Fond du Lac, Wisconsin where we’d spend the night before our hour and thirty minute drive to Green Bay the next morning, enjoy a classic pre-game tailgate, and finally watch the two clubs that both purport to lay claim to the title of America’s team do battle on the not-so-frozen Tundra of Lambeau Field in October.Īside from a thundershower after the game on Saturday and two losses that disappointed the home fans, the weekend couldn’t have gone better. The plan was simple: take in the best of Madison Saturday afternoon then head over to the stadium for a 7:30 kickoff, watch the Badgers hopefully rough up the Buckeyes. Someone suggested we check the Badgers’ schedule and when we saw Buckeyes were coming to town for a Saturday night game that same weekend the plan was complete.įast forward five months and I was waiting with a full-complement of tailgating supplies for my three co-conspirators (Ron and Kirk were accompanies by Greg Thome, a communications manager from Toyota whose family is originally from Wisconsin) to arrive from Chicago in a 2017 Toyota Highlander XLE which would serve as our chariot for our personal pigskin marathon weekend. I got a quick yes, and the plot was in motion. It wasn’t long before we were Googling the team’s 2016/2017 season schedule and when we saw that Ron’s favorite team, the Dallas Cowboys, was coming to town in October, I shot a text to a friend with Packers season tickets asking if he’d be willing to part with those. Kirk Bell, a Wisconsin native who now lives in Chicago and writes for The Car Connection and the communications director from Toyota expressed their desire to do the same. That’s just what I, several other automotive journalists and manufacturer’s representatives were doing after a day of driving on the track, when Ron Doron a Californian who publishes The Driver’s Seat said he’d always wanted to see a game in Green Bay. Pick a name in American sports car racing – Gurney, Unser, Andretti, Foyt, Shelby, Newman, Revson, Donohue, Penske and more – they’ve all been seen enjoying a drink or two and telling tales of their on and off-track adventures at Siebkens. Siebkens has been host to racers and fans for generations. Filled with racing memorabilia from the 1950s on, it’s located just five miles from Road America, America’s National Park of Speed. If you’re not familiar with Siebkens it’s one of the great motorsports bars in the country. And not just any bar, but the legendary Siebkens Tavern in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin. It started – like seemingly all the great adventures in my life – at a bar after the consumption of a few adult beverages. So how did I end up at Camp Randall Stadium in Madison on a Saturday night watching the 8th ranked Wisconsin Badgers take on the 2nd Ranked Buckeyes from Ohio State, then in Lambeau Field on Sunday afternoon taking in the 3-1 Packers versus the 4-1 Cowboys? Is there such a thing as too much football? Thanks to Toyota, after spending a weekend at two iconic stadiums witnessing two great rivalries, I can unequivocally say the answer to that question is “no.”
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