Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
As a thick fog rolled in and settled Christmas morning, my husband showed me a goosebump-raising photo that was a gift from our friend Mark Hudson. Also shrouded in fog, the vintage shot featured my dad, Ron Kostelnik and his friends and teammates Henry Jordan and Lionel Aldridge in a 1965 game I have since [...]
My friend Amy recently requested that her Facebook friends post their favorite football pictures. I haven't respond yet because I'm still sorting through all those glorious images, both among my files and in my mind. I love football, and I wish I would have played it in high school. I love it as a recreational [...]
We toasted the Glory Years this weekend, a nearly decade long run during which Green Bay won two Super Bowls and three NFL titles. That this celebratory time in Green Bay occurred during the 1960's, a turbulent time in America, made the run infinitely more interesting. Led by a charismatic coach, the Packers made history [...]
When he described a true friend as someone who "advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably," William Penn might have been describing a fellow William, former Packer great Willie Davis. Davis, a Hall of Fame football player and a defensive lineman for the Green Bay Packers [...]