The last live Packers play my dad ever saw was the Randall Cobb fourth-and-8 catch

How has a Packers game impacted a noteworthy event in your life? (Dar from Mansfield, TX)

My dad went blind in 2016. A short time earlier, my wife and I had tickets to a Packers-Bears tilt. I had gotten tickets for Christmas because she told me that she had never seen the team live in-person. The morning of the game, we catch a horrible stomach bug. We call my dad and see if he wants the tickets. He takes them despite the fact that it’s short notice. This was December 2013. The last live Packers play my dad ever saw was the Randall Cobb fourth-and-8 catch. (Editor’s note: That may be the greatest Outsider Inbox answer ever, Brian. Thank you for sharing that.)

“We want the ball and we’re gonna score!” I had just moved to Chicago and decided to go to this bar I had heard about, Will’s Northwoods Inn, to watch the game. I started talking to this cute girl during the game. Twenty years later that cute girl is my wife. If Al Harris hadn’t picked Matt Hasselbeck, neither my wife nor I would have been at Will’s that night to drown our sorrows in each other’s company after fourth-and-26.

Tom from Cambridge (near Weston), MA

Not me, but my older brother. He was born in mid-December 1962. My parents quickly set the date for his baptism on Dec. 30. After the Packers won their conference, my parents huddled up with the parish priest and all three decided the baptism would be at halftime.

After my sister’s tragic death in 2019, a group of the guys decided to take “a trip of a lifetime” and go to a game at Lambeau. This fall will be our fourth “guys” trip. Memories make us rich.

My wife and I got married on Black Friday in 2015. Our wedding rehearsal was scheduled for Thanksgiving night, the Packers also played that night. I am the only Packers fan of the group, but the rehearsal broke up halfway through so people could go home to watch the game. Worse the Packers lost that game. Fortunately, the wedding went off fine!

While living in Florida in 2010, I was diagnosed stage-4 melanoma. The cancer produced a malignant growth on my spine which caused me to be in considerable pain. Corrective surgery was scheduled for the week prior to Super Bowl XLV. I made my surgeon promise that I would be discharged before Sunday. I was discharged on Saturday, pain-free. On Sunday, I was able to enjoy another Packers victory.

Wayne from Lake Hallie, WI

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