Well, at the last minute, my wife told me to go. (I didn't wait for her to say it a second time)
Got up to GB Friday, got my 4 autograph tickets (wasn't too happy with who i got) and was pretty dissapointed. But figured I'd see if i could land any signatures just hanging around. Went to the 4th floor, got some coaches sigs (Winston Moss, Dom Capers, Kevin Greene) and then saw Don "Majic" Majkowski going into the hall where the players were having a meeting. I quickly pulled out the picture i took of him in 1990, and as he was saying "I gotta go....can't sign any more" i showed it to him and asked if he could please sign it. He saw the old photo and said "Man....LOOK at that HAT I'm wearing!" and signed it for me!
I had an old 11 x 14 pic of Vince Lombardi, Bart Starr, Jim Ringo, Ron Kramer, Boyd Dowler, and Jim Taylor. I got Kramer's auto on it last Wednesday. I struck up a conversation with the security guy by the door, and asked him if Dowler was in the room. He told me "Yes". So i just camped at the doors and waited. I could see Dowler sitting at a table. And as soon as he got up, i got ready. As he came out i asked him to sign the pic for me, and he did!
I grabbed one of my Packer place mats (which are great for autographs) and got ready. Out stepped Dave Robinson, who i told you in another thread had spent an hour with me Last Wednesday, and i called out "Hey DAVE!!!" He turned and said "ALAN!" He called me over, and signed my mat, then stopped Marv Fleming and had him sign it for me. Greg Koch also signed it for me.
Saturday i decided to try the overflow lines for autographs. Got in Lynn Dickey's line and got a nice autograph from him. Then got Johnny Gray and Ted Thompson and Mark Murphy.
I had traded so i could get Carroll Dale's autograph. Which I'm glad I did. Don't know how often i will get to see any of the old Packer greats, and how much longer they will be around. Got Brett Goode and Brad Jones Saturday, too.
Went through the Packer Hall of Fame, which is always nice. Then through the Packer locker room. This year, they let us go out onto the sidelines of Lambeau Field. That's the first time i actually got to go out onto the sidelines. That was pretty neat.
All in all, it was a GREAT time! Wish ALL of you could have been there to expierience it!
According to what i heard, they only sold 2200 of the 3500 tickets. It wasn't as crowded as it was in years past. Which was nice for us, but i can't help but wonder if they will stop having Fan Fest if they don't sell more of the tickets.

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Glad you had a good time.. but I am not surprised that the attendance is down.

Personally speaking, I could not justify spending the money to attend the event this year, actually the past two. It is a fine event and all, but the squeeze on many is taking its toll.. and the Packers have to realize that.. I am sure they do.

And I highly doubt they will abandon the money maker... maybe scale it back some but doubt it will ever go by the wayside anytime soon.

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That's what I was thinking. Times are hard now, and that may have had a big affect on the attendance.

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Nice. An autograph from Ted Thompson. That's awesome.

I figured that you went to fan fest after pondering it and then not posting anything for a while. Looks like you made a good decision on going.

Yeah.....i still don't have a computer at home. Walked to the library again. But it's nice out, and i need the exercise! Gives me a REASON to exercise! Don't walk, can't talk! LOL!
Ted Thompson tried to make me pay him $5 for his autograph........i was able to talk him down to $2.50.

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Cheesey, you are a cruel, CRUEL man! Thanks, but no thanks.. 🙂

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Guess Ted Thompson is not that great of a negotiator after all. I would have thought he would have started at five and gotten you up to $7.50!

glad you had a great time. what happened to your computer? Does my old monitor still work?

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Hang on to that T.T. autograph. It is going to be worth a great deal after his second Superbowl win.

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Monitor works fine! Something blew in the tower. It won't even start now. My nephew built it for me a few years ago. It has been acting up lately, now it won't start. My wife is mad at me that we paid my nephew to build it, and it only worked properly for a short time, then started acting up.

I have a different tower from a friend, but it doesn't have any place on the back of it to screw in the wireless antenna that i need to access the internet from my landlord. All it has is 2 phone jacks in the back.
Does anyone know if there is some kind of component that can convert one of the jacks into a wireless hookup? I know NOTHING about computers.

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That just might be true!
There were alot of people that wanted Ron Wolf's autograph at Fan Fest. So it might just be something special in the end!

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