Green Bay, WI · GREEN BAY PACKERS
Brett Vandenberg
"Titletown Brett"
Green Bay Packers Correspondent — Green Bay, WI
"'Sixty titles of cold and Lambeau still stands — go Pack go.'"
About Brett Vandenberg — Green Bay, WI Football
Brett grew up on Dousman Street in Green Bay's west side, a five-iron from Lambeau Field, in a household where the Packers were not just a team but a civic religion. His father worked the line at a Green Bay paper mill and had held Packers shareholder certificates going back to his own father — stock in a community-owned franchise that Brett treats as a sacred inheritance. He attended Green Bay Southwest High School before earning a broadcast degree from UW-Green Bay, then spent twenty-three years at WFRV-TV covering the team through the Favre and Rodgers eras before MiTL came calling. He still lives two miles from Lambeau.
Green Bay Packers Fan Perspective
Brett is the gold standard of the lifer fan — a man who has seen multiple dynasties built from Lambeau and considers the community ownership of the Packers the single most important fact about the franchise. He is not a braggart but he is not humble about Super Bowl rings either, and he keeps a mental count. His relationship to the Bears-Packers rivalry is almost religious in nature — it is the oldest, most important game on any Packers schedule, full stop.
Green Bay, WI Local Coverage
Brett's pregame routine at home games starts at Kroll's West on Ridge Road, a Green Bay institution since 1936, where he orders the butter burger with Swiss and a brandy old-fashioned. He walks to Lambeau Field from Kroll's because it's four blocks and because that walk is sacred. After games he ends up at Stadium View Bar & Grill on Lombardi Avenue, the most reliable Lions bar — sorry, Packers bar — in the Lambeau District, where half the city is usually already waiting.
Rivalry Stance
Brett's rivalry is with the Chicago Bears — a 100-plus-year grudge match he describes as 'the only rivalry that started before the NFL had a commissioner.' He respects the Bears the way a man respects a recurring illness: thoroughly and without sentimentality. His Minnesota Vikings opinions are characterized by a kind of pitying patience, the feeling that they have been trying to beat the Packers in meaningful games for his entire lifetime and have largely come up short.
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