I remember my first experience at a NFL game. It was Sunday, October 7, 1973. I had just turned 15 years old two days before the game. My present was a ticket to Sunday’s big game between the New York Giants and my beloved Green Bay Packers. The place was the Yale Bowl in New Haven, Connecticut, about 25 minutes away from our home.

I honestly had never seen that many people pack the Yale Bowl. The Giants played its late season home games that season at the Yale Bowl while work was being done to Yankee Stadium. And I still have in my possession that game ticket stub, a day that the Packers defeated the Giants 16 - 14. What wonderful memories I still have about that game 31 years later!