This
is Mom's Cafe in the little town of Colfax in north western Wisconsin.
Colfax has a little more than a thousand people. I was back home for a
quick visit about a month ago and before starting
back on the log drive to Kansas we stopped for breakfast at Mom's. If
there is one thing I can say about Mom, she's a Packer fan.
Everywhere you turn at Mom's it's Packers everywhere. We have plaques on one wall devoted to Lambeau Field.
A signed autographed jersey of some guy who used to play for the Packers back in the 90's I think. The name escapes me currently.
And now we come to the tributes to current players. We have The Claymaker, Clay Mathews:
Followed by Charles Woodson.
Followed by Aaron Rodgers and Greg Jennings. Did you hear that 12/12/2012 is going to be Aaron Rodgers day in Wisconsin? I kid you not!
Even the dogs need to be Packer fans to get inside!
Next we have a little shelf of Packer nick nacks...autographed photos, Packer Beanie Babies, and if you look really close you'll find something a Packer card collector would be interested in.
Up in the middle of the top shelf an autographed card of the Packers all-time sack leader, Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila. I might just have to track one down for my own collection.
It seems like just about each little town in Wisconsin has one of these Packer shrines be it a small restaurant or a local bar.
You enter by going past a clipping board which has all the recent headlines from the major local paper the Eau Claire Leader-Telegram. I wrote for their sports section when I was in college with my best article being a hard hitting expose on a local runner who did pretty well in the Boston Marathon.
Everywhere you turn at Mom's it's Packers everywhere. We have plaques on one wall devoted to Lambeau Field.
And now we come to the tributes to current players. We have The Claymaker, Clay Mathews:
Followed by Charles Woodson.
Followed by Aaron Rodgers and Greg Jennings. Did you hear that 12/12/2012 is going to be Aaron Rodgers day in Wisconsin? I kid you not!
Even the dogs need to be Packer fans to get inside!
Next we have a little shelf of Packer nick nacks...autographed photos, Packer Beanie Babies, and if you look really close you'll find something a Packer card collector would be interested in.
Up in the middle of the top shelf an autographed card of the Packers all-time sack leader, Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila. I might just have to track one down for my own collection.
It seems like just about each little town in Wisconsin has one of these Packer shrines be it a small restaurant or a local bar.
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