I just (and I mean like 30 minutes ago) found out while doing some genealogy research that I have a 3rd cousin once removed that is a member of the Packers Hall of Fame.
First clue:
He was an all american for two straight years for the University of Minnesota.
Originally Posted by Rastak
Gilbert Brown!
"The Devine era is actually worse than you remember if you go back and look at it."
KYPack
Gale Gillingham
Nope, good player Gale was though.
This guy was also a Navy lieutenant on a PT boat in WWII.
Now that you have confirmed blood relative assume you will join Packers fraternity of fans. Welcome home!
No question whatsoever he's a blood relative....however, for some reason I bleed purple and always will.
Hmmm. He haunts Packerrats. He finds out he's related to a Packer hall of famer.
Come to the dark side, Ras. We await.
"The Devine era is actually worse than you remember if you go back and look at it."
KYPack
Wild Dick Wildung.
"The Devine era is actually worse than you remember if you go back and look at it."
KYPack
That's the guy.
3rd cousin.
I always knew you were some sort of Dick.
All hail the Ruler of the Meadow!
It's pretty cool, Ras.
"The Devine era is actually worse than you remember if you go back and look at it."
KYPack
Blew me away for sure.
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg...GRid=30290484&
Cool, but I think I will wait until I get home to check the guy out. Googling 'Wild Dick' is probably not the best idea at work.
Fire Murphy, Gute, MLF, Barry, Senavich, etc!
HOFer
Nice! Can he get you good seats at Lambeau?
"There's a lot of interest in the draft. It's great. But quite frankly, most of the people that are commenting on it don't know anything about what they are talking about."--Ted Thompson
Nice! Can he get you good seats at Lambeau?
Sadly, probably not. I could make alot of money.
Here's an interesting Cliff Christl article from packers.com on Dick Wildung: http://www.packers.com/news-and-even...b-cbee019d9340
"Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts." -Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Cool, thanks Carolina.
This was awesome:
"I got out of my seat and was walking down the track to get up to the radio booth. (Darn), if (Stansauk) doesn’t come out of the stands and yell, ‘Hi, Dick.’ He said, ‘Dick, don’t ever tell anybody Hard Boiled Haggerty was a football player.’ I said, ‘Don, I’ll never tell anybody you were a football player.’ I didn’t think he was.”
Last edited by Rastak; 03-11-2016 at 03:39 PM.
Dude had a pretty full life, and lived to be 85! Nice.
It says he played tackle in college, then TE in the pros. That move usually goes the other way in the modern NFL.
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