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For those of you who have never been to Lambeau, this is a fence of a resident who lives directly across from Lambeau Field. The fence gets painted with a new slogan each year and has become a landmark in the city.
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Familiar Packers fixture ready for another coat, quote
Entries for famous fence near Lambeau due by Sept. 4
By Kelly McBride
kmcbride@greenbaypressgazette.com
During months of speculation about his status as a Green Bay Packer, the team's most famous face became, perhaps, its most famous fence-sitter.
So it would come as little surprise if Brett Favre's will-he, won't-he retirement speculation morphed into a witty phrase for another well-known fence  the Lombardi Avenue surface that draws hundreds of slogan suggestions every year.
Fence painter Christopher Handler is accepting entries for this year's installment of the Lambeau Field-facing fence that in May received an award from Green Bay's Historic Preservation Com-mission.
A green-and-gold fixture since 1984, the fence showcases a new Packers'-themed slogan every season. Handler and fence owner Fred Harrsch pore through hundreds of suggestions in choosing the winner.
"It has to work  the timing, the era of this year," said Handler, who plans to paint the fence in early September.
Handler and Harrsch received more than 500 submissions from all over the country and into Canada for last year's contest.
The fence has become a familiar fixture, and in addition to its historic preservation status has been the site of an engagement and has been featured in a book about the green and gold.
There's a lot to love about painting the Packer fence, Handler said. After the Sept. 4 slogan deadline, he plans to put the new phrase up either Sept. 5 or Sept. 6.
"The excitement, the hype," he said, "to have everybody see that. That's all I want, is to have everybody drive by (and) honk the horn."
E-mail your suggestion to Christopher Handler at handy-e-vita-man@sbcglobal.net or mail them to 3104 Essen Road, Green Bay, WI 54311. Maximum message length is 34 letters. Entries must be submitted by Sept. 4.
__________________________________________________ _________________
Familiar Packers fixture ready for another coat, quote
Entries for famous fence near Lambeau due by Sept. 4
By Kelly McBride
kmcbride@greenbaypressgazette.com
During months of speculation about his status as a Green Bay Packer, the team's most famous face became, perhaps, its most famous fence-sitter.
So it would come as little surprise if Brett Favre's will-he, won't-he retirement speculation morphed into a witty phrase for another well-known fence  the Lombardi Avenue surface that draws hundreds of slogan suggestions every year.
Fence painter Christopher Handler is accepting entries for this year's installment of the Lambeau Field-facing fence that in May received an award from Green Bay's Historic Preservation Com-mission.
A green-and-gold fixture since 1984, the fence showcases a new Packers'-themed slogan every season. Handler and fence owner Fred Harrsch pore through hundreds of suggestions in choosing the winner.
"It has to work  the timing, the era of this year," said Handler, who plans to paint the fence in early September.
Handler and Harrsch received more than 500 submissions from all over the country and into Canada for last year's contest.
The fence has become a familiar fixture, and in addition to its historic preservation status has been the site of an engagement and has been featured in a book about the green and gold.
There's a lot to love about painting the Packer fence, Handler said. After the Sept. 4 slogan deadline, he plans to put the new phrase up either Sept. 5 or Sept. 6.
"The excitement, the hype," he said, "to have everybody see that. That's all I want, is to have everybody drive by (and) honk the horn."
E-mail your suggestion to Christopher Handler at handy-e-vita-man@sbcglobal.net or mail them to 3104 Essen Road, Green Bay, WI 54311. Maximum message length is 34 letters. Entries must be submitted by Sept. 4.
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