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To: Alan Smithee who wrote (6680)	9/13/2001 7:27:03 PM
From: Augustus Gloop	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10077

As most of you already know I'm a Packer nut!! Well...I was just reading CBS sportsline and I thought this was kind of cool so I had to post it. Makes me proud to be a back @$$ country F#ck hick in Wisconsin. Before decision, Giants were heading to Green Bay Sept. 13, 2001 SportsLine.com wire reports GREEN BAY, Wis. -- Green Bay Packers president Bob Harlan said that before the NFL called off this weekend's games, plans were made for the New York Giants to play at Lambeau Field instead of the Meadowlands. Harlan said the league office called shortly after the terrorist attacks Tuesday and asked about moving the game. Giants Stadium stands just a few miles from the carnage at the World Trade Center. Packers president Bob Harlan was ready to switch with the Giants before the NFL made its decision. (AP) He said the Packers assured the NFL late Tuesday that resodding of the field would be done in time. Harlan said that tickets could be sold on a first-come, first-served basis at the stadium that has been sold out since 1960. "We truly spent the greatest part of our week planning on how we would bring a game in here," Harlan said Thursday. Harlan had set up "pregame ceremonies that were going to be very subdued," and was going to bring in a chorus group to sing "God Bless America." And he said the gate receipts were going to be sent to the American Red Cross to help the victims of the terrorist strikes. "We thought we could have sent a nice number to the Red Cross," Harlan said. "That's one of the things that you could have said about it, that this game is being played to help those poor people in New York City and Washington." Harlan said he's glad it didn't come to that. While the stadium could be made ready for an emergency game, nobody was ready for football to return so soon. "I don't think football this weekend, or any sports this weekend, is going to close the wound," Harlan said. "And this is a wound that isn't going to be closed, quite honestly." Harlan said he has in daily contact with baseball commissioner Bud Selig in Milwaukee. "When Bud and I first talked, he said, `You know, Bob. Our lives are never going to be what they were Monday,"' Harlan recounted. "I told him I totally agree. I don't know that just because we're going to play in a couple of weeks that that's going to help us. "This is something that all of us are going to live with for a long time ... It's just not a time for football." Center Mike Flanagan said the players didn't know of the plans to move the game to Lambeau Field. Some talked of apprehension about flying to Newark, N.J., where one of the hijacked planes had taken off, and of playing at a packed Meadowlands so close to the scene of the tragedy. "There was some concern about flying, about staying in a hotel," Flanagan said. "And all you keep seeing is these images of people falling out of buildings, planes exploding. And then we're going to go there." Harlan said he was working on the premise the game was going to be played in Green Bay or not at all.