I was born and raised less than a mile from Lambeau Field. I went to my first Packer game when I was three but was left at home with the baby sitter while my brother and sister went to the famed Ice Bowl in 1967. I played fullback and linebacker at Vince Lombardi Middle School. My friends and I used to walk into Lambeau Field to run the steps.

After high school, which was located on Packerland Drive, I left Green Bay. Thirteen years later I returned to photograph the relationship between the community of Green Bay and the Green Bay Packers football team for Dick Schaap's book: Green Bay Replay, which chronicles the Packers 1996-97 Super Bowl winning season.

The Packers were founded in 1919, have won a league-leading 12 world championships and are the only civically-owned, non-profit franchise in major professional sports. It is the most storied franchise in professional football and Green Bay is the smallest town in the country to have its own NFL team. Currently, there are 42-some-odd-thousand names on the waiting list for season tickets. At the current rate it will be sometime in the 3rd millennium before these people's ancestors get tickets. In Green Bay, the fire hydrants are painted Green and Gold, Lombardi Avenue runs past Lambeau Field and intersects Holmgren Way and Packerland Drive intersects Glory Road. In 1997, more people visited the Green Bay Packer Hall of Fame than the NFL Hall of Fame in Canton.