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Six-man pro
Not going to post the full article, but this is a neat "behind the scenes" view of some of the stuff that needs to happen at that level of the sport ... the detail that goes into that type of stuff.
I remember hearing a story about someone who was invited to a Super Bowl game as a guest of the head groundskeeper. He shows up at the stadium that morning and finds the grounds crew (at an artificial turf field) on their hands and knees, with duct tape turned inside out on their hands, patting off lint, dirt and dust from the sidelines area. When the guy asked his groundskeeper buddy why they do that, he told him that he wanted folks to know the stadium was in pristine condition, even if the only person that noticed the dirt was somebody sitting in the first row.
http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/112699044.html
Seamstresses tackle uniform needs for Green Bay Packers
By Don Walker of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Dec. 31, 2010
Green Bay — Deep inside Lambeau Field, the Green Bay Packers are getting ready for the last game of the regular season against the Chicago Bears.
Marge Switzer and her sewing team have their game faces on, too.
In a small room filled with game-worn jerseys, cabinets full of name tags, and other game apparel, Switzer, Penny Elfe, Melanie Froling and Jo Anne Berth are huddled over sewing machines or handling sewing tools, mending the rips and tears in the polyester mesh jerseys, or seams that give way.
Switzer, 64, a grandmother of four who learned to sew from her mother, grandmother and 4-H as a girl, runs Marge's Pro Sewing out of her Green Bay home.
Switzer and her team are under contract with the Packers, and she estimates the work she does for the Packers takes up 80% of her workweek.
She wouldn't have it any other way. When she watches a game at home after spending the morning at the stadium making some last-minute fixes for the players and coaches, she watches with pride.
"It takes a lot of teamwork in the sewing room to put a team on the field," Switzer said.
Earl "Red" Batty, the team's equipment manager, says Switzer's group is a key part of the team's preparation for game day.
"They are a major, major aspect of the team," said Batty, known for his own meticulous organizational habits in the Packers' locker room. "There's a consistency with Marge and her staff."
(rest of the article at link above...)
I remember hearing a story about someone who was invited to a Super Bowl game as a guest of the head groundskeeper. He shows up at the stadium that morning and finds the grounds crew (at an artificial turf field) on their hands and knees, with duct tape turned inside out on their hands, patting off lint, dirt and dust from the sidelines area. When the guy asked his groundskeeper buddy why they do that, he told him that he wanted folks to know the stadium was in pristine condition, even if the only person that noticed the dirt was somebody sitting in the first row.
http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/112699044.html
Seamstresses tackle uniform needs for Green Bay Packers
By Don Walker of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Dec. 31, 2010
Green Bay — Deep inside Lambeau Field, the Green Bay Packers are getting ready for the last game of the regular season against the Chicago Bears.
Marge Switzer and her sewing team have their game faces on, too.
In a small room filled with game-worn jerseys, cabinets full of name tags, and other game apparel, Switzer, Penny Elfe, Melanie Froling and Jo Anne Berth are huddled over sewing machines or handling sewing tools, mending the rips and tears in the polyester mesh jerseys, or seams that give way.
Switzer, 64, a grandmother of four who learned to sew from her mother, grandmother and 4-H as a girl, runs Marge's Pro Sewing out of her Green Bay home.
Switzer and her team are under contract with the Packers, and she estimates the work she does for the Packers takes up 80% of her workweek.
She wouldn't have it any other way. When she watches a game at home after spending the morning at the stadium making some last-minute fixes for the players and coaches, she watches with pride.
"It takes a lot of teamwork in the sewing room to put a team on the field," Switzer said.
Earl "Red" Batty, the team's equipment manager, says Switzer's group is a key part of the team's preparation for game day.
"They are a major, major aspect of the team," said Batty, known for his own meticulous organizational habits in the Packers' locker room. "There's a consistency with Marge and her staff."
(rest of the article at link above...)
