Section 102 | Row 55 | Seat 7

Posted by in Personal on Dec 13th, 2005 | 10 comments

I had one of those “landmark” life moments on Sunday evening when I had the opportunity to attend my first Green Bay Packers game on the hallowed “frozen tundra” of Lambeau Field. Raised in Wisconsin, I grew up steeped in the lore of Titletown, so named for the 12 NFL World Championships the Packers have won over the years, and spent many a Sunday throwing down beer and brats while watching the Packers. Lambeau Field has been sold out since 1960 and there’s currently a 30 year waiting list for season tickets, so it was a dream come true, when my older brother, Ford, called me up out of the blue with the news of tickets to Sunday’s game against the Detroit Lions.

I took some short video clips on my Palm Treo 650–actually amazing video for a for a phone. I’m using the kimili WordPress plugin to embed the Flash video’s into my blog post, but for some reason, the component controls don’t show up ( they show up fine when tested in the standalone player, or in their own html wrappers)…if anyone can point me in the right direction, I’d be happy to remedy the situation. I ended up using Camtasia Studio Playback controls so that there was some mechanism for controlling the video. However, this too required a bit of jiggering, as I had to provide absolute paths for the xml configuration file and the location of the swf shell and flv files.

The legendary Brett Favre marches the pack toward the endzone:

Brooks:

Ford:



10 Responses to “ “Section 102 | Row 55 | Seat 7”

  1. Packer Backer says:
    December 14, 2005 at 7:23 pm

    Go Pack Go!

  2. Aaron says:
    December 31, 2005 at 2:14 pm

    I didn’t know you were from Wisconsin. I, too, am a cheesehead!

  3. Brooks says:
    January 2, 2006 at 11:39 pm

    Yep, I grew up in DeForest ( just north of madtown ). I’m your basic Wisconsin ‘neck when it comes to the Badgers and the Packers.
    …just hope Bret decides to come back for one more year.

  4. bj says:
    January 4, 2006 at 1:44 pm

    The green runs deep – I lived in the Madison area from 1984 – 2001. Go Pack! They are so much more fun to root for than the Lions (sorry, Lions fans).

  5. Sylvia says:
    February 9, 2006 at 9:49 am

    You rascal(s)! How come big sister wasn’t invited to the Big Show? Great pics of u boyz. Feel free to include me in on your next brat-burning party.

  6. Victoria Andrus says:
    March 8, 2006 at 1:09 pm

    Congratulations on scoring those tic’s. Sherm was way excited for you guys!

  7. sherm says:
    May 27, 2006 at 3:06 am

    mostly I just think you guys are bastards

  8. Brooks says:
    May 27, 2006 at 3:15 am

    That’s right–you need to get your punk ass out here for a game this year.

  9. Mike says:
    February 10, 2007 at 12:25 pm

    Hello Brooks,

    I hate to bother you but I just checked out your video
    on kml_flashembed and find this pluggin very cool but
    I can’t seem to get it work on my wordpress.

    I’m setting up a website using wordpress and my wesite
    address where my test video is at http://handybizman.com/blog/videos/test-video/.html

    I want the controllers for visitor to use just like
    your website but they won’t show up.

    Here is the code I use:

    [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.handybizman.com/latestvideo/paypal.swf” height=”467″width=”550″fversion=”8″ fvars=”csConfigFile=paypal_config.xml=http://www.handybizman.com/latestvideo/paypal_config.xml; csColor=F3F4EC”>

  10. Brett Favre Gear says:
    April 23, 2008 at 10:19 pm

    That’s not bad video for a phone. My first game at Lambeau was also a Lions game, but mine was in 1999. What an awesome experience. It was colder than the devil, though. MERCY!! I’m so glad I got to go see a game in person while Brett was still playing. I know we have to move on, but I’m going to miss him terribly!

    Mike Smith

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