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:
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Go Pack Go!
I didn’t know you were from Wisconsin. I, too, am a cheesehead!
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.
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).
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.
Congratulations on scoring those tic’s. Sherm was way excited for you guys!
mostly I just think you guys are bastards
That’s right–you need to get your punk ass out here for a game this year.
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”>
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