Fans take their socially distanced seats before an NFL divisional playoff football game between the Los Angeles Rams and Green Bay Packers, Saturday, Jan. 16, 2021, in Green Bay, Wis. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)GREEN BAY, Wis. – An 85-year-old Green Bay Packers fan who has never missed a playoff game at Lambeau Field thought her streak was coming to an end this week until two charitable brothers heard her story.
Fritzie Neitzel, of Green Bay, went to her first Packers game with her father in October 1945, when she was 10.
As longtime season ticket holders, her family tried buying seats for the NFC championship game once they went on sale Wednesday.
That's when Neitzel heard about the Spirit of Wisconsin Booster Club led by Steve Ewing, of Milwaukee, and Neal Ewing, of Green Bay.
So Steve Ewing drove from Milwaukee to Green Bay on Saturday to hand off the phone with the tickets.