Wriglies games

But who? The Packers wore some variation of this uniform from He played for the Packers from , and his number is retired by that franchise. It can be narrowed down further by the color of the Wrigley scoreboard — green. I asked Mike Bojanowski to look at this photo and he concurs that we are looking at either or The bleachers had been painted drab green as early as That guy to the left in the gray suit and tan overcoat looks as though he were called up by Central Casting.

As is the case now, that was a big rivalry then and a big ticket seller. Tue, May 31, PM. Wed, Jun 1, PM. Thu, Jun 2, PM. Fri, Jun 3, PM. Sat, Jun 4, PM. Sun, Jun 5, PM. Mon, Jun 13, PM. Tue, Jun 14, PM. Wed, Jun 15, PM. Thu, Jun 16, PM. Fri, Jun 17, PM.

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A Bear official said every possible effort will be made to remove snow from all exposed seats and the east stands, but the fans are advised that galoshes are in order. The grounds crew reported an accumulation of 10 to 12 inches of snow in box seat sections. They lost that Saturday game to the Packers in front of 46, at Wrigley, and wound up the season That poor record allowed them higher draft picks the next year, when they selected Gale Sayers and Dick Butkus.

The photo is interesting not just for the snow removal, but a real clear image of exactly where the south goal posts were set up. In fact, a cement block that helped secure those goal posts was found by Roger Bossard when he supervised the reconstruction of the baseball field at Wrigley in :. Unbeknownst to everyone involved in the Wrigley project, cement blocks surrounding the bottom parts of the old goal posts from Bears games at Wrigley had been buried under the infield at Wrigley for nearly four decades.

After the Bears played their final game there on Dec. That would probably have been the cement block under the post at the right of the photo above.