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GREEN BAY, Wis. -- Fourteen years ago, Wendy Smetana bought a green-and-gold casket decorated with the logo of the Green Bay Packers. You could call her a die-hard fan.
"Ain't that cool?'' Smetana said, showing a picture of herself next to the open casket with a football inside.
Healthy and active at age 66, Smetana is in no rush to occupy her eternal box seat, preferring her season ticket on a metal bleacher bench above the 32-yard line at Lambeau Field.
But she has a specific exit strategy. Smetana wants her funeral reception to be a tailgate party, preferably at Lambeau. "Hamburgers, hot dogs, bratwurst and pop,'' she said. "No alcohol.''
Smetana, a retired bus driver, is one of about 100,000 people in a community where football stimulates the collective heartbeat, brainwaves and civic soul.
Source: http://nfl.fanhouse.com/2011/01/04/in-green-bay-packers-are-to-die-for/
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