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expensive meals for his loved ones. A year passed. Not only was Brandrick not dead, he felt great. He returned to RCH and was told that it wasn’t cancer after all…but pancreatitis, which had cured itself. Destitute, he sued RCH for negligence, but because he couldn’t afford a lawyer, he was hoping for a settlement.
The Verdict: The case never made it to court. And it’s unclear whether Brandrick received any money from RCH.
The Plaintiff: Marion V., a high-school teacher in Germany
The Defendant: “Kim,” one of her 16-year-old students
The Lawsuit: In early 2010, Mrs. V. walked into her classroom and saw that one of the students had drawn a bunny rabbit on the chalkboard. Deathly afraid of rabbits, Mrs. V. ran out of the room in terror. She was so upset that she couldn’t work for the remainder of the school year. Claiming “infringement of general personal rights,” Mrs. V. filed a civil complaint against Kim. Why Kim? Because she was the only one who knew of Mrs. V.’s phobia (she had attended another school where Mrs. V. taught, and a similar bunny-on-the-chalkboard incident occurred there in 2008).
The Verdict: Case dismissed.
The mimic octopus can change the shape and color of its body to look like a lionfish, sea snake, or flounder.
THE PACKERS ARE
IN HIS BLOOD
Green Bay Packers fans are known for being among the most loyal and dedicated in the NFL. How dedicated? Since 1960, every game at Lambeau Field has sold out, and the waiting list for season tickets is estimated to be more than 100 years long. Here’s the story of one of the most dedicated “Cheeseheads” of them all .
F AN FOR LIFE
Jim Becker, who turned 80 in 2010, has been going to Green Bay Packers games since his father took him to his first game in 1941, when he was 11. He was a Packers fan throughout his childhood, his teenage years, and into adulthood. He followed the team from afar while serving in the Korean War. Then, as soon as his military service ended, he was back at Lambeau Field. And that’s when real life began to intrude upon his love for his team.
Becker married his sweetheart, Patricia, in 1952; their first child was born the following year. Another child soon followed, then another, then another. If you’ve ever tried to hustle up money for football tickets while raising just a couple of kids, you can imagine how difficult it must have been for Becker; he and his wife would eventually have 11 children. But Becker put his kids first: He refused to dip into the family’s budget to buy his Packers tickets.
There must have been days when Becker despaired of ever seeing a game in person again, but not after he learned that blood banks paid cash to people who donated blood. Suddenly he had a source of funds: “They were paying $15 a pint, more than a game ticket,” he told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel . “I’d go four or five times a year and use the money to buy the tickets.”
BLOOD SPORT
For Becker, the blood bank really was a bank—whenever he needed money for football tickets, he gave more blood. He bought his tickets this way for the next 20 years: He was at Lambeau Field during the so-called “wilderness years” of the mid- to late 1950s, including the 1958 season, when the Packers went 1–10–1, their worst season ever. He was there for the glory years of 1959–1967, when Vince Lombardi coached the team to five championships in seven years, including victories in the first two Super Bowls. He was at the famous “Ice Bowl” NFL Championship Game of 1967, when the Packers beat the Dallas Cowboys 21–17 in –13°F weather (and a wind chill of –48°F), the coldest air temperature ever recorded at an NFL game. And he was there for the disappointing post-Lombardi years, when the Packers averaged only one winning season every four or five years. “A fan is somebody that follows a team win or lose,” he says.
IRON MAN
Buying football tickets with blood money was certainly a sign of dedication,
The Verdict: The case never made it to court. And it’s unclear whether Brandrick received any money from RCH.
The Plaintiff: Marion V., a high-school teacher in Germany
The Defendant: “Kim,” one of her 16-year-old students
The Lawsuit: In early 2010, Mrs. V. walked into her classroom and saw that one of the students had drawn a bunny rabbit on the chalkboard. Deathly afraid of rabbits, Mrs. V. ran out of the room in terror. She was so upset that she couldn’t work for the remainder of the school year. Claiming “infringement of general personal rights,” Mrs. V. filed a civil complaint against Kim. Why Kim? Because she was the only one who knew of Mrs. V.’s phobia (she had attended another school where Mrs. V. taught, and a similar bunny-on-the-chalkboard incident occurred there in 2008).
The Verdict: Case dismissed.
The mimic octopus can change the shape and color of its body to look like a lionfish, sea snake, or flounder.
THE PACKERS ARE
IN HIS BLOOD
Green Bay Packers fans are known for being among the most loyal and dedicated in the NFL. How dedicated? Since 1960, every game at Lambeau Field has sold out, and the waiting list for season tickets is estimated to be more than 100 years long. Here’s the story of one of the most dedicated “Cheeseheads” of them all .
F AN FOR LIFE
Jim Becker, who turned 80 in 2010, has been going to Green Bay Packers games since his father took him to his first game in 1941, when he was 11. He was a Packers fan throughout his childhood, his teenage years, and into adulthood. He followed the team from afar while serving in the Korean War. Then, as soon as his military service ended, he was back at Lambeau Field. And that’s when real life began to intrude upon his love for his team.
Becker married his sweetheart, Patricia, in 1952; their first child was born the following year. Another child soon followed, then another, then another. If you’ve ever tried to hustle up money for football tickets while raising just a couple of kids, you can imagine how difficult it must have been for Becker; he and his wife would eventually have 11 children. But Becker put his kids first: He refused to dip into the family’s budget to buy his Packers tickets.
There must have been days when Becker despaired of ever seeing a game in person again, but not after he learned that blood banks paid cash to people who donated blood. Suddenly he had a source of funds: “They were paying $15 a pint, more than a game ticket,” he told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel . “I’d go four or five times a year and use the money to buy the tickets.”
BLOOD SPORT
For Becker, the blood bank really was a bank—whenever he needed money for football tickets, he gave more blood. He bought his tickets this way for the next 20 years: He was at Lambeau Field during the so-called “wilderness years” of the mid- to late 1950s, including the 1958 season, when the Packers went 1–10–1, their worst season ever. He was there for the glory years of 1959–1967, when Vince Lombardi coached the team to five championships in seven years, including victories in the first two Super Bowls. He was at the famous “Ice Bowl” NFL Championship Game of 1967, when the Packers beat the Dallas Cowboys 21–17 in –13°F weather (and a wind chill of –48°F), the coldest air temperature ever recorded at an NFL game. And he was there for the disappointing post-Lombardi years, when the Packers averaged only one winning season every four or five years. “A fan is somebody that follows a team win or lose,” he says.
IRON MAN
Buying football tickets with blood money was certainly a sign of dedication,
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