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Surprise stop opens Tour (Tuesday morning)
The 14th annual ‘Green Bay Packers Tailgate Tour just left its first stop of the day, a surprise visit with approximately 750 middle school and high school student students at Clintonville High School.
Former defensive end Aaron Kampman led off the presentation to the students with a question that is central to many of the students at such a formative time in their lives.
“How do you figure out who you are?” he posed.
Kampman asked the seemingly innocuous question because too often, in his opinion, the pressure to perform in any pursuit takes away from simply taking the time to understand who we are.
“It’s fine to be who you are,” he explained. “Too often we’re defined by what we do. It doesn’t have to be that way.”
Before the players “distributed” footballs and T-shirts – now an event upon itself that is excitedly anticipated along all stops on the tour – they presented a check for $2,500 that will be used to purchase athletic equipment for the school.
Other alumni on the tour include Nick Barnett, Earl Dotson, Ryan Grant, Bernardo Harris and Scott Wells. Each touched on a different topic, with Grant and Dotson discussing being supportive of each other, Harris discussing respect, and Wells spoke about respecting the process.
“Achieving your goals is a day-to-day process,” he said. “One step at a time. Like how you eat an elephant…one bite at a time.”
The Tour is making its way to Marshfield, where tonight’s tailgate party will benefit the Personal Development Center, Marshfield. The 13 previous tours have raised just over $3 million, with this year’s excursion pushing that total higher and greatly helping five more worthwhile nonprofits in the process.