GREEN BAY – Jim Biever always has considered himself more a fan of photography than football, which explains why his enthusiasm for a privilege many teenagers would die for was subdued at best.
Back in the early 1970s, Biever’s father Vernon, then the Packers’ team photographer, would ask his son to tag along with him to Lambeau Field. Having an assistant to carry the extra cameras and lenses up and down the sideline came in handy, except that Jim was often more interested in the darkroom work back home than the action on the field.
“It got to the point in the mid to late ’70s, with the trials and tribulations the team was going through, I’d say, ‘C’mon, Dad, do I have to go watch the Packers lose again?