Nothing in the NFL compares to Green Bay. It's the most unusual place in professional sports, in a good way.
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The Packers are a way of life there, and there's no other NFL city (it's a stretch to call Green Bay a city, but whatever) in which this headline would happen: In about six hours, the Packers sold 64,000 tickets to watch Brett Favre's team Hall of Fame induction .