Back to the Green Bay Packers Newsfeed

Tracing the roots of players riding bikes

It seems safe to say no team in professional sports has more longstanding, high-profile traditions that bond its players with its fans than the Green Bay Packers.

The Lambeau Leap dates to 1993 and is one of the newer ones.

When the Packers played in old City Stadium from 1925-56, players would smuggle kids into games at the back gate. After the Packers moved to what is now Lambeau Field, the pull-at-your-heartstrings tradition that replaced it was kids lending players their bikes to ride to the practice field during training camp.

But, not surprisingly, nobody seemed to know when and how it started.