CEDAR FALLS, Iowa • I drove 345 miles to go to the grocery store.
Well, the grocery store, arguably the most-famous grocery store in St. Louis lore — which, of course, isn’t in St. Louis.
“This is Kurt Warner’s Hy-Vee,” said Josh Brown, manager of store operations. “And there’s kind of a mystique behind that.”
On Saturday in Ohio, the man who once stocked shelves at the Cedar Falls Hy-Vee — after being cut by the Green Bay Packers — was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
On Saturday in Iowa, the store stirred and carts clacked and checkers chuckled and golden kernels speckled the Kerns corn — “A Fresh Taste Of Iowa,” read the packaging on display by the doors.