The BIZARRE DRAMA Between the 1987 Green Bay Packers & Milwaukee Brewers

On September 20, 1987, the Green Bay Packers begged the Milwaukee Brewers to play a game against the Denver Broncos in Milwaukee at Milwaukee County Stadium. The game was such a disaster and destroyed the field so much that it not only impacted the remainder of the Brewers' season, but completely changed how the Packers scheduled games in Milwaukee forever. This is the story behind the crazy drama between the 1987 Green Bay Packers and the 1987 Milwaukee Brewers

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Members of the 1987 Packers:
Don Majkowski
Willie Gillus
Max Zendejas
Al Del Greco
Alan Risher
Bill Renner
Randy Wright
Don Bracken
Chuck Washington
Jimmy Hargrove
Kelly Cook
Brent Fullwood
Mark Lee
Tiger Greene
Lee Weigel
Craig Jay
Tony Elliott
Ken Stills
Paul Ott Carruth
Tony Hunter
Don King
Dave Brown
John Sterling
Jessie Clark
Lou Rash
Kevin Willhite
Kenneth Davis
Mark Murphy
Norman Jefferson
Freddie Parker
Kenneth Johnson
David King
Chuck Compton
Larry Morris
Von Mansfield
Chris Mandeville
Lavale Thomas
Anthony Harrison
Jim Bob Morris
Lee Morris
Vince Rafferty
Johnny Holland
Clayton Weishuhn
Ron Monaco
Mike Weddington
Jim Melka
Aric Anderson
Scott Stephen
Ken Jordan
John Pointer
Burnell Dent
Rich Moran
Putt Choate
Mark Cannon
John Anderson
Rydell Malancon
Greg Jensen
John McGarry
Jerry Boyarsky
Jim Meyer
Perry Hartnett
Vince Villanucci
Steve Collier
Ron Hallstrom
Travis Simpson
Ed Konopasek
Bob Gruber
Bill Cherry
Keith Uecker
Jeff Drost
Tom Neville
Warren Bone
Todd Auer
Alan Veingrad
David Caldwell
Ken Ruettgers
Alphonso Carreker
Tommy Robison
Sylvester McGrew
Jim Hobbins
Mike Estep
Ross Browner
Frankie Neal
Keith Paskett
Derrick Harden
Patrick Scott
Wes Smith
Phil Epps
Ed West
Don Summers
Walter Stanley
Corn Redick
Mark Lewis
Joey Hackett
Kevin Fitzgerald
Ezra Johnson
Brian Noble
Cal Wallace
Robert Brown
Stan Mataele
Charles Martin
David Logan
Carl Sullivan
Tony Leiker
John Miller
Tim Harris
Brent Moore
John Dorsey
Forrest Gregg (head coach)

Members of the 1987 Brewers:
Jay Aldrich
Len Barker
Mike Birkbeck
Chris Bosio
Glenn Braggs
Greg Brock
Ray Burris
Juan Castillo
Mark Ciardi
Mark Clear
Cecil Cooper
Chuck Crim
Rob Deer
Mike Felder
Jim Gantner
Teddy Higuera
John Henry Johnson
Steve Kiefer
Mark Knudson
Brad Komminsk
Alex Madrid
Rich Manning
Paul Mirabella
Paul Molitor
Juan Nieves
Charlie O’Brien
Jim Paciorek
Dan Plesac
Ernie Riles
Billy Jo Robidoux
Bill Schroeder
Steve Stanicek
Dave Stapleton
BJ Surhoff
Dale Sveum
Bill Wegman
Robin Yount
Tom Trebelhorn (manager)

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[dbadefense]

Only real OGs remember County Stadium being the home of the climactic 1989 AL East tiebreaker game, where Rick Vaughn struck out Clu Haywood in the top-9th with the bases loaded; then Jake Taylor’s suicide bunt to win the division for the Indians in the bottom-9th.

[trevorhembrough]

I think the Packers were legally required to always play the Bears game at Lambeau in the regular season because they annually played a preseason game against the Bears at County Stadium well into the mid ‘70s (and again for a one-off in 1984). I believe it may have been a result of the fact that Milwaukee is closer in proximity to Chicago than it is to Green Bay and they may have been worried during the earlier years of the rivalry that Bear fans might’ve outnumbered Packer fans at a Packer home game.

[Bret_H]

Packers history always claims that they shared the Milwaukee stadium to prevent Milwaukee from starting their own NFL team, cutting into their fanbase.

[markbrian]

1) At least this was civil than the St. Louis drama and 2) I have a tremendous respect for NFL schedule makers who had to figure out when a team could play at the time when football and baseball teams shared the same stadium. It must have given them a major headache.

[Famijoly]

Nice work. Two baseball-football conflicts in 1987. I didn't realize that until I saw your videos on St. Louis and Milwaukee. One baseball-football stadium situation that won't make your videos because the football game involved was a college game, even though the stadium was also the home of an NFL team, came in 1980. The Astrodome was the home of the MLB Astros, the NFL Oilers, and the University of Houston Cougars. On October 11-12, 1980 (Saturday and Sunday), the Astrodome hosted games 4 and 5 of the National League Championship Series between the Astros and the Philadelphia Phillies. In between the two postseason baseball games -- yes, I said IN BETWEEN -- a Southwest Conference football game between Texas A&M and Houston was played at the same Astrodome. The college football game was scheduled to start at 7:30 p.m. Then on Monday, October 6, the Astros defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers, 7-1, in a tiebreaker game in Los Angeles to claim their first ever division championship and postseason berth. The two league championship series were best of five, and the sites of the games were determined solely by what year it was. With 1980 as an even-number year, the first two games would be played at the home of the East Division champions, in Philadelphia, on Tuesday and Wednesday, October 7 and 8. The Phillies won the first game, 3-1; the Astros won the second game, 7-4 in 10 innings. That meant there would be a game 4 in Houston on Saturday, October 11. On Friday, October 10, the Astros beat the Phillies, 1-0 in 11 innings, in game 3. Game 4 began at about 1 p.m. on Saturday. The Phillies won, 5-3 in 12 innings. It normally took eight hours for work crews to transform the Astrodome from baseball to football configuration and vice-versa. They rushed it up in about 6 hours and change. The Aggies and Cougars kicked off after 11 p.m. The Cougars won 17-7 to make both teams 2-3 on the season. Then the crews worked through the night to put the Astrodome back into baseball configuration by noon. Since it was a Sunday, ABC didn't want to battle CBS and NBC, who had the NFL games, for ratings, so game 5 had already been scheduled as a night game. And, had it not been mentioned (only once during the telecast), fans around the country would not have been wise to the fact that a college football game had been played in the same venue between games 4 and 5 of the 1980 NLCS. The Phillies won game 5, 8-7 in 10 innings. Fortunately, the Oilers were in Kansas City that day, and lost 21-20 to the Chiefs. It was not unusual during the Astrodome years for there to be a UH Cougars game on Saturday and an Oilers game on Sunday; they only needed to switch out the goal posts, and the differing hashmarks were both painted on the Astroturf. In fact, my first football experience at the Astrodome was such a college-pro turnaround in October 1969. We saw the Cougars upset Archie Manning and the Ole Miss Rebels 25-11 on Saturday night and the Oilers defeat the Denver Broncos 24-21 in an AFL game on Sunday afternoon.

[marcdaley]

Earth Wind and Fire reference for the win!

[naturekid]

As a long time packers and brewers fan, I had never heard of this incident. Another fine video.

[bobma]

In 1968 The first Vikings/Lions game was scheduled to be played at Tiger Stadium. It had to be moved to The Met in Bloomington, Minnesota because The Tigers were playing Game 4 of the World Series.

[thedominatior]

These recent videos makes me wonder if you might start a Baseball channel

[minsub]

How do you pop out a fifteen minute video everyday??? You're incredible, dude

[Rockhound]

What makes this funny is that there've been many NFL/MLB teams to share stadiums which were grass. Atlanta, San Diego, Shea & Yankee Stadiums in NY, Cleveland, Baltimore, Anaheim for a bit, and none of them were the shit show this was.

[johncerk]

I was 22 years old in 1987 and lived near Milwaukee.The Packers and Brewers were Horrible then.Like the Brewers winning their first 13 games of season, then losing 13 in a row.Packers were a even bigger JOKE.What a bad bad ERA.

[carljustinenuestro]

Despite that the Packers are not playing in Milwaukee anymore, I still considered them as a team from Milwaukee even though Green Bay was a little bit far from Milwaukee.

[penguinsfan]

Back in 1974, the Steelers played a road game in Kansas City. NBC did not broadcast the game, probably due to the 2PM Eastern start time. KDKA TV, then as now the CBS affiliate in Pittsburgh, televised the game in the Pittsburgh market.
In 1975, the Broncos played the Steelers in Pittsburgh and if memory serves, there was NO TV at all.
I'm certain CBS and NBC hated those 2PM Eastern starts.
As pointed out elsewhere, there was a Maryland blue law that forbid any Sunday game to begin before 2PM. I remember the Steelers playoff win in Baltimore in late 1976. After the game, some crackpot tried to land his plane on the field and crashed into the upper deck stands.

[LostLakeTribune]

You acknowledged the Expos were robbed in 1994! May you be blessed!

[stevengrvp]

we should calls this baseball/football fueds

[YB-Riddle]

love from wisconsin, my grandpa remembers this happening and he always needs to tell me about seeing them in milwaukee

[theknightswhosay]

These days they could have just played it on a different day, but everything was pretty much Sunday or Monday back then unless it was Thanksgiving.

[jonahfalcon]

I remember this game recapped on that week's Inside the NFL on HBO.

[robertwilloughby]

You now need to do a vid where a NFL team does a favo(u)r for a MLB team, or vice-versa, and it cements at least four or five years of good feelings between the two.