A charity promotion, the game would attract more than twenty-eight thousand fans, a larger throng than the Packers had drawn for any regular-season game in Milwaukee since 1956. Sports fans in Wisconsin’s largest city cared much more about their winning baseball team, the Braves, than the stumbling Packers, but the football team, with its long history, still had support, and people wanted to see if this new coach from New York could make a difference.
