No less a source than Matt Eberflus himself explained why he was sitting Wednesday night at the Marquette-UConn game with Packers coach Matt LaFleur.
In a comment put on Twitter by Tom Pelissero of NFL Network, Eberflus was merely on campus with his daughter and given courtside seats where the Green Bay Packers boss was sitting. Eberflus got the tickets through the school.
“Even NFL coaches have #dadlife. From Matt Eberflus: ‘My youngest daughter is a senior and we are looking at colleges to attend and one of her finalists is Marquette. We were visiting the campus today and wanted to attend the home finale versus UConn. The basketball program was gracious to get us court side seats. Thank you to Shaka… best of luck to Marquette in NCAA Tournament
Seeing their coach sitting with the coach of the team’s biggest rival and nemesis in recent years was enough to set a Bears fan base already on edge right over it.
Actually, in ancient Bears and Packers lore, George Halas and Vince Lombardi and before that Halas and Curly Lambeau had been friendly. Halas in the 1950s came and spoke at a rally in Green Bay designed to get voters to approve public stadium funding. If the Packers hadn’t obtained such funding, they might have moved from Green Bay to Milwaukee. Of course, Halas’ motivation might have been for his own team’s good because putting the Packers in Milwaukee might have cut into his own fan base a bit. There are plenty of Bears fans in the Milwaukee and stateline area. The Packers had been playing at City Stadium, a field meant for high school football, until that referendum passed for Lambeau Field.
