The Billionaire-Free Packers Stay True to the Game

Mr. Geline, a Packers fan long before there were cheeseheads, is a native of Shorewood, Wis.

The Kettle of Fish, a neighborhood bar in Greenwich Village, is a comfortable and welcoming watering hole, except on certain Sundays, Mondays, Thursdays, some Saturdays and for the first time ever, Thanksgiving Eve, when fans of a certain National Football League team transform the bar into sacred rooting turf. These are Green Bay Packers fans, who pay a cover charge of $25 to watch a football game they might view in the privacy of their homes at a lower cost and almost certainly in greater physical comfort.

The Packers are a true anomaly in modern American professional sports — a provincial........

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