Saturday, February 5, 2011

Origin Of The Cheesehead


I feel that it is important for you to know these things!

Green Bay’s “Cheesehead” nickname was originally a pejorative lobbed from folks in nearby Chicago. Wearing the nom de dairy on supporters’ heads began in 1987, when Milwaukee fan (...)
 Ralph Bruno created the original out of his mother’s sofa, which he was reupholstering. He wore it to a Brewers baseball game, and the cheddar chapeau has been worn by Packers fans ever since. “We’ve been running the machines 20 hours a day to keep up with the demand,” says Denise Kaminski, manager of Foamation, the company that holds the Cheesehead hat patent.