Trivia test: Who kicked the longest FG at Lambeau Field 

Ron from Dudley, MA

Are there records on the longest FGs at Lambeau Field? I would be most interested to see if Efren Herrera set the record and then who would have broken it. Makes for an interesting fun fact.

Agreed. Thanks for the trivia question.

Yes, Efren Herrera held the record at one time for the longest field goal in a regular-season game at Lambeau Field with a 54-yarder. His record was broken, but Herrera is still the answer to this trivia question: What kicker held the record for longest field goal at Lambeau for the longest period of time?

Herrera set the record in 1981 while kicking for Seattle and it stood for almost 22 years. In fact, he'd also be the answer to another trivia question: Who was the first soccer-style kicker to hold the record for longest field goal at Lambeau.

Herrera kicked in the NFL for Dallas from 1974, '76-77; the Seahawks from '78-81; and Buffalo in 1982.

Currently, David Akers holds the record with a 63-yarder. He accomplished the feat in 2012 when he was kicking for San Francisco. Still today, it's not only the record but also the only successful 60-plus-yard field goal in Lambeau history.

Now, a confession on my part.

I didn't know the answer to your question, so I got my information from Eric Goska, keeper of Packers numerical records going back to 1921. Goska provided me with a list of the 10 longest field goals in Lambeau history – actually the 14 longest taking into account the five-way tie for ninth place – and also the evolution of the record dating to the dedication game in 1957 of what was then Green Bay City Stadium.

Tom from Hot Springs, AR

I'm a 92-year-old native of Green Bay. My father's sister, Mae Heney, was the wife of Gerald Clifford. Your comment in the Mark Murphy legacy that Clifford was not one of the so-called "Hungry Five" surprised me. Why does not being a member of the Packers' board of directors until 1929 prevent that? Who was the fifth? As I remember, Clifford's Packer HOF induction included that reference.

Tom, I did not write that Clifford wasn't a member of the "Hungry Five." He was and played a critical role in Packers history in the 1930s, '40s and as late as 1950. The point I was making was that other authors and writers have gotten the history of the "Hungry Five" wrong when they included Clifford among those who helped save the franchise in 1923 by creating the Green Bay Football Corporation.

Clifford was not actively involved with the Packers at that time. He wasn't elected to the board of directors until 1929 and to the executive committee a year later. He wasn't even a stockholder in the Green Bay Football Corporation until he became an officer and then only for a short time before it went into receivership.

Clifford's legacy is that he played a lead role in 1935 in creating The Green Bay Packers, Inc., the second public corporation that saved the franchise and the one that is still operative today.

The term "Hungry Five" – in reference to the Packers – wasn't coined until 1946. That year, in his book "The Green Bay Packers," Chicago Tribune sportswriter Arch Ward used the term in reference to Andrew Turnbull, Lee Joannes, Dr. W.W. Kelly, Clifford and Curly Lambeau, and, in turn, credited all five for nurturing the Packers through their many trials and tribulations dating to 1923.

Like so many writers, what Ward was guilty of was muddling the history, not necessarily crediting the wrong people.

Turnbull, Joannes, Kelly and Lambeau were among the key figures that kept the Packers alive from 1921 when they were admitted to what is now the NFL through the 1920s. Clifford was not.

In 1939, Oliver Kuechle of The Milwaukee Journal named local attorney John Kittell, Beaumont Hotel proprietor A.C. Witteborg and pharmacist Ed Schweger as being the other key figures in creating the Green Bay Football Corporation.

A year later, Russ Davis, son of a Green Bay attorney who also was an original shareholder in 1923, also wrote in an article he penned for the Saturday Evening Post that Kittell, Witteborg and Schweger were the other founding fathers among local leaders of the Packers' original public corporation in addition to Turnbull, Joannes and Kelly.

Ward mentioned Witteborg in his book but got his initials wrong and misspelled his last name. Ward identified him as E.C. Witteberg.

As an FYI to you, I explained all of what I've written here to Gerald Clifford's daughter, also an attorney as you know, when she interviewed me for her paper on her father.

I spelled out how Clifford deserved to be credited for writing The Green Bay Packers, Inc., Articles of Corporation, but that those weren't the original articles when the Packers became a community property. The 1923 articles were signed by Kittell, the only lawyer among the original officers. But she had been convinced by then that Ward and other writers had gotten it right.

As a result, she got it wrong, too.

But I would never minimize what Clifford – or your uncle through marriage if I have it right – contributed to Packers history. One could even argue that if not for him standing up to Lambeau in late 1949, early 1950, when he wanted to privatize the Packers with himself and a few of his cronies as controlling owners, the franchise wouldn't be in Green Bay today.

Would private owners have gotten the public to pay for what is now Lambeau Field? Would Lambeau still have been coach in the 1960s rather than Vince Lombardi? Would any of their heirs had the money or been qualified to own an NFL franchise following their deaths?

Clifford got a late start but is a deserving member of the "Hungry Five." My issue is with Ward and those who have repeated his false history on that topic. And, yes, the Packers Hall of Fame and others who wrote about Clifford's induction in 1991 got it wrong, as well.

Curtis from Atlanta, GA

I'm searching for any information on the preseason Bishop's Charities Game held on Friday, Aug. 26, 1994, against the New England Patriots. It's the first Packers game I attended. And even though it was a preseason game, it still counts in my heart as the first time I was at Lambeau and got to see Brett Favre, Reggie White, LeRoy Butler and others. I've been scanning the internet and cannot seem to find a game writeup, scoring summary, stat sheet, links, or other information to confirm and validate the mystique I feel when thinking about that awesome experience of walking through the corridor and seeing the field for the first time. I have the worn old ticket stub featuring Brian Noble. As I grow older, I'm trying to conjure up those deeply held emotions that I hope to stir up with my kids someday.

It was the Packers' last of four preseason games, and they won 24-20 as you maybe remember.

As for other details, the starters played for a half or more, as did New England's. So, you got to see Favre for all but one series of the first half, although it was his worst game that preseason. His stat line was 6 of 18 for 101 yards, including an interception that was returned 19 yards for a touchdown on the Packers' first offensive series. That said, Favre did rebound and led a 10-play, 61-yard drive that Edgar Bennett capped with a 2-yard touchdown run on the Packers' second possession. It also was Favre's first and only interception of the preseason.

Drew Bledsoe was the Patriots' quarterback and he struggled, too. He went the distance and was 15 of 36 for 185 yards with four interceptions. Actually, the quarterback with the best numbers was Packers backup Mark Brunell, who completed 7 of 9 passes for 90 yards.

The Packers' other touchdowns came on a 10-yard fumble recovery by safety Mike Prior and on a 7-yard pass from Brunell to running back Reggie Cobb. After playing poorly in his first three preseason games, Cobb showed flashes of why the Packers had signed him as a free agent with six carries for 30 yards and three receptions for 49 yards.

A few other stats: Sterling Sharpe played the first half and caught two passes for 27 yards, including a long of 24; LeRoy Butler was the second-leading tackler with five as the No. 1 defense played through the first series of the second half; Reggie White had one unassisted tackle; Terrell Buckley and Doug Evans had two of the Packers' four interceptions; and Craig Hentrich made good on being anointed the team's punter that week by averaging 44.1 yards on eight punts.

Jeff from Appleton, WI

Did Nick Miketinac play for the Pack? His nephew, Chuck, a sports announcer in San Antonio, approached me at training camp about it.

No, he never played for the Packers. After playing four years, mostly at guard, for St. Norbert College, Miketinac went to camp with the Packers in both 1938 and '39. However, he never appeared in a regular-season game. A 1944 Green Bay Press-Gazette story said a shoulder injury forced him to pack it in both years.