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Green Bay Packers: 22 years since LeRoy Butler made the ‘Leap’

With the Green Bay Packers nearing the start of the 2015 NFL season, the team will also be celebrating – on Dec. 26 – the twenty-second anniversary of LeRoy Butler‘s first Lambeau Leap … a touchdown celebration that has not only become synonymous with the Green Bay Packers and Lambeau Field, but one that just cannot be duplicated anywhere else – though it’s been tried.

It was Dec. 26, 1993, that the Leap was first carried out by Butler.

For those of you too young to remember (and those of you who were watching live at the time), it was a frigid day on that Dec.