The Packers starting right guard, not traveling with the team for the first time in his career due to injury, initially chose to accompany his wife, Laura, to a neighbor’s house to watch the Packers face Washington two weeks ago.
It seemed like a good idea at the time. Until the anxiety of game day started to kick in.
“I went over with her and watched the game, about the first quarter,” Lang said. “That’s all I could take because I really had to go home and watch it by myself.
“Texting with some of the guys, getting ready to get on the bus from the hotel to go over to the stadium, it was very depressing.