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For ex-Badgers standout Rick Wagner, return home to Wisconsin means being in ‘a special place’

GREEN BAY — Rick Wagner doesn’t remember the exact year, and he doesn’t even remember which players signed the autographs. He just remembers being in heaven.

Wagner

He was just a kid back then, road-tripping up Interstate 43 with his parents from their home in the Milwaukee suburb of West Allis to see his beloved Green Bay Packers, only a few years removed from winning Super Bowl XXXI, practice and maybe have a few guys sign his hat.

“I was probably eight, nine or 10,” the Packers new starting right tackle remembered. “I only really went to two games as a kid.