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Why mom's first Lambeau trip inspired Packers' thrilling return man Keisean Nixon

GREEN BAY, Wis. -- The ball had not even fallen into Keisean Nixon’s hands yet, and the crowd at Lambeau Field roared with anticipation.

Nixon heard it.

“Turned me up,” he said. “I knew I had to make a play.”

His mom felt it.

All bundled up in the stands for her first cold-weather game Monday night when the Green Bay Packers hosted the Los Angeles Rams -- and her first game of any kind in Green Bay -- Dwanique experienced something new.

“I’d never been in weather that cold,” she told ESPN.