Ford kept close contacts with state

Alan J. Borsuk in today's Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

During a visit to the Green Bay Packers complex on April 3, 1976, then-President Ford told players that in 1935, he played in the East-West Shrine Game after finishing his career as a center on the University of Michigan football team.

After the game, Packers founder and coach Curly Lambeau offered him a contract with the team for $200 a game for a 14-game season.

Ford turned him down, choosing a different career path: He headed to law school at Yale University and a place in American history.