College pals' road trip leads to Lambeau

Dereyck Moore, Corey Evans and Roary Lee went to school together at Florida A&M.

Moore and Evans were drummers in the Marching 100 band, one of those great bands from historically black colleges. They once thought it couldn't get any better than that. Then they found out it could, and did.

In 2001, the trio of college pals from the Atlanta area started visiting football's greatest venues – Georgia’s Sanford Stadium, Texas Stadium, Michigan Stadium, the Los Angeles Coliseum.

In 2005, they made it Lambeau Field. Here’s what they told Michelle Hiskey of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution about that trip.

"Everyone was so nice. I never knew people who knew that much about football, and they bought us brats. And we bought a cheesehead," Lee said.

"Green Bay beat the Saints something like 52-0 and no one left. Two old ladies near us told us everything we needed to know," Moore said.

(Moore's recollection is close enough. The final score was 52-3.)

If you check out the Atlanta paper's story, you'll see a picture of Moore with John O'Neill, better known to Packers fans as St. Vince.

They take one trip each year. Moore's job is to get the tickets and a hotel. Evans' job is to get the rental car – and always a better one than the year before. Lee's job is to line up the pregame and postgame meals and the tee times.

-- Jeff Ash, jash@greenbaypressgazette.com