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Article: Old man Winters won't rest
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- March 22, 2001
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Old man Winters won't rest
Veteran center says he still wants to start
By TOM SILVERSTEIN
of the Journal Sentinel staff
Thursday, March 22, 2001
Green Bay -- Maybe the Green Bay Packers made a mistake by re-
signing Frank Winters, the veteran center who has been as much a part
of the team's identity the past nine years as freezing temperatures
and bare-armed linemen.
If they signed him to be Mike Flanagan's caddy, then yes they did.
Winters said as much to offensive line coach Larry Beightol when he
signed his revised contract three weeks ago.
"I told Bech, `Hey, if you think I'm going to come down here and
lay down, you guys shouldn't have brought me back here,' " Winters
said during a ...