The Post-Crescent from Appleton, Wisconsin • 7

SUNDAY, JANUARY 19. 1997 POST-CRESCENT, APPLETON-NEENAH-MENASHA, WIS. A-7 White, Landsee have jewel of a friendship "(Reggie White) is just like he sounds in public. It's not just a facade that he puts on for the public to hear about what he a great Christian guy he is." BOB LANDSEE, former Eagles lineman Landsee shot the commercial, along with White's two children, Landsee's two daughters and Landsee's niece and nephew. Landsee could see how tense White was, with his dream of playing in a Super Bowl so close at hand.

"After playing with him for those four years, this was the first time I really felt the tenseness of his whole body," Landsee said. "With the kids in the commercial, he was great. With the kids on his lap, he was chuckling and relaxing and having fun. "But when we got off to the side and I had a chance to sit down and talk to him for a couple of minutes, he said this is the first time he's ever had this feeling of, not nervousness, but serious anxiety." Nevertheless, when a fidgety 4- year-old slowed things down at the shooting, it was White who settled him down. "He said, 'Moose, I can be there a and he ended up staying an hour and 25 minutes to get this thing done," Landsee said.

"He gave me an hour and 25 minutes on the Friday before a game." Act II. Scene II As White jogged around Lambeau Field last Sunday, holding the Halas Trophy high over his head and celebrating the Packers' 30-13 victory over Carolina, Landsee sat in a skybox, watching his longtime friend realize a 12-year-old dream. "I had a shiver in my spine the way that whole thing came off," Landsee said. "To see him running around that field with tears in his eyes and the crowd roaring, it was neat. It was his way of saying thank you back to those people." ways from so many different angles.

But I know where this money goes." Added Landsee, "Once he knew what this was about, that it was a chance for him to be able to give back to the people of Madison, Milwaukee and Green Bay, he committed to it." White even suggested that a personalized thank you letter from him accompany every purchase of a "Reggie Wedge." So, two days before the biggest game of his life, White and reserve), Landsee went head-to-head in practice with White, the player. It's no surprise to Landsee that White was named to his 12th consecutive Pro Bowl this season. Landsee describes their daily jousts as "miserable" because White's work ethic is so strong. "The old theory was that Friday was an eggshell day, where nobody hits hard enough to break an eggshell, but that never really was true with Reggie," Landsee said. "When he was on the football field putting the time into it, he was going to put the effort into it.

He'd always warn you and say, 'Here I come, Moose. Here I come, so be "Every single time you have practice, he comes at you like a nut. But that's the way he plays the game. He lives -what he talks about." Act II, Scene I. It's 1997, two days before the Packers' NFC Championship Game against Carolina, and White is sitting in a Green Bay TV studio shooting a commercial for the "Reggie Wedge," a jewelry memento of Green Bay's season.

Designed by Danford Jewelers of Madison, the "Reggie Wedge" is a 14-carat gold-filled keepsake in the form of a cheese wedge. It's available in tie tack, lapel pin, charm, pendant or key ring attachment. White's initials are on the back, but his endorsement is all over it. The "Reggie Wedge" sells for $49.95 and the majority of the profits will be split between White's Urban Hope Foundation and the NFL Alumni Association's "Caring for Kids" program. Urban Hope is White's faith-based national organization that empowers disadvantaged people in urban and rural areas.

The NFL Alumni Association supports boys' and girls' clubs, By Tom Oates Wisconsin State Journal Green Bay Act Scene I. It was 1986 and Bob Landsee was sit- ting in the dormitory at the Philadelphia Eagles training camp a fifth-round draft pick who had angered teammates and coaches by holding out for a week. In his first practice, Landsee had broken his leg, so there he sat on the players' first day off, ignored by the veterans on their way out the door. Then Reggie White walked by. Already a Pro Bowl defensive end, White looked down at the forlorn figure and, for once, took pity on an offensive lineman.

"I was this rookie from Wisconsin, with no car, sitting in the lobby moping," Landsee said this week. "Up walks Reggie and he says, 'Hey, what are you I said, 'I'm just sitting here with a cast on my He said, 'I'll tell you what. I'm going to the show. Do you want to come with It was just out of the blue." It was the start of a solid friendship between Landsee, whose NFL career lasted five years, and White, who will play in his first Super Bowl Jan. 26 when the Green Bay Packers meet the New England Patriots in New Orleans.

Landsee, who lives in Madison, called White's long-ago invitation a classy move typical of White, the person. "It told me that this is the true Reggie White," Landsee said. "This guy is just like he sounds in public. It's not just a facade that he puts on for the public to hear about what he a great Christian guy he is and all that. All the things that you see in the press and on TV, he's really like that.

He really is." Act Scene II Every day for four years (he missed one year while on injured scouting and children's hospitals in the state. A "Reggie Wedge" can be purchased directly from Danford Jewelers in Madison, the Reggie White Pro Shop in Green Bay or can be ordered via telephone at 1-888-REGWEDG. When Landsee, a member of the NFL Alumni Association's national executive committee and president of the Madison chapter, called White, he agreed to participate and told Landsee, "I've gotten approached so many different Pennants, Key iittip i i imlfflfoi mi i mini 11 I- MUil)vflafltl tffl ilfiK ll tjJkiiWy PfL lilMnliD AAjt I- Vry fyjm 1 Til I Uf I MVIfffl tuSwa pjVs jvYf 1 II 1 II I'll ll I 11 tI II i jLi 1 1 I 10331 1 1 I fjWfTRfM 11 y''" I I I if Si 111 11 1 n.Piinr I il "rrimiw nfflrtftn mi nnmr piiiriiniiii i i mi i ininin 1 1 jMaaaaaaaaialaaBBMaaaaaaLeuaaaaaaiaat, pTWAi II! 2 FREE PWi1jp rati II Ntw ovep.n Must be 18 years of age or fn. iTjjl Qflij II 4 1 I older. Winner is responsible flllVfffTt 1 I for expense incurred to get OTOTraTnl wiiuTHiBif 1 .11 MM to the Super Bowl.

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