RIP Bart Starr May 26, 2019 We all know of Bart Starr’s prowess on the field both as a quarterback and coach of the Green Bay Packers. But he was also earned legend status off the field. It was the fall of 1983. Starr was entrenched in practice with the Packers when he received a phone call that a special fan was near death. Starr paused practice and took a personal time out to make a stranger's last days happier. That fan was my father. It was a quiet day in our hospice house when the phone rang. A secretary informed me that Bart Starr wished to speak to Pastor Bartz. Pause. Did she really say, Bart Starr? Thee Bart Starr of Green Bay Packer fame? “Yes,” she replied with a smile in her voice. I told her to give me a minute as I pondered the consequences of waking him. You see, dad was dying of Leukemia at the ripe old age of 58 and had stopped seeing people or taking phone calls the week before. He was simply too fatigued and depressed. Daddy w