The Kleiber Family Timeline

Category: Sports

Sporting Events

  • Liberty Bell and Football Game In Philadelphia 1997

    Friends who I went to grade school with are affectionately known as “the little friends”. Here are some of the little friends on a trip to Philadelphia to do a little bit of sight seeing, eat some cheese steak sandwiches, drink some beer, and watch a Lions game (or I should say a Lions loss, never saw a team like this that loses so much but has such great talent like Barry Sanders). The tailgate party by far was the highlight of the day, did not really want it to end but eventually we had to go into the stadium and watch the Lions.

    Turns out the game of kick the can in the parking lot was better than the actual game in the stadium.

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  • Fishing on Houghton Lake 1997

    Our friend Ernie and his family have a cottage up North and we decided to spend a day fishing at Houghton Lake. The first stop was to get fishing licenses and such, then we went to the pontoon rental place and rented a boat which we proceeded to stock with the finer accessories of fishing (ie brew).

    We ended the day pulling into a bar that was on the dock and had dinner, then returned the boat safe and sound back to its owner. Jim was the only to catch anything other than sun that day, but he let the fish go once he got a picture of it.

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  • Red Wings Championship Parade 1997

    After 42 years the Detroit Red Wings broke the curse and won a Stanley Cup, here we are celebrating downtown the day of the parade. It was an extremely hot summer day and we waited downtown for hours, so we were quite parched when the parade finally ended at Hart Plaza. We did not stay for the speeches, only the parade. We went to a great bar with an outdoor barbecue and one of the Red Wings showed up to get a bratwurst off the grill so that was kind of neat.

    Great time was had by all and congrats to the Detroit Red Wings. Now if we can just do something about those Lions…

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  • Softball Team Makes Championship Game 1980

    The Lepire Paper softball team made it to the championship game, but lost in a very close game. Seeing that it was only the teams second year in existence playing against teams that had been playing for years and decades in some cases, it was quite the achievement. This would be the last softball game James Dad would play before going to the Army about a month later.