Hanford Dixon on ... The Dawg Pound

 You have everybody talking about how the Dawg Pound got started, but my story is the true story. Me being from down South, I remember that old dog chasing that cat, and that dog used to really, really get after that cat.

At the time, we had the two great linebackers, Chip Banks and Clay Matthews, and we had two Pro Bowl corners in Frank [Minnifield] and myself, but we never truly had that great, great pass rusher. So I was thinking of something to try and motivate those guys and get them going. I told them to think of that old dog. The quarterback is the cat and you guys are the dog, so we're gonna bark at you and let's get it going.

We were having training camp at Lakeland Community College, and the fans were so close to the field. We started barking and they just took over the whole damn thing. The fans, obviously, they caught on right away.