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A young fan named Trace Ramirez pulled off an incredible feat during Green Bay Packers’ “Family Night” that he is certain to never, ever forget.
The annual event is supposed to showcase Jordan Love, Josh Jacobs, Xavier McKinney and the rest of the pros on the Packers’ squad, but the player who made the biggest mark turned out to be an 11-year-old youth football player from Waupun, Wisconsin.
That’s because Ramirez was given a chance to field some footballs shot from the Packers’ JUGS machine, which was set up to simulate punts.
Not only did he catch the first punt that was sent his way, he caught the second one, and the third one, all without discarding any of the balls he caught along the way.
His incredible feat in front of 60,000 fans brought the house down with pretty much the entire Packers’ squad cheering and racing on to the field to celebrate by mobbing the young football player.
This young @packers fan caught 3 balls at once and the whole squad was LOVING IT. pic.twitter.com/BOlawDtUyP
— NFL (@NFL) August 5, 2024
“I’m freaking out and staring up at them because they’re all six feet tall,” Trace told the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. “It was amazing.”
Here it is from a different angle.
SIGN HIM NOW pic.twitter.com/yEH8TOCA9j
— CheeseheadTV 🧀 (@cheeseheadtv) August 4, 2024
There was something else that got the Packers’ players so fired up when Ramirez made his spectacular catches. Before he made his attempt, two of the Packers’ players went first. One caught six out of seven and the other barely caught three. Of course, they caught them all one at a time.
“That was the joke on social media, that the little guy caught more than you,” Trace’s dad Paul said.
Also, before Trace’s attempt, wide receiver Christian Watson bet Ramirez 20 push-ups that he couldn’t catch even one. Watson ended up doing the 20 push-ups.
Trace Ramirez said his friends can’t believe what happened.
“They said that I’m famous. I have a million views or something,” Trace said. “They’re so happy for me, joking around and saying they want my autograph.”