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Feb 18, 2023
Feb 18, 2023

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Chris Hardie looks like this in 1980.

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Chris Hardie's dad, Robert Hardie, looks like this in 1980.

Contributed by Chris Hardie

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Chris Hardie For Agri-View

So many Super Bowls have faded into my memory but there’s one Super Bowl Sunday I will never forget.

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Chris Hardie and his wife, Sherry, raise animals and crops on his great-grandparents’ Jackson County farm. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 2001, he’s a former member of the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council and past-president of the Wisconsin Newspaper Association. Email chardie1963@gmail.com with comments.