How British Comedian Jake Lambert Became a Die-Hard Green Bay Packers Fan

Jake Lambert lives in London and has never been to Lambeau Field. He is also a die-hard Packers fan, and he explained to Rich exactly how that happened.

"I wanted to pick a team," the British comedian said. "The least cool answer is that green's my favorite color." Then he found out the Packers are fan-owned, which he thought was very cool. Then came the detail that sealed it: his last name is Lambert, and people back home call him Lambeau. When he learned the stadium was Lambeau Field, the decision made itself. "It just led to it, so I had no choice, and I went in, and now I love them," Lambert said. "I watch them every week. Sometimes I hate them, but overall I love them."

Sunday games start at 6 p.m. in the UK, so Lambert settles in with Red Zone and Scott Hanson, who follows him on Instagram and DMs with him. For a long time, though, Lambert thought Hanson was somebody else. "When I first started watching it, I thought it was the guy from Dateline," he said. "What a turn of events, to go from catching predators to just announcing football scores."

Rich ran with it. "It's funny that the guy from To Catch a Predator also just talks about eight things at once and doesn't pee for four and a half hours," he said. Lambert pictured Hanson bulking up, getting a gym membership and deciding he'd had enough of predators.

Lambert came on board in the Aaron Rodgers era, and he admitted the Packers have not won a Super Bowl since he started following them. He also supports Tottenham in the Premier League, and he sees uncanny parallels between his two teams. The Packers lost Rodgers around the same time Spurs lost Harry Kane. The Packers had too many wide receivers, with names like Wicks and Bo Melton, and struggled to find chemistry. Tottenham had too many wingers who kept getting rotated and never clicked. This season, Lambert said, both started badly and turned it around in the same week.

"So we play on a Saturday, and then you'll see how the Packers were doing on the Sunday," Lambert said. Rich had no idea he needed to look to Tottenham for a Packers forecast.

Rich has called NFL games at Tottenham's stadium, and he said it is as good as any NFL stadium. He recalled that the first game he called there had Tampa Bay as the home team, and the stadium was dressed in red, which he was told is Arsenal's color and an affront to Spurs fans. Lambert said that will not happen again; red teams get sent to Wembley now. "If the Chiefs wanted to come over there, they'd put them in Wembley," he said.

He also explained that the NFL keeps its turf at Tottenham year round and that the club insisted on green pellets so you can't tell the fake grass apart. His verdict: "You Brits are very fussy." Lambert accepted it, adding that he has noticed Americans want direct answers, a lesson he learned while getting a social security number and repeating "I don't know" until he sounded like he was malfunctioning.

The fan who chose the Packers partly for the stadium name has still never been to Lambeau. He wants to go next year, and he wants a winter game "to fully experience it." Rich suggested he try a Lambeau Leap and offered a warning: "The wall is way taller than you think." Lambert's solution was a mini trampoline.