January 7, 2022 • 12 mins
In this episode of the Packers POV podcast, kicker Mason Crosby shares stories about proposing to his wife, hunting in Texas and ice fishing in Wisconsin.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Hello, and welcome to Packers p o V, a podcast
that aims to shine a light on the human behind
the helmet. I'm your host, Taylor Rogers. That we are
here at historic lambeau Field. Joining today is an unbelievable guest,
a two time first team All American at University of
Colorado who's played in two hundred forty straight games for
(00:26):
the Packers, the most NFL games by any Colorado Buffalo ever.
He converted all five of his kicks in Green Bay
Super Bowl forty five victory on his way to becoming
number one on the franchise scoring list. We're talking about
the Man, the Myth, the legend, fifteenth year kicker and
eight time team captain Mason Walker Crosby. How's it going, Mason, Hey,
(00:50):
going great? I like the legend. I don't know if
I've heard that one. That was nice. Had to incorporate it. Man,
you've got quite the boot. Well, I appreciate it. Yeah,
it's uh here and some of that stuff. Just thinking
about my time there in Colorado, and uh, I'd be
remissed if I didn't talk about, you know, the people
out there right now dealing with the fires and the
things like that, so, uh, my supporting prayers go out
(01:12):
to them, and you know it was it was a
special time for me being there in uh in school,
absolutely and a very special time. Not only because you've
got recruited and played there and set thirty one records
at Colorado, but you met your wife, Molly exactly. Yes,
Uh that you hit on one of the most important things,
(01:32):
if not the most important things. So I can't say
enough about her. My my wife is just uh, you know,
she's a rock. She's uh, we We've been through a
lot in these uh these fifteen years here in Green Bay,
and uh, you know she is She's the most consistent
person that I've ever been around. So I appreciate her
every day. She is an amazing wife, an amazing mother
(01:53):
to our five kids. That uh, that's a the hardest
job that I've ever ever seen. So I h I
get to do on Sundays feels easy compared to you know,
what she has to deal with on a daily basis.
And she was a cheerleader at Boulder when you were
the kicker, so I'm curious to see how that came together. Well, yeah,
so she she's a great behind me in school, so um,
(02:16):
it was my my sophomore year we met. Um I
was kicking against Iowa State actually, and I think it
was the first game that she had gone to. She
wasn't a cheerleader at the time, she was a freshman,
and she saw my picture. She said, this is her claim.
She saw me on the jumbo drawn after a kick
and uh, this was like before we had ever met.
(02:37):
And then ironically, um, I think these were early days
of Facebook. I sent her a Facebook message. Uh, you know,
as as we kind of had some mutual friends, and um,
we ended up meeting that that's that winter, and uh,
you know it just kind of kind of went from there. So,
you know, we we dated on and off through college.
She Uh, she had big plans and uh, you know,
(02:59):
was was going to be a lawyer and move and
you know, go go do teach for American, do all
these things. And I just wanted to marry her. So
I got her. I convinced her to come to Green
Bay and marry me, and uh and then started life together.
And I know, I'm very fortunate that she took that leap,
and uh, you know, it didn't run away from me.
And how did you pop the question? Well, so It
(03:22):
was actually after the Thursday night game in Dallas, UM
in two thousand and seven, and we flew back to
Green Bay that night. Next morning, I, you know, we
had a few days off. I think I flew out
the boulder at like six thirty in the morning. We
spent the day together there on that Friday, and then
Friday night drove up into the flat irons and uh,
(03:42):
I was I was looking for that perfect spot. And
then at the end of the end of the day
are kind of as we were driving around, I just
couldn't wait any longer. I pulled off. She thought I
had like lost something. Uh I pulled off on the
side of the road overlooking boulder and went to her
side of the car and got down on one knee
and asked her to marry. And you know, and then
the next day we drove up to our parents house
(04:02):
and spend some time with them, and then uh I
flew back to Green Bay and uh, you know, we
were married in June of two thousand and eight. So
we're going on fourteen years this summer and it's uh,
I can't ask for, you know, a better person to
you know, be spending my time here in Green Bay.
In my life with and as you mentioned, you guys
now have five kids, Nolan being the oldest. He's now eleven,
(04:24):
and he's like a young up and coming Mason as
far as all the adventuring. He's a great golfer like
you are. And you guys like to do a lot
of stuff together. I understand that you go ice fishing together.
Actually here in Wisconsin. You know your stuff. So yeah,
Nolan is uh, he's such a great kid. I mean
(04:45):
he yeah, he's our firstborn. He's he's my only son,
and I love watching him, you know, just grow up
in the the adventurous mind he has. I love that he's, uh,
he's a golfer. So we're getting into that mode where
it's like if we we go somewhere nice, somewhere warm, um,
we can sneak away and he can cruise around for
eighteen no problem. But I do, like you mentioned fishing,
(05:07):
I think fishing, outside of like all of the sports
he plays, would probably be his his passion. As Nolan
started getting into it, and uh, you know, we're spending
more time in the winters here as the kids are
in school, it was like we gotta dive into the
you know, all the Wisconsin traditions and make sure that
we uh, you know, we do all this stuff throughout
the winter. So you know the process of ice fishing
is uh, it's a lot of hanging out. It's like
(05:29):
you build fires, you uh, you play on the ice.
You you you know, you do other things and then that
tip up you know, comes up, and uh you run
over and then yeah, that fish comes up. If it's
a big one, then uh. You know, I think we've
had some you know, some ice sliding, you know, some celebrating.
You know, Nolan has a taste for adventure and for
that joy. So whenever he sees that, you know, that
(05:49):
fish and whenever he's excited, you know, jumping up and
you know we're fist pumping and hugging, and uh, I
just remember some fun moments here these last few years
of you know, pulling fish out of the ice and uh,
you know, just the fun moments that ensue after. It's
got to be a little bit like looking in the
mirror because you grew up doing all this stuff in Texas, uh,
and you've done a lot of hunting and it's wild.
(06:11):
When you look at your bio from Colorado, it says
hunting parentheses deer slash exotic. So I'm curious, man, what
does that mean? What's an exotic? Yeah, so growing up
in Texas, um, you know, the climate, the terrain and
all the rush and everything is very similar to Africa
and some other areas, Like we're basically straight across. So
(06:33):
we actually have a lot of African animals, exotic animals
that we bring into ranches in Texas. So I was
fortunate enough to shoot you know, a few, you know,
different you know types of exotic animals. Um, you know
access dear, they've brought those in and now they're actually
wild in Texas, so they're they're all over the place.
I have a fallow deer in my house and we
(06:54):
actually decorated most of our house here in Green Bay
after that deer, after that mount So their credit to
my wife, Molly, she's she's great that you know, I
could put a deer mountain in our great room and
then uh, you'll have cow hides and printed animal rugs
all over all over the house. So I got a
great one there, you do. And you've got another great one.
(07:16):
Your mom founded a nonprofit you're involved with called the
Locker that empowers kids down in your hometown of Georgetown, Texas. Yeah,
that's right. So um yeah, she um started that organization
about I guess thirteen fourteen years ago. And the concept
of the Locker is to try to give these kids
everything they need to try to be successful. You know,
(07:37):
they give Captain gallants to kids, you know, if they
if they can't afford them. They help kids get you know, bicycles,
you know, if they need them to go to work
or to bradt to school or whatever. And um, you know,
so whatever the need might be, you know, the school
people contact them and you know they try to step
in and fill that, fill that void. You seem to me, Mason,
like a natural born dad and here in green that
(08:00):
when you're not playing games, of course, you're shuttling your
five kids around to all their different activities. What's that
like here in Green Bay? And then how do you
get a chance to spend time as Mason Crosby? Yeah,
you know. So yeah, whenever my my job ends here
at the stadium, I go home and I'm I'm I'm
a dad. Whenever I'm home, I'm locked into my kids
(08:21):
and they know my wife and you know, being a
family guy and so it usually is now as as
they're getting older, I get home and it's like, all right,
we're hitting the ground run and we gotta take you know,
two girls to dance class, and then one's going to
cheer practice and then basketball, soccer, you know, whatever it
might be. So it's fun. I love those drives. I
love taking kids to their activities because you get those
(08:42):
honest conversations. They're asking questions, You get to ask them questions,
and you get to really catch up on the day
and uh, you know, those are the special moments for
me that that I remember so much as a kid too,
with my with my parents, was going to ball games,
going to family trips, Like my dad traveled for work,
and you know a lot of our trips were we
would road trip to wherever, you know, he needed to,
(09:05):
you know, go for his first job, and we explore
and do things. And he, you know, whenever he wasn't working,
he's you know, he was he was running with us
to the zoo or you know, to a water park
or doing whatever. So those moments and sometimes even just
the journey and the drives, um were some of the
things I remember, you know, so vividly, and uh, you know,
for me, it's um with my kids, it's like remembering
(09:28):
those things and almost trying to give them that, uh,
you know, those memories for for themselves, but reminding them
that you know, the journey and like the process getting
to that exciting moment or that next you know thing.
Um can be so wonderful and don't take it for granted.
So I feel very fortunate with my childhood and the
way I got to grow up and having having two
(09:48):
parents at home. Um, you know, it's I feel very blessed.
And they still I mean they come to most games.
So it's pretty awesome that I get to still play
a play a game that you know, my parents can
come and watched me after all these years, and uh,
you know, I can still feel like a kid sometimes
whenever you know, when they're they're in the house and uh,
you know, preparing for a game with me. Dating back
(10:09):
to two thousand three, since college, you've really had a
legendary now eighteen year career. And when you look at
what you've accomplished so far on the field, what are
the things that stand out to you that you want
to accomplish off of it? You have a lot of
passions um, you know outside of the outside of the game,
and um, you know some of those are doing things
(10:32):
and good things for others, you know, and you know,
we talked about the locker. Have a lot of you know,
other organizations that I you know, I support and that
I'm involved with. And UM, you know something that I've
gotten involved with over the years is a you know,
an organization called Papor Ministries and um, you know I've
gone to Haiti with them as well, and uh, you know,
diving more into that. You know, there's I'm a big
(10:53):
soccer guy, you know, so there's there's been some opportunities
here as of late where I can have gotten more
involved with some potential soccer endeavors. And you know that
kind of space really intrigues me of you know, trying
to grow the game here in the US and uh,
you know, find ways and opportunities to you know, get
kids and youth more involved. Um, it's definitely something I'm
(11:14):
passionate about. And having five kids, I look at the
mental health, uh you know, and like the mental side
of things a lot for the for the children, and
I wouldn't mind diving into a space there. I feel
like I have so much experience. Um, you know, with
what I've gone through in my career, the highs, the lows,
you know, the good and the bad. Just um, you know,
being able to deal with adversity and you know, tough things.
(11:36):
I feel like our youth right now and the kids,
um you know in our you know, in our world
just sometimes feel the weight of a lot of things.
And to be able to try to reach them early
and uh kind of put a better in a different
perspective in their minds as they go through this journey.
Something like that would be uh, you know something I
could you be really passionate about. Mason, Thank you so
(11:56):
much for taking the time today, my pleasure. Thank you
to learn or about the great work Mason and his
mom are doing off the field. Visit the locker dot info.
Take care and see you next time.
Hello, and welcome to Packers p o V, a podcast
that aims to shine a light on the human behind
the helmet. I'm your host, Taylor Rogers. That we are
here at historic lambeau Field. Joining today is an unbelievable guest,
a two time first team All American at University of
Colorado who's played in two hundred forty straight games for
(00:26):
the Packers, the most NFL games by any Colorado Buffalo ever.
He converted all five of his kicks in Green Bay
Super Bowl forty five victory on his way to becoming
number one on the franchise scoring list. We're talking about
the Man, the Myth, the legend, fifteenth year kicker and
eight time team captain Mason Walker Crosby. How's it going, Mason, Hey,
(00:50):
going great? I like the legend. I don't know if
I've heard that one. That was nice. Had to incorporate it. Man,
you've got quite the boot. Well, I appreciate it. Yeah,
it's uh here and some of that stuff. Just thinking
about my time there in Colorado, and uh, I'd be
remissed if I didn't talk about, you know, the people
out there right now dealing with the fires and the
things like that, so, uh, my supporting prayers go out
(01:12):
to them, and you know it was it was a
special time for me being there in uh in school,
absolutely and a very special time. Not only because you've
got recruited and played there and set thirty one records
at Colorado, but you met your wife, Molly exactly. Yes,
Uh that you hit on one of the most important things,
(01:32):
if not the most important things. So I can't say
enough about her. My my wife is just uh, you know,
she's a rock. She's uh, we We've been through a
lot in these uh these fifteen years here in Green Bay,
and uh, you know she is She's the most consistent
person that I've ever been around. So I appreciate her
every day. She is an amazing wife, an amazing mother
(01:53):
to our five kids. That uh, that's a the hardest
job that I've ever ever seen. So I h I
get to do on Sundays feels easy compared to you know,
what she has to deal with on a daily basis.
And she was a cheerleader at Boulder when you were
the kicker, so I'm curious to see how that came together. Well, yeah,
so she she's a great behind me in school, so um,
(02:16):
it was my my sophomore year we met. Um I
was kicking against Iowa State actually, and I think it
was the first game that she had gone to. She
wasn't a cheerleader at the time, she was a freshman,
and she saw my picture. She said, this is her claim.
She saw me on the jumbo drawn after a kick
and uh, this was like before we had ever met.
(02:37):
And then ironically, um, I think these were early days
of Facebook. I sent her a Facebook message. Uh, you know,
as as we kind of had some mutual friends, and um,
we ended up meeting that that's that winter, and uh,
you know it just kind of kind of went from there. So,
you know, we we dated on and off through college.
She Uh, she had big plans and uh, you know,
(02:59):
was was going to be a lawyer and move and
you know, go go do teach for American, do all
these things. And I just wanted to marry her. So
I got her. I convinced her to come to Green
Bay and marry me, and uh and then started life together.
And I know, I'm very fortunate that she took that leap,
and uh, you know, it didn't run away from me.
And how did you pop the question? Well, so It
(03:22):
was actually after the Thursday night game in Dallas, UM
in two thousand and seven, and we flew back to
Green Bay that night. Next morning, I, you know, we
had a few days off. I think I flew out
the boulder at like six thirty in the morning. We
spent the day together there on that Friday, and then
Friday night drove up into the flat irons and uh,
(03:42):
I was I was looking for that perfect spot. And
then at the end of the end of the day
are kind of as we were driving around, I just
couldn't wait any longer. I pulled off. She thought I
had like lost something. Uh I pulled off on the
side of the road overlooking boulder and went to her
side of the car and got down on one knee
and asked her to marry. And you know, and then
the next day we drove up to our parents house
(04:02):
and spend some time with them, and then uh I
flew back to Green Bay and uh, you know, we
were married in June of two thousand and eight. So
we're going on fourteen years this summer and it's uh,
I can't ask for, you know, a better person to
you know, be spending my time here in Green Bay.
In my life with and as you mentioned, you guys
now have five kids, Nolan being the oldest. He's now eleven,
(04:24):
and he's like a young up and coming Mason as
far as all the adventuring. He's a great golfer like
you are. And you guys like to do a lot
of stuff together. I understand that you go ice fishing together.
Actually here in Wisconsin. You know your stuff. So yeah,
Nolan is uh, he's such a great kid. I mean
(04:45):
he yeah, he's our firstborn. He's he's my only son,
and I love watching him, you know, just grow up
in the the adventurous mind he has. I love that he's, uh,
he's a golfer. So we're getting into that mode where
it's like if we we go somewhere nice, somewhere warm, um,
we can sneak away and he can cruise around for
eighteen no problem. But I do, like you mentioned fishing,
(05:07):
I think fishing, outside of like all of the sports
he plays, would probably be his his passion. As Nolan
started getting into it, and uh, you know, we're spending
more time in the winters here as the kids are
in school, it was like we gotta dive into the
you know, all the Wisconsin traditions and make sure that
we uh, you know, we do all this stuff throughout
the winter. So you know the process of ice fishing
is uh, it's a lot of hanging out. It's like
(05:29):
you build fires, you uh, you play on the ice.
You you you know, you do other things and then that
tip up you know, comes up, and uh you run
over and then yeah, that fish comes up. If it's
a big one, then uh. You know, I think we've
had some you know, some ice sliding, you know, some celebrating.
You know, Nolan has a taste for adventure and for
that joy. So whenever he sees that, you know, that
(05:49):
fish and whenever he's excited, you know, jumping up and
you know we're fist pumping and hugging, and uh, I
just remember some fun moments here these last few years
of you know, pulling fish out of the ice and uh,
you know, just the fun moments that ensue after. It's
got to be a little bit like looking in the
mirror because you grew up doing all this stuff in Texas, uh,
and you've done a lot of hunting and it's wild.
(06:11):
When you look at your bio from Colorado, it says
hunting parentheses deer slash exotic. So I'm curious, man, what
does that mean? What's an exotic? Yeah, so growing up
in Texas, um, you know, the climate, the terrain and
all the rush and everything is very similar to Africa
and some other areas, Like we're basically straight across. So
(06:33):
we actually have a lot of African animals, exotic animals
that we bring into ranches in Texas. So I was
fortunate enough to shoot you know, a few, you know,
different you know types of exotic animals. Um, you know
access dear, they've brought those in and now they're actually
wild in Texas, so they're they're all over the place.
I have a fallow deer in my house and we
(06:54):
actually decorated most of our house here in Green Bay
after that deer, after that mount So their credit to
my wife, Molly, she's she's great that you know, I
could put a deer mountain in our great room and
then uh, you'll have cow hides and printed animal rugs
all over all over the house. So I got a
great one there, you do. And you've got another great one.
(07:16):
Your mom founded a nonprofit you're involved with called the
Locker that empowers kids down in your hometown of Georgetown, Texas. Yeah,
that's right. So um yeah, she um started that organization
about I guess thirteen fourteen years ago. And the concept
of the Locker is to try to give these kids
everything they need to try to be successful. You know,
(07:37):
they give Captain gallants to kids, you know, if they
if they can't afford them. They help kids get you know, bicycles,
you know, if they need them to go to work
or to bradt to school or whatever. And um, you know,
so whatever the need might be, you know, the school
people contact them and you know they try to step
in and fill that, fill that void. You seem to me, Mason,
like a natural born dad and here in green that
(08:00):
when you're not playing games, of course, you're shuttling your
five kids around to all their different activities. What's that
like here in Green Bay? And then how do you
get a chance to spend time as Mason Crosby? Yeah,
you know. So yeah, whenever my my job ends here
at the stadium, I go home and I'm I'm I'm
a dad. Whenever I'm home, I'm locked into my kids
(08:21):
and they know my wife and you know, being a
family guy and so it usually is now as as
they're getting older, I get home and it's like, all right,
we're hitting the ground run and we gotta take you know,
two girls to dance class, and then one's going to
cheer practice and then basketball, soccer, you know, whatever it
might be. So it's fun. I love those drives. I
love taking kids to their activities because you get those
(08:42):
honest conversations. They're asking questions, You get to ask them questions,
and you get to really catch up on the day
and uh, you know, those are the special moments for
me that that I remember so much as a kid too,
with my with my parents, was going to ball games,
going to family trips, Like my dad traveled for work,
and you know a lot of our trips were we
would road trip to wherever, you know, he needed to,
(09:05):
you know, go for his first job, and we explore
and do things. And he, you know, whenever he wasn't working,
he's you know, he was he was running with us
to the zoo or you know, to a water park
or doing whatever. So those moments and sometimes even just
the journey and the drives, um were some of the
things I remember, you know, so vividly, and uh, you know,
for me, it's um with my kids, it's like remembering
(09:28):
those things and almost trying to give them that, uh,
you know, those memories for for themselves, but reminding them
that you know, the journey and like the process getting
to that exciting moment or that next you know thing.
Um can be so wonderful and don't take it for granted.
So I feel very fortunate with my childhood and the
way I got to grow up and having having two
(09:48):
parents at home. Um, you know, it's I feel very blessed.
And they still I mean they come to most games.
So it's pretty awesome that I get to still play
a play a game that you know, my parents can
come and watched me after all these years, and uh,
you know, I can still feel like a kid sometimes
whenever you know, when they're they're in the house and uh,
you know, preparing for a game with me. Dating back
(10:09):
to two thousand three, since college, you've really had a
legendary now eighteen year career. And when you look at
what you've accomplished so far on the field, what are
the things that stand out to you that you want
to accomplish off of it? You have a lot of
passions um, you know outside of the outside of the game,
and um, you know some of those are doing things
(10:32):
and good things for others, you know, and you know,
we talked about the locker. Have a lot of you know,
other organizations that I you know, I support and that
I'm involved with. And UM, you know something that I've
gotten involved with over the years is a you know,
an organization called Papor Ministries and um, you know I've
gone to Haiti with them as well, and uh, you know,
diving more into that. You know, there's I'm a big
(10:53):
soccer guy, you know, so there's there's been some opportunities
here as of late where I can have gotten more
involved with some potential soccer endeavors. And you know that
kind of space really intrigues me of you know, trying
to grow the game here in the US and uh,
you know, find ways and opportunities to you know, get
kids and youth more involved. Um, it's definitely something I'm
(11:14):
passionate about. And having five kids, I look at the
mental health, uh you know, and like the mental side
of things a lot for the for the children, and
I wouldn't mind diving into a space there. I feel
like I have so much experience. Um, you know, with
what I've gone through in my career, the highs, the lows,
you know, the good and the bad. Just um, you know,
being able to deal with adversity and you know, tough things.
(11:36):
I feel like our youth right now and the kids,
um you know in our you know, in our world
just sometimes feel the weight of a lot of things.
And to be able to try to reach them early
and uh kind of put a better in a different
perspective in their minds as they go through this journey.
Something like that would be uh, you know something I
could you be really passionate about. Mason, Thank you so
(11:56):
much for taking the time today, my pleasure. Thank you
to learn or about the great work Mason and his
mom are doing off the field. Visit the locker dot info.
Take care and see you next time.
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