This is the finest tradition in sports, bar none

I don't care who you are, if you disagree, you're just wrong. Every year, Green Bay Packers players ride from the locker room at Lambeau Field to the team practice fields where training camp is held. Ride how? On the bicycles of children who line up, almost all wearing the jerseys of their favorite players, hoping a Packer will take their bike for the ride. Fortunately, it isn't far, because the bikes are kid-sized and the players, well, aren't:

Usually, the kids get to carry the helmets of the players who took their bikes, because the players have all they can handle piloting these undersized (for them) bicycles. The origins of the tradition are hazy but date at least to the Lombardi years, and possibly earlier, into the late 1950s. There is no question, though, that for every one of these kids, it is a story they will tell their grandchildren:

Don't doubt it.

This is part of what makes the Packers different

Since 1957, the Packers have stayed at St. Norbert College dormitories during training camp, and practiced at team facilities near Lambeau Field. It is the longest training camp relationship between a team and a college in the NFL. Since the beginning of the Vince Lombardi era -- he became head coach in Green Bay in 1959 -- the Packers have had a unique tradition. Players travel from St. Norbert's dorms in Green Bay to the nearby Packers training facilities via bicycles provided by the children of Green Bay and surrounding towns. This has led to some interesting images over the years. This picture is from this year's opening day of training camp. (The other pictures are from other years, but all pictures are from Packers.com, the official website of the Green Bay Packers, and are copyrighted accordingly.)  Looks like that young lady is giving Dereck Sherrod (78) some pointers

It's easy to see that the players like the tradition:

and there's no way that kid in the Clay Matthews jersey won't remember that moment for the rest of his life:

It gives the players and fans a chance to really interact. That's obviously a real conversation:

And that's just two happy people:

No other team in the league does anything like it.