NOTE: The following may be more of an in-depth look at this decade than others. Mainly, because of all the history here in the two blogs…Part 1 and Part 2. I want to pass on to you the best story I can. NBC broadcaster, Tom Brokaw wrote a very good book in 1998 entitled The Greatest Generation depicting Americans who came of age during the Depression, went on to fight in World War II and forge a new and better life for themselves and their families. These people overcame t

Two seasons before, in 1992, Coach Venne talked to the Cudahy principal after his first team went 0-9 and asked him if he could take his players to the 1992 state finals in Madison. He was looking to shake things up and he thought this might do it. The principal agreed and the team went to Madison. While at Camp Randall, as Venne tells it: “Our kids were out there with no shirts on forming a “C” in the north endzone. Some coaches I was sitting with said ‘Who are those idio

1994 was the season of the “Purple Plague”. The “Plague” was all over southeast Wisconsin, and it was fierce. The “Plague” started in Cudahy effecting everyone from Greenfield to Brookfield, over to Wauwatosa, down to Racine and finally, over to Madison. The “Plague” was a force that couldn’t be stopped. Nearby South Milwaukee, Franklin and Greendale were also “plagued”. In 1992, Carey Venne took over as head football coach at Cudahy. While he didn’t reach the heights of