For some Packers fans, wearing a Green Bay T-shirt and watching the game on Sunday just isn't enough. They have a need to express their love of the team through interior design, and they furnish rec rooms and even their entire homes in ways that would make Vince Lombardi proud. It's Lambeau Field feng shui. It's ESPN meets Home and Garden Television, and it runs deep in many of the Packers faithful.

Take, for example, the basement of Teresa, 47, and John Hofmann, 50, of Schofield. "We call it 'The Shrine,'" said Teresa Hofmann, the head custodian at Lincoln Elementary School in Wausau. "We have two TVs, one in the bar area, one in the seating area. We have a Packer tree, and the walls have Packers street names."

The seats in both the bar area and the  seating area have Packers jerseys on them. The whole place is filled with Packers paraphernalia. For the couple, being a Packers fan means surrounding yourself with the green and gold -- a motif they agreed upon years ago.

"We bought the house in 1995, and that's what we decided on," she said. "It's because we love the Packers." 'Addicted to Packers' Chris Kubichek, 26, of Schofield has a spare bedroom that's become a place for him to do daily Packers meditations.

He uses the room to store his treasured Green Bay Packers memorabilia, including several jerseys signed by the likes of Greg Jennings and Donald Driver. There's a ball signed by Brett Favre. He has Ray Nitschke's autograph, LeRoy Butler's autograph, and the list goes on and on.

People are not invited in to watch the game in Kubichek's Green Bay space. In fact, there's no television in the room. "I have no wall space," he said. For Kubichek, adding to the room is part superstition. Every week that he has added a piece this season, the Packers have won. Rest assured he has added to the collection for today's playoff game against the Arizona Cardinals.

The factory worker has taken a part-time job as a cleaner for K-Tech Kleening Systems to "pay for my addiction," he said. "A lot of people are addicted to alcohol or drugs. I'm addicted to the Packers."
Kubichek enters the room every day. "I go in there and look and sit in there and stare at everything," he said. "It makes me a happy person."

Mark Cournaya, 56, of Merrill has transformed half of his basement to honor the Packers, his favorite pro team. He has loved Green Bay since he was kid, growing up in Manistique, a town in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

His family could pick up only one television station there, and it showed Packers games on Sundays. It just stuck with him.

Now his man cave has a Packers rug, Packers bobbleheads, signed Packers jerseys and helmets from players such as Reggie White and Robert Brooks. One of the walls has photos and other memorabilia devoted to Brett Favre, but "only in Packers uniforms. As far as I'm concerned, his career ended when he left the Packers." Even the downstairs bathroom is devoted to the team, complete with a cheesehead toilet seat.

Cournaya, a salesman, would have the whole basement filled with Packers stuff, but the other half of the downstairs is devoted to his other favorite team, which he quietly admits is the Michigan Wolverines. He did grow up in Michigan, after all, he said. America's team?The Packers interior design mania goes beyond the borders of Wisconsin.

Consider Paul Mikoleit, 54, a chef from Depoe Bay, a coastal city in Oregon. His whole house has been turned over to the Green Bay Packers, both inside and out. He has put up a Green Bay logo on a sheet of plywood on his fence that locals use as a landmark when giving directions. He has football helmets, jerseys, neon signs, flags and mirrors. He has three TVs with a special satellite package that allows him to watch the games. "It's really a sports bar," Mikoleit said.

He has been a fan ever since he and his brother watched the famous Ice Bowl game, the sub-zero 1967 NFL Championship game in which the Packers defeated the Dallas Cowboys at Lambeau Field. His brother backed the Dallas Cowboys. Mickoleit rooted for the Packers, and he has been a rabid fan ever since. "Some people have boats, some people have motorcycles," Mikoleit said. "I have a sports bar. ... We don't do anything small."