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Sign comes home to the Kiln
By NAN PATTON EHRBRIGHT
THE SUN HERALD
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Authorities have recovered a highway sign that marked the Mississippi 603 entrance to Kiln, home of the NFL’a most valuable player, Brett Favre.
■	KILN — The highway sign marking the Mississippi 603 entrance to Brett Favre country is coming home.
'Hie sign was found hanging proudly in a business office in Watertown, Wis., after someone snitched it, Watertown Police Department Inspector Larry Sukow said Thursday.
The sign had been reported missing on Feb. 7. For. months, it had been a common practice for out-of-towners to stop next to it for photographs.
Sukow said the culprit, a Watertown businessman, was "very chagrined, (but) became very cooperative” after he was caught with the souvenir.
He was on the Coast for a business trip and visited Hancock County because it is the home of the Green Bay Packers quarterback, named the NFL’s MVP and a starter in the Pro Bowl.
Somehow, the businessman found his way to The
Highway marker turns up displayed prominently in office in Packer country
Broke Spoke, a bikers’ bar in “The Kill,” as folks hereabouts call the small community.
And, somehow, he took possession of the sign.
“Apparently, he got into con-, versation with some of the locals,” Sukow said. "Then it gets unclear. They miay have had it’ there, for all I know. Maybe he simply purchased it. ” ■ The temporary owner of the sign told police he did not' know it was stolen until he saw an Associated Press? story about the theft in the Watertown newspaper. Sukow said the sign is in “perfect shape.”
And, he said, it’s autographed on the back — not with Favre’s name but with “Broke Spoke” and others” signatures.
"There’s not going to be any criminal charges on our end,” Sukow said. “It would be an ordinance violation. It’s a closed case here.”
About then, another phone rang in Sukow’s Watertown office.
“Gotta go,” he said. “Have a sign day.”