GREEN BAY — If and when Metallica’s “ Enter Sandman ” blares over the Lambeau Field loudspeakers sometime during the fourth quarter of the 211th installment of the historic Green Bay Packers-Chicago Bears rivalry — as a nod to star pass rusher Micah Parsons’ late-game dominance, and an homage to arguably the greatest closer in baseball history, Mariano Rivera — that moment will have been three decades in the making.

To be sure, the catalyst will have been Packers defensive coordinator Jeff Hafley’s off-the-cuff suggestion on Nov. 20, as he exited stage right following his weekly Q&A session with reporters.

But its origin story actually goes back much further — to a baseball-loving dad taking his two sons to see their favorite team win it all; to an older brother sleeping outside one of

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