"The least I could do:" Returning a favor, man ensures special Packers fan has a great time at Lambeau

GREEN BAY -- The pomp and circumstance surrounding a Green Bay Packers game at Lambeau Field is an experience that is unique to the NFL. For one young boy, that unique experience took on a whole new meaning recently.

"Call it a euphoria of civility. Everybody having a good time. How the NFL should be, is right out there in the parking lots of Lambeau," Anthony Leonard said. "Can't ask for a better day, not at all. Sun's shining, Cheeseheads are out in force, everybody's having a good time. That's what football is about."

Leonard, better known as "Pack Daddy," was 1,291 miles from his hometown of Houston, Texas.

"I drove on up here. Seeing Lambeau, hanging out with everybody, you can't beat it," Leonard said.  "You can go from tailgate to tailgate to tailgate and meet a new family member. Not just a fan -- a new family member."

"It just feels like a place I would want to live," Gabriel Rembiesa said.

Leonard picked up Rembiesa on his way up to Lambeau from Texas.

""I'm just hoping it's a fair game, both teams play well, no cheating, no deflated balls," Rembiesa said. "I got my bracelets on. I got two Packers bracelets, my watch, my Green Bay tattoo, my dreadlocks, and I'll be wearing my muscle hat."

11-year-old Rembiesa is kind, and that's what brought this unlikely pair together.

"He called us saying he needed our help and we helped him out," Rembiesa said.

"I got stranded on Interstate 57. I was actually driving home from the Seattle game -- so my car was gone. I'm standing there basically on Interstate 57, made a call out to Packer Nation and this little guy, Gabriel, 11 years old answered. He came and rescued me," Leonard said.

"When we went and rescued him, he's just been awesome ever since," Shannon Toombs, Gabriel's mother said.

Rembiesa's generosity had an immediate impact on "Pack Daddy" -- but so did something else.

"He's got epilepsy. He has continuous seizures. He has cerebral, I guess you would call it swelling that they're still trying to diagnose. Along with that, he's got severe asthma, high blood pressure and a multitude of other ones, including he's got tumors growing in his chest. And he never knows if he's going to be here tomorrow. He gets unexplained fevers a lot. He gets bronchitis a lot. They took him off medicine for awhile and he started to have seizures again.  They know it's more than one factor with him. He's not a clear-cut case. There's so many things going on that they have no idea," Toombs said.

Because of all that Gabriel Rembiesa is going through, and because of the young boy's kindness, "Pack Daddy" decided he needed to give back in a special way.

"I had the idea, get a bunch of Cheeseheads, and we all got together and brought him here to Lambeau to have a good time today. So I guess we were meant to meet," Leonard said.

Walking side by side with "Pack Daddy" through the throngs of people in the Lambeau Field parking lot, Rembiesa got a hero's welcome.

I get to be with other Packers fans. I get to meet all my fans," Gabriel Rembiesa said.

His biggest fan, of course, is his mom.

"I haven't seen him smile in such a long time. He goes through a lot every day. The smile is worth it,"  Toombs said.

"No 11-year-old should have to deal with everything he's dealing with every day, just to live. So the least I could do is get him here," Leonard said.

"It's nice having a friend like Pack Daddy," Rembiesa said.

"I he takes away that he is loved, that means more to me than anything. Of course he knows I love him. He just feels really isolated. And no kid, healthy kid, no kid should have to deal with that," Toombs said.

After the game, Rembiesa suffered another set of seizures and had to go back home to Illinois.

His mom says he's recently been back to St. Louis to meet with a hematology oncologist to try and pinpoint what, exactly is going on in his body.