Who is Mike McCarthy? In Green Bay, he’s known as more than just a Super Bowl-winning football coach

Mike McCarthy Way is an industrial street near Lambeau Field. It’s also an entry point into the person the Cowboys hired as head coach.

GREEN BAY, Wis. — Mike McCarthy Way was Bourbon Street with a curfew.

Thousands of Packers fans flooded the industrial neighborhood last Sunday, dancing to a cover band in one parking-lot tent and a DJ in another. A sports restaurant pushed capacity. The Tundra Line pounded drums and clashed cymbals down a sidewalk.

Then, the crowd scattered, trotting for 15 minutes in 15-degree wind chill to a 5:40 p.m. postseason kickoff at Lambeau Field. Like the man for whom it is named, the street knows a hard truth.

No party lasts forever.