GREEN BAY, Wis. — The man with the most famous red beard in Wisconsin was three bites into his chicken sandwich Tuesday night when someone approached his table at Kroll’s West, a bar and restaurant across the street from Lambeau Field, with a small placard and a Sharpie.

Brian Rittich, a game-day parking attendant at the restaurant, asked the beard’s owner, Jeremy Wilcox, to write something to post on the Kroll’s wall of fame, where luminaries like the Packers great Bart Starr, former Vice President Al Gore and the television personality Regis Philbin had left greetings.

After some thought, Wilcox wrote in elegant script: “Stay Strong! Never Shave! Lucky Beard Guy!” Then he signed his name, boldly and legibly, as if he had given autographs all his life.

“Everyone in my family has good handwriting,” Wilcox said.

Wilcox, a 39-year-old bear of a man at 6 feet 5 inches and more than 300 pounds, cannot go anywhere in Wisconsin without being recognized as the guy with the nine-inch-long beard tugged by Aaron Rodgers on national television during Green Bay’s regular-season finale, against Detroit on Dec. 28.