A fan once released a turkey onto Lambeau Field during a Packers game. That person's identity revealed on ESPN's 'Sunday NFL Countdown.'

The mystery over why Jordan Love didn't receive a customary turkey leg after the Green Bay Packers carved up the Detroit Lions on Thanksgiving Day continues.

But another mystery involving a turkey and the Packers has been solved after being a "cold case" for 35 years.

ESPN's "Sunday NFL Countdown" today will dive into one of the greatest questions in Packers history and it has nothing to do with any debate about who is the greatest quarterback to wear green and gold.

The show will find the answer to who the perpetrator was who released a turkey onto Lambeau Field during a Packers game in 1988.

If you don't remember that moment or weren't around to witness it, here's a little history lesson around the turkey game at Lambeau Field.

Packers turkey game vs. Indianapolis Colts that ESPN's 'Sunday NFL Countdown' will feature

It was Week 11 when the Packers were playing the Indianapolis Colts on Nov. 13, 1988. The Colts were facing a third-and-2 in the first half and close to scoring when a turkey made its way onto the field.

"There's a turkey on the field," the announcer said laughing. "Packer fans trying to gobble up a win have sent a turkey onto the field."

The Packers were 2-8 and coming off back-to-back shutout losses in which they were outscored by a combined 48-0. Was this turkey sending them a message?

A young Bob Costas broke down the action for NBC Sports like he was taught it in broadcast school.

"A little episode in Green Bay, a fan looking to show his displeasure with the Packers brought a turkey to Lambeau Field," Costas said so calmly. "The gobbler gets loose and now he's gobbling up yardage, across midfield makes a move to the sideline. He's too quick for Ron Hallstrom of the Packers and he darts out of bounds to stop the clock.

"An amazing moment in Green Bay," Costas added from the studio at halftime of the game.

The Packers ended up losing to the Colts, 20-13, on a chilly day to fall to 2-9 on their way to a 4-12 season and last place in the NFC Central Division. The Colts Twitter account even recalled the turkey incident in 2016 after another animal raced onto the field for a Packers-Colts game at Lambeau.

But the 53,000 fans at Lambeau Field that day in 1988 likely don't remember much about the play on the field. Rather, the turkey might have been the most they cheered all season.

"I’m sure that was a disgruntled fan," said Hallstrom, a Packers offensive lineman that season, during an NFL Films story on the incident on the 30-year anniversary. "Maybe this is a message, you’re just a bunch of turkeys."

NFL Films featured Packers turkey story on 30-year anniversary with former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson

When NFL Films wrote their story they pulled out all the stops to get the person responsible to come forward. They even had former Gov. Tommy Thompson on, telling the fan that they no longer could be arrested.

"That person should now come forward and relieve his conscience," Thompson said in the NFL Films video. "Bare his soul out there to the public. The statute of limitations have run. He cannot go to jail. He should come forward and confess. The Packers would like it, the police would like it, the fans would like it if this one individual would step forward and say, I'm guilty, I released the turkey."

Gary Suski is person who released turkey onto Lambeau Field during Packers game in 1988

Well, that person apparently feels now is the right time to step up.

The guilty party is Gary Suski, who was a Lambeau Field usher for more than 20 years. And it doesn't appear he was a disgruntled fan as Hallstrom may have thought. So what was his reasoning for his actions 35 years ago?

"We were sitting around talking sports and I said, 'you know it'd be nice for me to throw a turkey on that field," Suski says while dressed in full Packers attire in a preview to the ESPN interview that will air Sunday morning. "They said 'no way.' And I said, 'I think I can do it.'"

Where would he find a live turkey? Through a turkey farmer, of course.

"I said let’s go in the garage and get the wildest one you got,” Suski remembers saying.

But he couldn't act alone. He had an accomplice, Trish Kurowski, who is also interviewed from the Lambeau Field stands for the story.

"He wanted me to put it under my coat and walk in like I was pregnant," Kurowski recalled. "Ah, no."

Gary Suski had the turkey in a box before hiding it in his coat on his way down to Lambeau Field front row railing

During that 1988 game broadcast after the turkey was released onto the field the announcer pondered "how do you smuggle a turkey into a stadium?"

Kurowski arrived early with his plan in place and the turkey in a box.

He then went into a bathroom stall to get the turkey out but as he opened the box, the bird began to fly away. What did he expect with a bird? "Wings were going, but finally got it in my coat," he said.

Then at the end of the first quarter he determined it was now or never. "I might as well do it," Suski remembers thinking. He said he waited for the cameras to pass and then went down to the railing.

He did it.

"Turkey ran off 40 yards," Kurowski says. "Biggest run of the day."

"Go turkey go," Suski was saying to himself.

Fans soon named the bird Henrietta.

ESPN's story also includes an interview with Bryan Nehring, the Packers assistant equipment manager at the time, who helped guide the turkey off the field, describing it as "a little Sunday stroll."

The turkey was sent to a Brown County reforestation camp and even was "pardoned" by Thompson, then the governor, a couple weeks before Thanksgiving as the incident gained a lot of attention.

When will the Packers turkey segment air?

The turkey feature will air at approximately 10:10 a.m. Central time, according to Lily Blum, a senior publicist with ESPN.

What time is ESPN's Sunday NFL Countdown on?

The long-running NFL Sunday preview show airs from 9 a.m. to noon.

Host Samantha Ponder is joined by Hall of Famer Randy Moss, Super Bowl champions Tedy Bruschi and Rex Ryan and former Pro Bowl quarterback Alex Smith in studio.

Senior NFL Insider Adam Schefter is also part of the show, along with a host of field reporters.

This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: ESPN's 'Sunday NFL Countdown' to solve mystery over Packers turkey