'Father of the Year' and '#1 Packer Fan' should be awarded to this fine dad who restrained his 7-year-old son with tape for an hour for refusing to put on a Green Bay Packers jersey and then taping the jersey to his son.

Mathew Kowald was cited for disorderly conduct, held in jail for three days and was released after paying a fine of $186.

Kowald, contacted later Wednesday by the Portage Daily Register, said the incident started as a joke. His son challenged him by saying he wouldn’t root for the Packers. When he tied the boy up, the youngster was laughing while his wife took pictures, he said.

“Then he couldn’t get out and he got upset and that’s it. It lasted a minute,” he said. “I didn’t mean no harm, and he knows that, but I haven’t been able to tell him that.”