2006 December » Brats & Beer

December 31, 2006

According to the Wikipedia, bears evolved from a dog-sized raccoon-like creature called Cephalogale and are part of the same family of mammals as weasles. I believe that goes for Bears fans as well.
So here it is, the last day of 2006 and the end of the regular season. There is a part of me that […]

December 22, 2006

I feel like I just got a lump of Coal Candy in my stocking for Christmas. Yeah, the win over the Vikings was sweet, but it sure was nasty to look at. (Actually, I didn’t see it at all because of the unholy and unjust blackout of the game caused by the NFL Network and […]

December 20, 2006

As if I needed another reason to dislike Boston. Actually, that’s not very fair; Beantown is a perfectly nice city if you like impossible to navigate streets, obnoxious Red Sox fans, and mullets. (They do have Legal Sea Food and that is some damn good eating.) But there is another reason to hate Boston, Boston […]

December 19, 2006

They say that records are made to be broken, and that is something I would certainly agree to when we’re talking about anything that features Kenny G, Styx, or Justin Timberlake.
Actually there were a few milestones set in the Packers win over the Lions yesterday, not the least of which was Brett Favre reaching 4,974 […]

December 17, 2006

According to the NFL.com site, the Packers were supposed to play the Lions today, but listening to the game I could have sworn it was The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight vs. The Keystone Kops. Neither Detroit nor Green Bay played well enough to deserve the win, but the Packers did put together a nice […]

December 12, 2006

Artificial turf at Lambeau Field? In the immortal words of the immortal Vince Lombardi, “What the Hell is going on out there?”
Last week the Green Bay Packers announced they plan to replace the Frozen Tundra next year with a new surface called DD GrassMaster, described as a “natural grass surface reinforced with man-made fibers.” According […]

December 11, 2006

‘Tis the season to be jolly, finally, and the Packers gave us all something to be cheerful about yesterday with a 30-19 win over the 49ers. It was hardly the playoff season I had asked for, but I guess there’s only so much the elves can do from the North Pole.
There were some pretty nice […]

December 4, 2006

The final BCS rankings came out last night and it seems that someone got robbed. Or not. I guess it depends on how you look at it.
Say what you will about Florida’s merit as the No. 2 team in the country and the BCS as the right system for determining that fact, but the system […]

If you are very quiet, you can still hear the sound lingering in the cold air above the Upper Great Lakes. “Boo!”

Good Lord, I don’t think I’ve ever heard the Lambeau faithful in such a deep throated roar of disapproval as they were at halftime yesterday. Of course they had good reason to express themselves that […]

December 2, 2006

Do you suppose Will Ferrell crapped his pants when Eric McNeal intercepted John David “Big” Booty’s pass, sealing UCLA’s 13-9 upset win over USC today? If anyone has video of that, please upload it to YouTube immediately.
So now that the Trojans have been eliminated from the mythical national championship picture, the debate has really started […]