2006 July » Brats & Beer

July 30, 2006

It sounds like newly-released safety Mark Roman might be headed for San Francisco. Niners site 49ersnews.com reports that SF head coach Mike Nolan appears interested in signing the disgruntled former Packer, but they’re still doing their “homework” as negotiations take place. I imagine that’s subtle code for “How little can we pay a guy who […]

July 28, 2006

The late report out of Brown County was that a deal between the Green Bay Packers and first-round draft pick A.J. Hawk is close to being done. Having both Vince Young and D’Brickashaw Ferguson ink their deals with the Jets and the Titans, respectively, set the stage for final negotiations, so I’m hopeful that sometime […]

July 25, 2006

Is it finally almost time for training camp to start? Don’t joke around about this because I’m practically dying over here. This summer has been long, hot, and excruciatingly boring due to the longness and hotness. I though early on that the Brewers might actually do something this year and I might be tempted to […]

July 20, 2006

Here’s the sort of thing that makes Packer Nation stand proud. Yesterday more than 20,000 people gathered in Green Bay for the annual shareholders meeting, filling the stands at Lambeau Field to hear reports on the team’s finances and the state of football operations. No other sports franchise in North America can boast such an […]

July 14, 2006

Thanks to Cheesehead Craig for posting on the Mascot Hall of Fame voting going on right now. Your very own Bucky Badger is currently leading the field of collegiate mascots with 405,000 votes over Michigan State’s Sparty and Big Red from Western Kentucky University, but he still needs your help. If you haven’t yet voted […]

A couple weeks ago Gil Brandt offered his ridiculously brief and shallow “60-second previews” of all 32 NFL teams. (And judging by the number of spelling and grammatical errors, it appears he spent all of a minute writing the piece.) He ranks Green Bay #22 and says:
The Packers have a new head coach in Mike […]

July 12, 2006

I happily admit that I’m not a fan of soccer and totally skipped out on the whole World Cup thing, but I was pretty impressed to read in the New York Times today about a Dairy State native [free registration] making good in the FA Premier League. Jay DeMerit, originally from Green Bay, is a […]

July 9, 2006

With the dog days of the off-season dragging on, CBS SportsLine columnist Pete Prisco made a desperate attempt to fill the void the other day with a piece on underrated and overrated NFL players. I suppose it’s a valid topic to debate, at least on par with mid-summer college football rankings and best Mel Kiper […]

July 2, 2006

I came across an interesting thread at Football Outsiders the other day discussing a column at SI.com by Mike Silver ranking the team owners in the NFL. (Yes, it is definitely the dog days of summer when making a list of billionaires passes as journalism.) To cut to the meat of the article, Patriots owner […]

Bucks Nation seems to be enjoying its Fourth of July holiday so far, following word that the team traded TJ Ford to Toronto for Charlie Villanueva. Cheesehead Craig at Oracle of Cheese hilariously likens the deal to getting a 20oz. T-Bone and $10 for a double cheeseburger, while Bucks Dairy offers Raptors fans a rather […]