2006 November » Brats & Beer

November 7, 2006

It was a cruel turn of events for Packer fans this weekend, seeing the Green & Gold take a giant step backwards in their loss to the Bills. Last week they looked like a real, live professional football team and Sunday it seemed like they had been replaced by the Keystone Cops. I particularly […]

November 5, 2006

Thank goodness for beer and the love of a good woman because right now those are the only things keeping the barrel of a gun our of my mouth. Christ Almighty, it’s bad enough when the Packers lose to another team, but why do they have to beat themselves?
Today was the absolute worst because there […]

Now that was one hell of a football game, with two tough defenses, lots of hard running, and very little scoring. It might have been the most perfect Big 10 football played this season. Oh, and the Badgers won. Yea!
Wisconsin’s 13-3 victory over Penn State was a perfect way to punctuate this season and head […]

GBFan at The Wisconsin Sports Bar posted yesterday a request for help trying to locate Packer bars and Badger bars outside the state of Wisconsin. There are a lot of us ex-pat Midwesterners living in far flung corners of the country where the alternatives for watching the games are usually pretty grim. Either you brave […]

November 3, 2006

The Wisconsin men’s basketball squad opens their 2006-07 campaign with a pre-season game against the Blue Devils of UW-Stout tonight. I am very impressed that the pre-season coaches poll has the Badgers ranked No. 9, while CBS Sportsline ranks them fourth behind Florida, Kansas, and North Carolina. Of course that sets the bar pretty high, […]

The La Crosse Tribune has a story today about former Packer quarterback Craig Nall, and it seems he’s not very happy with his situation in Buffalo.
While the money is nice, and Nall doesn�t regret his decision to leave the Green Bay Packers after four years behind Brett Favre, he�s struggling with the reality that, once […]

November 2, 2006

Our latest shipment of summer sausage arrived this week from Kewaskum Frozen Foods, and it should be enough to last us through most of the remaining football season. Man, I loves me some summer sausage.
There are more than a few benefits to living in central Texas, namely the lack of winter; the whole place might […]

First the Packers backfield gets depleted by injuries, now it looks like Charles Woodson will be sitting out of this week’s game against the Bills. The football gods are sure being fickle about shining good fortune on Green Bay.
Woodson is listed as doubful due to a leg injury he sustained against the Cardinals, which might […]

November 1, 2006

I was a little surprised, though not shocked, by the treatment of the Packers this week in the mainstream sports entertainment media. There was some comedy made of old man Brett Favre’s scramble for a touchdown and then his Lambeau Leap, all well and good, but mostly Green Bay’s victory was cited as evidence that […]