2007 August » Brats & Beer

August 31, 2007

I love days were I get in three posts, and what better way to end it than with something about the Wisconsin Badgers? UW opens its 2007 campaign tomorrow at Camp Randall against Washington State and I feel pretty confident they’ll get off to a very good start.
The Badgers are looking to get some respect […]

There’s a school of thought out there that says the pre-season is a worthless waste of time and talent, and I’m starting to move closer to that line of thinking after Noah Herron suffered a knee injury in last night’s 30-14 loss to the Titans. That brings the Packers down to two healthy backs. Assuming […]

What in the name of Johnny Majors is going on out there? Here I was all prepared to write some beautiful prose about the glorious debut of the Gene Chizik era at Iowa State and then the Cyclones had to go and lose . . . to Kent State. Now, the Golden Flashes might be […]

August 30, 2007

Wisconsin native and New York artist, Tim Laun is also a Packer fan. No, make that a super fan.
Laun has transformed his passion for the Packers and for art — big art — into a 36-foot long showpiece called “Tim Laun: Sunday, September 20, 1992,” an abstract piece inspired by the day that Brett Favre […]

August 29, 2007

And apparently this year’s Vikings squad isn’t.
According to a story in today’s Press-Gazette, the Lavender and Lace has thousands of unsold tickets and are facing the possibility of a TV blackout for the first time in a decade. The team has filled just 56,000 seats for the season opener against the Atlanta Falcons, leaving them […]

August 25, 2007

A fierce opponent of making any definitive statements, Ted Thompson said at a press conference he thought Donald Driver would be healthy again to play in the season opener against the Philadelphia Eagles, though he stopped short of making any guarantees. “Thats’s what we think will probably happen, but you never know. But that’s what […]

The Packers cut almost a dozen players from the roster yesterday in advance of Tuesday’s deadline, including backup quarterback Ingle Martin. The second-year pro and fifth-round draft pick enjoyed cult popularity status in Packers Nation because of his dual threat capability at QB and as a punter. Unfortunately he never panned out as either a […]

How are blogs and bloggers different from the mainstream media and professional journalists? Paychecks and access come to mind, but in one aspect they are exactly the same: we all love free publicity. With that I give a shout out to the Bleacher Bloggers who quoted your’s truly in an NFC North preview during their […]

August 23, 2007

Watching Green Bay fall to Jacksonville 21-13 in their third pre-season game leaves me wondering, “Were the Seahawks really that bad, or did the Packers take a big step backwards?” I didn’t think the Green & Gold would have a repeat performance of their huge win over Seattle but this was a pretty disappointing game […]

We are just hours away from the third pre-season game and thank the stars this one is on national television so I finally get to see all these players in action. I’ll be studying hard to learn the new guys by jersey number so when the regular season starts I can yell the right name […]