2007 August » Brats & Beer

August 7, 2007

Does Peter King have a man-crush on a Packer not named Favre? Last week in his Postcards from the Edge of the Banquet Table, he took time to mention how impressed he was with Johnny Jolly and now today he’s advising the Indianapolis Colts to take a long look at our defensive tackle as a […]

It’s really too bad that A. J. Hawk is related to such a mook like Brady Quinn; then again I guess it’s preferable to A. J. Hawk being a mook like his brother-in-law.
It’s amazing to me the he held out for this long on a team and a fan base that so desperatly needs him […]

August 6, 2007

Packers general manager Ted Thompson decided to play Santa Claus a little early this year by signing Donald Driver to a new contract extension. According to the Journal Sentinel, the new deal adds about $11 million to Driver’s existing contract, most of which will come in the extra year added to the agreement. It does […]

August 5, 2007

The Packers held their annual Family Night scrimmage yesterday at Lambeau Field and once again sold out the joint: More than 59,300 fans paid $8 to see the team run through their paces in live tackling drills.
I’m happy to say the reports from the papers were generally positive and upbeat. During two regular game situation […]

August 4, 2007

In his quest to see each and every Starbucks location in this country, Peter King is once again traveling the highways and byways to visit all the NFL teams’ training camps this Fall, filing his reports to SI.com under the title “Postcards from Camp.” Yesterday he was in Green Bay, so what does the […]

August 3, 2007

The 2007 USA TODAY coaches pre-season poll came out today, so I guess that means college football is really underway now. Low and behold the Wisconsin Badgers got a little love from the pollsters and placed seventh in the rankings, behind Michigan but ahead of Ohio State. Bring on the haters and the non-believers […]

August 2, 2007

It looks like Hollywood and the NFL think there’s box office gold in the Green & Gold. There’s post at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel site today about a movie that’s in the works about coach Vince Lombardi and his 1967 championship Green Bay Packers. The script takes place during the week before 1967 NFL championship […]

August 1, 2007

Not a whole lot of news coming out of Green Bay today since coach Mike McCarthy decided to give the team the day off. (Day off from practice? I don’t think coach Lombardi would have approved.) But that doesn’t mean we can’t talk a little bit about the Packers.
So far training camp has been a […]

If the early reports from the newspapers are to be believed, it appears that Packers wide receiver James Jones is surpassing both first-round pick Justin Harrell and running back Brandon Jackson to be at the head of the 2007 rookie class.
Going into training camp I think we all thought that the third-round pick out of […]