2007 May » Brats & Beer

May 25, 2007

It’s not like we need any empirical evidence that former Vikings washout Sean Salisbury is the biggest blowhard on ESPN, but I just happened to overhear this little exchange on SportsCenter.
The host/anchor asked John Clayton, “What’s the biggest question in your mind heading into mini camps?” to which the diminutive analyst answered he thought the […]

May 24, 2007

That’s done as in finished, at and end, over and out. Keyshawn is retiring from the NFL and Robert Ferguson lives to see another day.
But that’s okay because I’ve changed my mind about the veteran wide receiver: Clearly he has a selfish, “there’s no team in I” attitude that would have been a cancer in […]

May 22, 2007

Okay, I know I said I wasn’t going to write anything else about the NFL Draft, but this is more about the Draft as an institution, the Draft as entertainment, the Draft as a product.
I made the mistake yesterday of reading Peter King’s “Monday Morning Quarterback” column (shame on me) which was 75% slobbering praise […]

The controversy surrounding A.J. Hawk’s wedding and the subsequent release of scandalous pictures from the festivities is threatening to take on a life of its own.
Probably stung by Hawk’s negative review of her services and comments that the pictures have become “an issue,” Amy Harcar, the photographer in question, is taking her side of the […]

Honestly I’m as tired of rehashing the now month-old NFL Draft as anyone, but a friend pointed me to an interesting story concerning the Packers first-round pick, Justin Harrell, and the Denver Broncos.
According to the story on the Broncos site (by way of the AOL FanHouse), Denver was focused on three players in the first […]

Last week the blogosphere (including your’s truely) went a little nuts linking to and posting pictures from A.J. Hawk’s wedding gallery posted on the Harcar Photography web site. Well, it seems that Hawk was not amused. He told PackersNews.com that the photos were posted on the photographer’s web site without permission and added, “Don’t use […]

May 17, 2007

Well it looks like Brett Favre will be attending this weekend’s mini camp after all. According to an article at Packersnews.com, Favre’s agent Bus Cook told ESPN that the three-time MVP “got to thinking about it and, again, he felt that getting to minicamp was just the right thing to do.” So there’ll be […]

May 16, 2007

Maybe we should all just a take a big timeout from all the bickering and teeth-knashing over Brett Favre and his issues with Teddy Thompson. Yes, let’s instead celebrate something fun and wonderful, like the joyous union of two people in matrimony. Of course I’m talking about A.J. Hawk’s marriage to Laura Quinn.
The fantastic The […]

May 15, 2007

I just wanted to send out a big thank you to everyone involved in the Brett Favre – Ted Thompson affair for making my life as a Green Bay Packer fan so much better. We’ll probably never know the “truth” about what went down; who called who and what was said has been lost to […]

May 14, 2007

By now you’ve all probably heard or read the rumor that Brett Favre asked the Packers to be traded after the Randy Moss deal fell apart. The amazing part of the story, to me anyway, is that it was FOX Sports and not ESPN that got the scoop on this one. Was Chris Mortensen taking […]