2007 October » Brats & Beer

October 9, 2007

In our continuing effort to keep tabs on former Wisconsin players now in the NFL, we catch up with Ron Dayne who has been carrying the load down in Houston while Ahman Green nurses a knee injury. This week against Miami, The Great Dayne racked up 40 yards on 16 carries and scored his first […]

It’s been a couple days now since the Sunday night debacle, I’ve calmed down a little bit, and Mrs. BratsNBeerGuy has called off the suicide watch. (Apologies, by the way, for my “bitter haiku” from the other night.) I’ve had a chance to put the loss into perspective, and I’m feeling better about everything. Though […]

October 7, 2007

F*cking turnovers. F*cking penalties. F*cking Bears.

October 6, 2007

Some people say you always remember your first time; they obviously were not talking about losing football games because I would rather just forget about the Badgers first loss of the season. Wisconsin got totally manhandled by Illinois today in a 31-26 loss that was more lopsided than the score would indicate.
All season the Badgers […]

October 4, 2007

The football gods sure cooked up a good one this weekend, with the undefeated Wisconsin Badgers traveling to Champaign to play Illinois and the Chicago Bears coming to Lambeau Field to face the undefeated Green Bay Packers. It’s going to be a real battle royal between the Land of Lincoln and the Dairyland; we should […]

October 2, 2007

Being undefeated through the first quarter of the season (who’da thunk it?) you might think the Packers deserve an A+ grade, but like coach McCarthy says this is still a young team that’s improving. And there are some obvious areas they need to improve if Green Bay really is going to challenge for a playoff […]

October 1, 2007

This week’s roundup of Badgers playing in the NFL starts with first round draft pick Joe Thomas, who is helping to put winning football back on the menu in Cleveland. The Browns on Sunday defeated the Baltimore Ravens 27-13 to advance to 2-2 on the season, and a lot of the credit goes to Thomas […]