2008 February » Brats & Beer

February 20, 2008

The past few weeks of relative calm around the NFL is about to be shattered by the start of the free agent signing period on Thursday. Let the bidding wars begin. It won’t mean much hoopla around Packer Nation, though, not with Ted Thompson at the helm; TT will be content to sit back and […]

February 19, 2008

I’ve been reading the posts on the Journal Sentinel’s Badger Blog about Wisconsin fifth-year senior linebacker James Kamoku and his family, who have been going through a pretty rough time lately. His mother cannot work because of back problems, his grandmother suffered a heart attack recently, and he has an uncle on disability. Worst of […]

I’m not sure who YouTube user rilamann is beyond the fact that he/she is a Packers fan from Milwaukee and a collector of rare TV footage, but the world is a better place for what he/she is doing. rilamann posted the NBC highlights show from 1992 featuring Brett Favre being interviewed by Bob Costas, OJ Simpson […]

February 16, 2008

Awards season is upon us, and I’m not talking about last week’s Grammys or the upcoming Oscars. The good folks at Cheesehead TV are handing out awards for the best Packer bloggers and I am honored, humbled, and somewhat astonished to say that this here Brats & Beer site is among the four nominees.
My initial […]

February 15, 2008

The winter hours creep by so slowly when there’s no football to obsess about. Has it really been a week since the last time I wrote anything on this blog? Not wanting it to look completely dormant I suppose I should post something here, so let’s review the last week’s news, shall we? (Yes, we […]

February 7, 2008

In a simpler time long ago, Brett Favre was just a snot-nosed kid out of Southern Mississippi who happened to complete a game-winning touchdown against the Bengals after Don Majkowski got injured and couldn’t return. Then he got to talk to Bob Costas co-hosts Buddy Ryan and OJ Simpson on NBC’s NFL Live after the […]

February 6, 2008

Packer Nation was all abuzz last week after the Journal Sentinel ran an article in which Ron Wolf blasted Mike Holmgren for blowing it in Super Bowl XXXII. Wolf called the Packers former head coach “pig-headed” and blamed the loss to the Broncos on Holmgren’s refusal to make adjustments during the game.
Now a few days […]

February 5, 2008

After going back and forth over the weekend I ended up finally watching the Super Bowl. It was pretty tough during the first quarter because all I could think about was how the Packers should have been there in their white road jerseys instead of the Giants, but it ended up being a pretty decent […]

February 1, 2008

Bill Michaels posted this image of Brett Favre’s pass that was intercepted in overtime in the NFC Championship on his SportsBubbler blog. (Thanks to WSB for the link.)
I wasn’t going to post about it because it made me kind of depressed and I didn’t really have anything to say about it — I don’t wear […]