2008 January » Brats & Beer

January 30, 2008

All season long he’s kept his nose clean, kept his yap shut, and played lights-out football, but given the biggest stage in the world at the Super Bowl Randy Moss decided to unload on the Green Bay Packers. Asked by Tom Silverstein of the Journal Sentinel about his talks with the Packers last spring, the […]

January 29, 2008

There are a lot of things I miss about living in the Midwest. This weather report is not one of them.

It sounds like former Green Bay Packers head coach Mike Sherman is trying to put the band back together. Now coach at Texas A&M, he recently hired his old offensive coordinator Tom Rossley to be the quarterbacks coach and a senior assistant with the Aggies. I wonder what Ed Donatell is doing these […]

By way of Can’t Stop The Bleeding, here’s a story that will make you thankful that the Green Bay Packers are a community-owned team.
Seattle SuperSonics owner Clay Bennett the other night got heckled — actually, not even that — by a fan at KeyArena. Shortly afterwards, the fan, a season ticket holder named Sam Kidder, […]

January 28, 2008

People out there wondering what makes Green Bay Packers fans so great, just look at the response to today’s news that VP of Player Finance Andrew Brandt is leaving the team. He was a front office administrator who hardly ever got face time in the news, and yet everyone knows who he is and what […]

The Press-Gazette’s Rob Demovsky yesterday handed out the annual report card, grading the Green Bay Packers players and coaches for the 2007 season. Let’s just say he’s not a believer in the bell curve, but overall his remarks were pretty fair.
Top marks went to Brett Favre, Aaron Kampman and Nick Barnett (all A minuses), while […]

January 27, 2008

As if Wisconsinites didn’t have enough to feel glum about right now, yesterday was a bad day for the Dairyland.
First, the UW men’s basketball team fell to Purdue on the road 60-56 in a tight game that came right down to the final play. Trailing by two with 10 seconds to play, Michael Flowers drove […]

January 26, 2008

If you’ve recovered from last Sunday’s championship game and you’re ready to relive the 2007 season, SportsCenter on ESPN is running a feature Sunday on Wayne Scullino and the year he’s had since moving his family from Australia to Green Bay to follow the Packers. Judging from this post on his blog, it sounds like […]

January 25, 2008

This is the last week on the job for Bob Harlan. He’s been Packers chairman and CEO since 1989, almost 19 years on the job. That’s pretty amazing for anyone in any profession, but really amazing given the high-pressure demands of running an NFL franchise.
There aren’t many teams that can claim such long-lasting and stable […]

Despite the prescription medication, the post-playoff funk still lingers. I have avoided most things football related this week (doctor’s orders) but I couldn’t help but read the torrent of articles from journalists and bloggers questioning why the Packers lost the NFC Championship on Sunday night. So far, though, there doesn’t seem to be a clear […]