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June 29, 2006
posted under: Nick Barnett

Finally a reasonable voice speaks up in the strange story of Nick Barnett and FiveSix Ultra Lounge. For those of you who have not been following this saga, a quick recap: The Green Bay city council voted a few weeks back not to renew the liquor license for the FiveSix, owned by the Packers linebacker, due to noise and public safety concerns. But then earlier this week, the council did renew the license of Hip Cats, another tavern that has had similar disturbance issues. To make matters worse, Barnett was ticketed the other day for jaywalking while crossing the street with a local TV news crew, although none of the news people were cited.

Finally, though, it looks like Barnett might get a fair shake from the city. Mayor Jim Schmitt today asked the council to revisit the issue of the FiveSix and recommended they renew the license pending approval of a plan to solve the noise issues.

It must be strange to be Nick Barnett these days, to be scorned in the same city that heralded his arrival as a first round pick just a couple years ago. What did Barnett do to bring out the haters? Has he been kicking dogs on the sidewalk or knocking over little old ladies? So some of the patrons at the FiveSix are a little loud when the place closes, big deal. Every bar in Wisconsin has a few rowdies. (And some of those rowdies are probably on the city council.) And who hands out tickets for jaywalking? Seriously Green Bay, WTF?

UPDATE: And then some jackass goes and tags the side of the building with swastikas. Real classy. Way to show the love, Green Bay.