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August 30, 2008

Here’s one of those moments that makes you very happy the Green Bay Packers franchise is a publicly-owned non-profit corporation. Real estate developer Ed Roski Jr. is in the market for an NFL team to take up residence in a new stadium he is planning to build in City of Industry outside Los Angeles. According […]

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 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 […]

December 18, 2007

Big props to the Philadelphia Eagles for playing tough defense all afternoon and scoring just enough to hang a second loss on the Cowboys. Now we just need the Redskins to play for pride in the final weekend of football and Green Bay could be hosting throughout the playoffs.

My brother whipped up this funny picture […]

November 26, 2007

With their win over the Lions on Turkey Day, the Green Bay Packers all but clinched their first division title since 2004, but dang it all if those other three teams in the NFC Norris aren’t still in the hunt for a playoff spot.
Detroit, despite a three-game losing streak, is still 6-5 and a leading […]

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 […]

March 28, 2007

Which NFL team has the greatest fan base in the league? Considering the Packers have missed the playoffs for two years in a row, suffered two shutout losses at home last year, and have done little in the free agent market under the watch of general manager Ted Thompson, and yet the team continues to […]

February 9, 2007

If it’s possible to induce a coma by overeating, I’m pretty sure that during the Super Bowl I came about as close as one dare before actually requiring hospitalization. I seriously need to check out hypno-therapy to curtail my piggish behavior on game days, I think.
So how about those stupid Bears, huh? Not only did […]

July 2, 2006

I came across an interesting thread at Football Outsiders the other day discussing a column at SI.com by Mike Silver ranking the team owners in the NFL. (Yes, it is definitely the dog days of summer when making a list of billionaires passes as journalism.) To cut to the meat of the article, Patriots owner […]

June 19, 2006

The Green Bay Packers reported over the weekend that the team’s revenue rose to $208 million, the seventh-best in the NFL. That might seem like little consolation for fans still smarting from the dismal 4-12 season last year, but it is great news that the league’s smallest-market team can compete so well financially. Like it […]