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November 20, 2007

We’re just a couple days away now from Thanksgiving, the second greatest holiday on the entire calendar. It’s a whole day devoted to festive overeating and football, only Christmas can top it.
This year, unfortunately, one of those football games involves the Green Bay Packers playing in Detroit, which has given me indigestion since the start […]

November 15, 2007

Alright, maybe the Carolina Panthers are looking more like little kittens this season and maybe Green Bay’s match-up this week isn’t the most exciting one on the schedule, but it could be argued this is the biggest trap game of the year so far.
The Panthers come into Lambeau Field with a three-game losing streak, but […]

November 10, 2007

I know very little about quarterback Koy Detmer, who was signed this week by the Vikings to back up Brooks Bollinger. I know he has a brother Ty. I know he played for the Eagles and I think I remember he didn’t look horrible in a couple starts when McNabb was hurt (or was that […]

November 7, 2007

Just a week after setting the NFL single game rushing record, Adrian Peterson will be playing his first game at (cue John Facenda) historic Lambeau Field. The 72,000 Green & Gold fans should be in full throat Sunday afternoon, waving their G-Force towels in the air; I hope it scares the Purple Bejebus right out […]

November 2, 2007

The midpoint of the season is here and the Green Bay Packers are looking to go to 7-1 with a road win over the Chiefs this Sunday. Am I freakin’ dreaming here or what?
This has certainly been one of the most unbelievable Packer seasons that I can remember. Good things were in the offing at […]

October 23, 2007

The bye week is over (it just wasn’t a Sunday without the Green & Gold playing) and we can finally get back to watching and talking Green Bay football. The Packers travel to Denver for a Monday night game this week, and it should be a another big test for this young team.
At the start […]

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 […]

September 25, 2007

The constant theme running through commentary and criticism before and after Green Bay’s huge win Sunday over the Chargers has been laser focused on the state of the running game, specifically the apparent lack of one. Over the past few months I have been at or near the front of that line of people wanting […]

December 31, 2006

According to the Wikipedia, bears evolved from a dog-sized raccoon-like creature called Cephalogale and are part of the same family of mammals as weasles. I believe that goes for Bears fans as well.
So here it is, the last day of 2006 and the end of the regular season. There is a part of me that […]

November 18, 2006

A lot of columnists and commentators out there are sighting up this week’s game between the Packers and Patriots as a duel between Brett Favre and Tom Brady, the old gunslinger vs. the new, and that’s probably not a bad lens through which to view this contest. Unfortunately for them it might not be much […]