February 9, 2006 posted under: Badgers basketball Wisconsin rebounded from their slump finally, tagging #21 Indiana with a 72-54 beat down. Okay, the Hoosiers were very helpful shooting just 26% from the field, but I thought UW looked the best they have in a while tonight. They were patient with the ball, worked it inside, […]
August 12, 2006 posted under: Brett Favre, Dr. Z, Peyton Manning It turns out that Sports Illustrated columnist Paul Zimmerman has pretty thin skin. In his piece yesterday, the esteemed Dr. Z opened his mailbag to find some letter bombs from Packer fans steamed about his hatchet job on Brett Favre last week. But the […]
March 12, 2006 posted under: Badgers basketball, Iowa State basketball, Marquette, NCAA tournament, UW-Milwaukee Well, the conference tournaments were pretty disappointing but now the NCAA tourney is set to begin. Wisconsin, which got booted in the quarterfinals after losing to Indiana 61-56, made the #9 seed in the Minneapolis bracket. They play on Friday against […]
April 30, 2006 posted under: AJ Hawk, Greg Jennings, NFL Draft, Packers, Ted Thompson Two days and 255 picks later, the 2006 NFL Draft is finally over, so how did the Packers do? Pretty well, I’d say. There were no obvious goofs or gaffes we’ll be smarting from in the next few months, and we […]
September 25, 2006 posted under: Lions, Packers, Post-game There was no doubt a lot of rejoicing across Packer Nation yesterday following Green Bay’s 31-24 win over the Lions, the team’s first victory of the 2006 season, but it took me several minutes to recover from how the game ended before I could get to the […]
November 5, 2006 posted under: Badgers football Now that was one hell of a football game, with two tough defenses, lots of hard running, and very little scoring. It might have been the most perfect Big 10 football played this season. Oh, and the Badgers won. Yea! Wisconsin’s 13-3 victory over Penn State was a […]
February 11, 2006 posted under: Casey FitzRandolph, Catherine Raney, Chris Witty, Kip Carpenter, Maureen Brunt, Molly Engstrom, Olympics Sat down last night to watch the opening ceremonies of the Olympics. Yes, I know it’s cornball and overblown, but it is nice to see, even in this day when there’s so much big money involved, that […]
May 8, 2007 posted under: Brett Favre If you’ve wondered what 17 years playing in the NFL can get you, take a gander at this shot of Brett Favre’s palatial estate down in Mississippi. The BeerKid posted this along with another view of the Favre estate at Packer Palace. He says this little bungalow is […]
July 13, 2007 posted under: Packers, training camp It’s been a nice off-season break from posting/bitching/fretting about the Packers but training camp is ready to start in about two weeks, so I figure I better shake the dust off this blog and see if it still works. While we’re waiting for some actual news from […]
November 28, 2006 posted under: Packers, Post-game, Seahawks If anyone happened to get the license plate number of the truck that ran over the Packers last night, please contact the Green Bay defense so they can call their insurance company. Well, it was another Monday night and another embarrassing performance by the Green & Gold, […]
July 20, 2006 posted under: Packers, shareholders Here’s the sort of thing that makes Packer Nation stand proud. Yesterday more than 20,000 people gathered in Green Bay for the annual shareholders meeting, filling the stands at Lambeau Field to hear reports on the team’s finances and the state of football operations. No other sports franchise […]
September 15, 2006 posted under: Packers, Pre-game, Saints It’s time finally to stop all this grousing about last week’s shellacking at the hands of the Bears and look instead to the future, to getting this Packer train back on the tracks and rolling forward instead of backwards. Thank goodness (maybe) Green Bay has New Orleans […]
July 14, 2007 posted under: Johnsonville sausage Coming out of my off-season hiatus and catching up on some reading, I was stunned to learn that the founder of Johnsonville Sausage passed away a couple weeks ago. (Thanks to the Oracle of Cheese for posting on this news.) Ralph Strayer was 92 when he died at […]
November 8, 2006 posted under: Dan McCarney, Iowa State football Thank goodness the election is finally over. I know that our representative democracy is one of the things that makes this country great and special in the world, but I could really do without the barrage of inane political commercials. And don’t even get me […]
