January 15, 2006 UW head coach Bret Bielema filled another slot on his staff today, hiring Mike Hankwitz to be defensive coordinator alongside Dave Doeren. Hankwitz lead the defense at the University of Colorado the past two seasons and filled in as interim head coach for the Buffalos in their Champs Sports Bowl appearance. He […]
July 9, 2008 posted under: Packer fans Right about the time this site went on semi-voluntary sabatical, I got an e-mail from JT in Houston and never really replied, so let me send out a public hello to all the Packer fans in Houston. No offense, but I can’t think of a worse place to […]
August 31, 2008 posted under: Ted Thompson However much Ari Fleischer’s retainer fee is, it’s too much for the Packers to be paying at least as far as Ted Thompson’s press conferences are concerned: The man can be pretty good on his own. There were two interesting exchanges with reporters today, the first began with […]
October 9, 2007 In our continuing effort to keep tabs on former Wisconsin players now in the NFL, we catch up with Ron Dayne who has been carrying the load down in Houston while Ahman Green nurses a knee injury. This week against Miami, The Great Dayne racked up 40 yards on 16 carries and […]
August 16, 2008 posted under: Packers, Pre-season In addition to these 10 things YOU REALLY, REALLY NEED TO WATCH FOR during tonight’s pre-season game between Green Bay and San Francisco, the National Football Post has five more things YOU HAD BETTER WATCH FOR BECAUSE THERE WILL BE A QUIZ AFTERWARDS. Actually, Michael Lombardi has come […]
January 20, 2008 The game plans are set. The players are ready. Gameday is here. There’s really not much left to be said, except “Go, you Packers! Go!” In Green Bay this morning it is -13 degrees — welcome to Wisconsin, Eli Manning. By kickoff the temperature is still expected to be around 0 degrees […]
April 18, 2008 posted under: Brett Favre If I would have waited a few hours to publish my last post, I could have saved myself the trouble of speculating on which game the Packers would choose to retire Brett Favre’s jersey number. The team announced yesterday it plans to enshrine #4 on the facade of […]
September 4, 2008 posted under: Blogs, ESPN It looks like we Packers bloggers dominate the NFC North blogosphere. In a follow up post to his call for suggested links to fan sites, ESPN’s Kevin Seifert writes: We have a good working list of fan blogs dedicated to the Packers (and then some), the Bears and […]
August 7, 2007 Does Peter King have a man-crush on a Packer not named Favre? Last week in his Postcards from the Edge of the Banquet Table, he took time to mention how impressed he was with Johnny Jolly and now today he’s advising the Indianapolis Colts to take a long look at our defensive […]
August 31, 2008 posted under: Blogs, Railbird Central Getting rid of both Herron and Morency? That gives us a VERY young backfield. Combine that with the age of all of our QB’s and we’ve got a group of kids who have no idea who the ThunderCats are. Hat’s off to Railbird Central for illustrating the […]
February 16, 2008 Awards season is upon us, and I’m not talking about last week’s Grammys or the upcoming Oscars. The good folks at Cheesehead TV are handing out awards for the best Packer bloggers and I am honored, humbled, and somewhat astonished to say that this here Brats & Beer site is among the […]
September 25, 2008 posted under: Beer, Pabst Blue Ribbon No, I’m not posting about lowlifes hanging around school playgrounds pushing cans of suds on teenagers, but rather a new bicycle that I’m sure the packergeeks might be excited to hear about. Traitor Cycles of Washington introduced its latest models at Interbike, including a limited edition […]
April 27, 2008 posted under: Badgers in the NFL, NFL Draft Four former Badgers football players made their way onto NFL teams through this weekend’s draft, led by corner Jack Ikegwuonu who went in the fourth round to the Eagles. Given Ike’s blown out knee and, um, methods of procuring a video game, I was […]
September 9, 2007 Sweet sons of Donnie Duncan, what is happening to the Iowa State Cyclones? The Gene Chizik era is starting to look less like a revival and more like a Jim Walden-inspired nightmare. The Clones got taken to woodshed by Northern Iowa last night 24-13; the defense got chewed up by UNI quarterback […]
