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It’s the time of year when, for those of us whose teams aren’t in the Super Bowl, there’s not much to talk about besides the draft and retention of free agents. (Well, and the Pro Bowl, I guess, but if I want to see Aaron Rodgers piling up yards against a defense that neither tackles nor pass rushes, I’ll rewatch the Lions games. Zing! Heh. Detroit sucks.)

I’m just a touch mystified by what seem to be the Packers’ priorities in dealing with its crop of free agents. I’m not going to get into the whole issue of what happens in the event there’s no new collective-bargaining agreement because, well, I don’t entirely understand it, but Ted Thompson et al have given some pretty clear indications of whom they consider most important to keep and who’s disposable. continue »

Can we all agree that the only genuinely offensive aspects to this Super Bowl commercial for a gay dating website are that 1)the Vikings fan is vaguely good-looking, while the Packer fan is a bald schlub, and 2)the Viking fan wears the jersey of the great Adrian Peterson while the Packer guy represents perennial disappointment A.J. Hawk? Just wrong.

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Yeah, I know I said I wouldn’t mind seeing Brett Favre close out his career with another Super Bowl win, even if it had to be in purple. But, man, this was even more satisfying. For the Vikings and their fans, who thought they were such geniuses all season long, to finally get a taste of why, just maybe, putting the ball in Favre’s hands at the critical moment isn’t always a good thing…very nice.

Here’s my post-game chat with Milwaukee native and Packer fan extraordinaire Ben Perlstein, whose native hatred of all things Viking was only sharpened by the years he spent living in Minneapolis. (You may remember him from this little outing.)

me: so wonderful

ben: wasn’t that great?

me: so satisfying

ben: i was hoping the vikings season would end just like that.
and my wishes came true

me: and that, ladies and gentlemen, is why you don’t sell out your future for one shot at a super bowl with Brett Favre under center continue »

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I know it makes me a bad Packer fan. I know it puts me in a small minority consisting, as far as I can tell, mostly of women who can’t bear to root against their crush. But part of me still wants to see Brett Favre and the Vikings beat the Saints in the NFC championship game today and roll on to the Super Bowl. Who’s with me?

Or who’s with that part of me, anyway? Because it’s definitely only part. There’s another part, a big one, that would find nothing more satisfying than to watch Favre have one of his only-too-familiar postseason meltdowns and throw three or four picks en route to a humiliating loss continue »

…please, please, PLEASE let the Bears hire Mike Tice as their new offensive coordinator. C’mon, you owe us one after the way that Cardinals game ended. You know you do. Bring the worst head coach the NFC North has seen in 20 years to Chicago and we’ll call it even.

Yours truly,

Packer Fans Everywhere