Hard to believe it’s been ten seasons since gas was poured on an NFC North rivalry which for the most part hadn’t existed. Before purple Crush there was Hatorade and waffles. Before that? I guess I can’t say. Each year, the Vikings game at Lambeau is my least favorite game; the purple Favre jerseys and…
This past week versus the Vikings was one of two regular season games of which I don’t have tickets. Having no tailgate prep work Saturday, I took a trip in the opposite direction to my hometown of Highland, Wisconsin. Where for homecoming, at the last minute, we threw together a 20th class reunion. A graduating class…
As time expired ending the first half of Sunday Night Football, my husband turned my way and asked me to check the internet for an update on Rodgers. “I’m not going on the internet right now,” I said. To my right sat two middle-aged Bears fans who had driven up from Chicago. It was their…
Surveying the North: This is probably one of the earliest futures columns that has surfaced, but with the draft still, a month away, and the first wave of free agency completed, I wanted to take a look at how the NFC North is shaping up after almost four weeks into the new NFL calendar year.…
The Minnesota Vikings were destroyed this past weekend in Philadelphia vs. the Eagles. This, along with the Patriots making their 76th Super Bowl appearance during the Brady/Belichick era, were the biggest takeaways from the weekend. Yet, as badly as the Vikings were destroyed, it can be argued they weren’t destroyed as badly as any semblance…
Here’s where we’re at in the last few days: Davante Adams: PAID Corey Linsley: PAID Dom Capers: Gone/Put to pasture/Fired Scott McCurley: Fired Mike Trgovac: Fired Edgar Bennett: Fired Alex Van Pelt: Fired Ted Thompson: reassigned a new position taking care of the roach problem The theme song of the offseason so far has…
The 2010 championship season for the Green Bay Packers is another year behind us. Its sight disappeared in the proverbial rearview mirror years ago. The 2017 season was easily the biggest debacle of the past decade. That snap of Aaron Rodgers’s clavicle will have effects for years to come. The fundamental flaws of the organization…