Set all Packer flags to half staff today as we mourn the loss to the Chicago Bears today:
Category: Green Bay Packers
Packer Flag Protocol
I’ve got a nice 3′ x 5′ Packer flag to fly this year, but now that I’ve got it, I’m not sure the protocol. I mean, my first inclination is to fly it on game day, and then on the following day when the Packers win. But I’m not clear on the protocol.
Any readers with the formal Packer flag protocol are encouraged to contact me with details. This Packer flag is serious business, and I do not want to besmirch Green Bay fans around the country by disrespecting the banner they hold dearly.
Note: No known Chiefs fans or Rams fans need reply. I am onto your tricks.
Packerblogging
Live blogging the Packer game because I got nothing.
That’s not a fumble, that’s a lateral by other means.
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel Wants Packer Bloggers
The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel is looking for bloggers to cover the Green Bay Packers this year. Those bloggers selected get a free subscription the the Packers Insider, an extra supplement to the paper for which people actually pay extra, and a trip to Lambeau.
Entry details here.
Me, I’m not entering. Even though I listen to Weber and Dolan in the mornings, including the Green Bay Grapevine on Fridays, and I read the Journal-Sentinel religiously, and I plan my autumn around the weekends when I can watch the game on television, I cannot think of three things to say about training camp. As a matter of fact, most of my blog entries about the Packers taunt Pejman or Cagey as needed.
Conspiracy!
James Joyner has uncovered a conspiracy to keep Republicans home on November 2:
A 72-year streak links the victory or defeat of the Washington Redskins on the eve of election day with the presidential race. If the Redskins go down to defeat or tie, the sitting president?s party loses the White House.
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The Redskins? performance has aligned with the presidential outcome in the last 18 elections ? a probability of 1 in 263.5 million, according to Dave Dolan, an assistant professor of statistics at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.
Actually, Joyner only posted the story. My keen mind discovered the conspiracy:
I don’t know what to make of this, because the professor is an academic, so he probably wants the Democrats to win, and he’s from
Green Bay, so he probably wants the Green Bay Packers to win when they play the Redskins on October 31 (Schedule).
Go Packers, Go Pachyderms.
Thank you, that is all. See you in the voting booth on November 2.
Forget Steinberg
To arms, bloggers! We have a new Sun Times columnists to pillory!
Forget Neil Steinberg, who got into trouble for equating the POW/MIA flag with the Vietnam War (he apologized). Richard Roper earns today’s call to arms when he calls Brett Favre white trash.
This cannot stand!
Columnist Argues for a Classless Society
Bill Hobbs links to a column in the Philadelphia Daily News wherein the columnist executes a number of cheap shots on Brett Favre.
Sounds like Brett Favre’s a man to me. I’d like to see what sort of erroneous, idealized self-image the columnist has of himself to see how he reconciles his own perfection with the ability to make snarky comments about another man’s recently-deceased father.
Spoken like a man who has not yet lost his father.
Easy Transition
The Noggle household for the NFL playoffs:
Lamentations
Oh, man, now that the Packers choked up a 17 point lead to Kansas City, Cagey’s either going to be:
- Insufferable (which I would be were it the other way around), which I cannot stand the thought of, or
- A bigger man than me and not rub my face in the mess that Ahman Green left on the fifty yard line, which I cannot stand the thought of, either.
Deep, dark depression, excessive misery.
If it weren’t for bad luck, I’d have no luck at all.
Doom, despair and agony on me.
A Toast
To the Chicago Bears, for keeping up your end of a noble tradition and losing gracefully to the Packers.
You guys played your guts out. Unfortunately, you didn’t have many with which to start.
Sorry, Pejman, but it was foreordained.
Ah! Got the New Packer Pro Shop Catalog
I’ve received my Packers Pro Shop catalog in the mail today. Now I can get down to some serious home redecorating!
Because I want to be as serious of a fan as my homies in Wisconsin. Where everyone has at least one piece of furniture with the Packers logo on it.
Unfortunately, I couldn’t find any of the women’s lingerie that they have advertised in the catalog on the Web site, so I cannot show you the beautiful Green and Gold chemise that my beautiful wife will get for Christmas.