On, you Green and Gold, to glory.  Win this game the same old story.  Fight, you Packers!  Fight, and bring the bacon home to Old Green Bay!  -Eric Karll

The Pack is back!  Last week, Aaron Rodgers passed for three touchdowns in the Packers’ win in Atlanta.  Last week, Aaron Rodgers ran for one more in the Packers’ win in Atlanta.  Last season, he passed for four touchdowns and ran for another in the 51-45 playoff loss at Arizona.  You know what that makes boys and girls?  Huh?  Do ya.  That makes Aaron Rodgers the first player in NFL history to throw at least three touchdown passes and to run for a touchdown in each of two different postseason games.  That’s what that makes.  I’ll tell you something else.  I’ll tell you Rodgers also completed 31 of his 36 passes at Atlanta.  I’ll tell you that gives him a completion rate of 86.1 percent.  I’ll tell you that’s the highest completion percentage in NFL postseason history for a player who had at least 30 completions in a game. I’ll tell you Aaron Rodgers is playing the best quarterback in these here playoffs                Read More »

Round two, I’m down to, do, what it takes to make you understand I’m the Candyman and I melt in your mouth, not in your hands.  -Candyman

Ok, here we go!  The NFL Playoffs.  The NFL hip-hip-hoorayoffs.  The judgement dayoffs.  Win or go home!  Who lives to play another week?  Who goes home?  Like Southside Johnny always says, “Oh, I know that it’s getting late, but I don’t want to go home.  I’m in no hurry, baby, time can wait. ‘Cause I don’t want to go home.”  Lets have a look-see at who’s who, shall we?  Sure we shall!             Read More »

I said you talk about this, and you talk about that.  When the cat took your tongue, I say you took it right back.  Your mouth is so big, one bite would kill a Big Mac.  -Run DMC

Public Service Announcement:  Ok, here we go!  Whatever happened to what happens in the locker room, stays in the locker room?  Say what you want about Bill Belichick, but his philosophy on what is to be said and more importantly, not to be said is the model all should follow.  He demands that his players be as bland as he is in interview sessions. Anyone, and I mean anyone, who steps out of line can expect repercussions.  This NFL season, it seems there are more than a few folks speaking out of turn.  More than a few folks who should have expected repercussions.          Read More »

Public Service Announcement:  Ok, here we go!  Yesterday, Andy Murray beat Juan Martin Del Potro at the ATP World Tour Finals in London.  Hooray Andy Murray!  But yesterday, something else also happened.  Yesterday, the rap song above surfaced.  On the track Autograph, about the attention sports stars get from autograph hunters, the tennis world No 4 raps in his monotone voice: “During Wimbledon it really gets crazy.  My hand cramps up and my mind gets hazy.”  That got me to thinking.  Thinking, what are the best athlete singing performances of all time?  Brilliant, right?  I thought so.  So lets do this.  Like we always knew this.  Like Carl Lewis.  The best athlete singing performances of all time:                    

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I guess I’ll die another day.  I think I’ll find another way.  There’s so much more to know.  I guess I’ll die another day.   -Madonna

Public Service Announcement:  Ok, here we go!  What’s crack-a-lacking sports fans?  Week eleven, over and done with.  Week eleven, so much fun with.  Week eleven, all that and a hamburger bun with.  Like my man man Tom Landry always says, “Football is an incredible game.  Sometimes it’s so incredible, it’s unbelievable.”  Let’s see what was  so incredible about it.  Let’s see what was so incredible it was unbelievable about it.   Shall we?  Sure we shall.       Read More »

It’s the same old story.  Same old song and dance, my friend.  -Aerosmith

Public Service Announcement:  Ok, here we go!  Jay cutler was bad last night.  Real bad last night.  Historically bad last night.  Jay Cutler passed for 307 yards.  All well and good.  But he threw five interceptions.  But the Bears were held without a touchdown.  Told ya he was bad.  Just so you know, that makes Cutler the first player in NFL history to pass for 300 yards in a game while being intercepted at least five times and seeing his team held without a touchdown.  That’s an NFL first he can’t be proud of.  As bad as he was, Bears fans should be used to it.       Read More »

And the battle’s just begun, there’s many lost, but tell me who has won.  The trench is dug within our hearts, and mothers, children, brothers, sisters torn apart.  Sunday, bloody Sunday.  -U2

Public Service Announcement:  Ok, here we go!  Like my main man Dan Birdell always says, “You have to play this game like somebody just hit your mother with a two-by-four.”  The Bears and Packers having been playing like that for years.  Years of tears.  As rivalries go, these cats are far from wet behind the ears.  There was Dickey to Lofton followed by Marcol.  There was Charles Martin’s hit list.  There was the Instant Replay Game.  There was Brett Favre gimping around on a sprained ankle throwing for 336 yards and five TDs.  The blocked field goal by defensive tackle Bryan Robinson.  Mason Crosbys kick blocked by Alex Brown.  Devin Hester, the very bester.  All of it.  Tonight, expect more of the same.  Tonight, expect the Black and Blue Dvision to live up to its name.  Smashmouth football.  Old time football.  Eddie Shore football.  I know, I know but you know what I mean.  I mean get your popcorn ready!

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Peace out homies.  Six two and Even!

Can’t get used to losin’ you no matter what I try to do.  Gonna live my whole life thorough, loving you.  -Andy Williams

Public Service Announcement:  Ok, here we go!  By now you’ve extra’d extra’d, read all about it.  You’ve real all  about it ad-nauseum.  Read all about it without pausium.  But I’m here like Santa Clausium.  I’m here not to give you the merits or disadvantages of this trade.  I’m here to give you some fun facts.  I’m here to tell you Jay Cutler has been traded to the Bears, coming off a season in which he threw for 4,526 yards.  Only two players have changed teams after throwing for at least 4,000 yards.  Only Elvis Grbac after throwing for 4,164 yards in 2000 and only Brett Favre after having 4,155 passing yards in 2007.  How about that?    Read More »

Stampede they’re comin’ up to draw.  Stampede three thousand herd or more.  Here they come a smokin’ fire.  Boys you better earn your hire.  Stampede and hell to score.  -Johnny Cash

Public Service Announcement:  Ok, here we go!  If a tree falls in the forest, does anybody hear it?  If a football championship is won in O Canada, does anybody care?    Read More »

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.  -Epictetus      Read More »