Lambeau Legends: All-Time Green Bay Packers Offense

Published on: 26th July, 2010

So the long-awaited week of training camp has arrived, and come Saturday, current Packer greats like Aaron Rodgers, Donald Driver, and Charles Woodson will strap on the pads and take to Ray Nitschke Field to prepare for what many of us are hoping could be one of those special years. But ...

Indecision 2010: A Case in Defense of Brett Favre’s Annual Waiting Game

Published on: 25th July, 2010

Training camps across the NFL will open at various points this week, including the Vikings’ camp in Mankato, Minn., this upcoming Friday. Of course, Brett Favre will not be there. Instead, Favre will be infamously mowing his lawn, playing football in the mud (and Wrangler’s) with high school kids, and hemming and ...

Green Bay’s Greenest and Goldest: The Top 10 Packers of All-Time

Published on: 19th July, 2010

So, now that “The Decision” has “Been Made,” sports fans can finally turn their attention to where it should be: Brett Favre. Juuuust kidding. I’m talking about training camp, which is now less than a mere two weeks away. And you know what that means—projection, prediction, and hyperbole, oh my! But there is ...

Why Showing Up To Minicamp Was The Right Move For Tramon Williams

Published on: 22nd June, 2010

Aware of the Green Bay Packers’ secondary deficiencies as I am, the news that the team’s third corner, Tramon Williams, would be reporting to mandatory minicamp this week came as quite a relief. To be clear, Williams did not kick and scream in skipping the team’s voluntary portions of the offseason. Like ...

Six Reasons the Wisconsin Badgers Will Win the Big Ten

Published on: 21st June, 2010

With the annual organized madness that is Wisconsin student ticket sales happening today, I’m sure I’m like many with Badger football on the mind. Granted, we’re still roughly 75 days from actually seeing the cardinal and white storm Las Vegas for their first tilt of the year. But considering the high expectations ...

In Defense of Ted Thompson, Green Bay Packers GM

Published on: 11th June, 2010

As with all other Packers news, some people took the Brandon Underwood-Lake Delton controversy as an opportunity to call for general manager Ted Thompson’s head. The logic went: Thompson failed to spend one of his seven picks on a cornerback—instead trusting in Jarrett Bush, Pat Lee, and Brandon Underwood to improve—and ...

Breaking Down Big Ten Expansion Ramifications

Published on: 4th June, 2010

Sometime in the relatively near future, the Big Ten Conference will undergo a makeover so dramatic it would make Heidi Montag proud. But the big question is, how will the procedure affect Spencer, LC, and Audrina? Welcome to college football’s version of The Hills (and apologies for the analogy). Despite recent noncommittal (and ...

Why a Super Bowl in New York Is a Bad Idea

Published on: 25th May, 2010

When NFL owners voted on Tuesday to hold the 2014 Super Bowl in East Rutherford, N.J., it signaled a climatic paradigm shift for the sport’s biggest game. It also signaled stupidity. By and large, it appears that the decision is being met favorably. “Football is a game of the elements,” the large number ...