Brats & Beer

Looks like Mike McCarthy will get to choose his own defensive coordinator. At a press conference today, the Packers announced Jim Bates’ decision to leave Green Bay rather than stay on McCarthy’s staff. Oddly, Bates himself appeared at the press conference to explain it was his decision, which shows how popular Bates was after just [...]

What is it with big city coastal types singling out the Green Bay Packers on race issues? At the end of the 1999 season everyone jumped up to proclaim that the team fired Ray Rhodes because he’s black, and now today The San Jose Mercury News publishes a veiled indictment of the Packers for hiring [...]