Brats & Beer

Which NFL team has the greatest fan base in the league? Considering the Packers have missed the playoffs for two years in a row, suffered two shutout losses at home last year, and have done little in the free agent market under the watch of general manager Ted Thompson, and yet the team continues to [...]

It seems rather odd to be looking ahead to Thanksgiving when Memorial Day is still a couple months away, but that’s how it goes for the football fan in the off season. Heck, the college draft is still a month off, but have I already cleared that day on my calendar? You bet I have.
The [...]

They say if you live by the sword you’ll eventually die by the sword, and it has turned out to be true in the case of the Badger men’s basketball team.
For too many games, especially late in the season, Wisconsin made an art out of falling behind early then coming back strong to win. Friday’s [...]

I suppose as long as Brett Favre is wearing No. 4 for the Packers there will always be rumors about Green Bay making a play for a celebrity wide receiver. Last year ESPN’s Chris Mortensen stood firm by the story that Ted Thompson was ready to make a deal to sign Terrell Owens, at least [...]

It sure was a good thing that I was at work today instead of home in front of my TV; there’s a very good chance a shoe or a beer bottle or some other object would have become lodged in the screen early in Wisconsin’s opening-round NCAA tournament game.
Fer crying out loud, how do you [...]

I went on at some length earlier in the week about Ahman Green leaving Green Bay to be a free agent at Houston, but due to general busyness and such I completely missed the fact that William Henderson was cut from the roster a couple days ago. And if that event went by with a [...]

That was a damn depressing way for the Big 10 tournament to end, wasn’t it? The Wisconsin Badgers went cold for most of the afternoon and fell again to the Ohio State Buckeyes 66-49 in the final game.
It was not the way Wisconsin should have ended its run at the Big 10 championship, but Alando [...]

The Badgers are getting ready to tip off in the Big 10 tournament tomorrow, but for a I thought I’d go off topic here to rant about something I read recently.
Earlier this week some office in the federal bureaucracy called the Copyright Royalty Board decided to basically double the amount of royalties that Internet [...]

For a lot of football franchises out there, losing a starting running back who has piled up 8,100 yards over seven seasons would bring some kind of wrathful vengeance down on the general manger who let that player go, either from the fans or the local media. But then this is why it’s good to [...]

This is the sort of news that makes even your laziest occasional blogger finally sit down at his computer and post something. Ahman Green will no longer be wearing Green & Gold next season, because he signed with the Houston Texans yesterday.
In a way I’m at once disappointed and relieved. There’s a part of me [...]