Brats & Beer

Happy weekend!

The writing was on the wall when Ted Thompson selected Jordy Nelson first in the draft that either Koren Robinson or Ruvell Martin would probably be on the short list to be cut from the Packers roster. Today that list got shorter: Robinson has been released.
Robinson is 28 now, which doesn’t seem over-the-hill old but [...]

Maybe it’s just me but hasn’t this seemed like the longest week ever? (Obviously it’s not because I have been so hard at work posting here on this blog.) Whatever your week’s work situation, we all deserve to celebrate this afternoon with a tall icy cold one.
Although if you are in an adventurous mood — [...]

With rookie camp underway, Packer Nation is all abuzz to find out how these new players look and what kind of impact they are going to have for the team this season. Greg Bedard at the JS Packers Blog does an admirable job with some thoughts watching them on the field for the first time, [...]

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Great play by Joe Pavelski scoring the winning goal in overtime last night against the Dallas Stars and staving off playoff elimination for his San Jose Sharks. Of course what else would expect from a Wisconsin native who helped lead the Badgers to an NCAA title just a couple years ago?

Rookie camp opened in Green Bay today, our first chance to see what Ted Thompson netted in the NFL Draft and from the pool of rookie free agents. So what did we learn? Not a whole lot, except that Mike McCarthy is a happy guy: He’s “happy with our draft picks,” “happy with everyone,” and [...]

I completely missed the boat on the sports town hall program hosted by Bob Costas the other night, but I have since seen the videos of Buzz Bissinger’s insane tirade against sports bloggers and blogging in general. If you missed it too, The Bucky Channel has some clips. The sound of an industry dieing is [...]