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Preseason: Packers to visit Broncos
The Denver Post is reporting today that the Packers' Week 3 preseason game will be at Denver. No date or time set, but it should be around Aug. 23, the paper says.No word from the Packers yet on their preseason slate, but that should be out in a week or two. It's probably ready...
The 2008 schedule with comments
Let's see...two division games on Monday nights ... a Sunday and a third Monday nighter ... but 10 Sunday Noon starts. So here's the schedule, with comments: (All Wisconsin times, home games in bold, national TV in italics) Mon., Sept. 8 Minnesota Vikings ...
Favre retirement date set?
Looks like we may have the date for the Brett Favre jersey retirement.The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports that the NFL will announce today that the Vikings will play the Green Bay Packers in the Monday night opener at 6 p.m. Sept. 8 on ESPN, probably at Lambeau Field, according to...
The 2008 preseason schedule
With some tweaking left to do:Mon., Aug. 11 CINCINNATI BENGALS Bishop's Charities Game 7 p.m. Central, ESPNWeek 2 at San Francisco 49ers TBA state TVWeek 3 at Denver Broncos TBA state TVWeek 4 TENNESSEE TITANS (Gold pkg.) Midwest Shrine Game TBA state TV
Rams to practice with Packers?
The Cheese League may be back in business.The St. Louis Rams are looking at a practice site in Wisconsin. They had considered UW-La Crosse, but that school is remodeling its stadium, so the Rams are looking at UW-Oshkosh and UW-Whitewater, neither of which has hosted a team.An obvious...
4 No More: The number's gone, too.
Mark Murphy, president and CEO of the Green Bay Packers, told the Journal Sentinel Wednesday that the Packers plan on retiring Brett Favre's number sometime this coming season. From the post:Murphy said he had had a preliminary discussion with Favre, and that bothFavre and the...
A great game
I had the Patriots, 42-14...well, that's what happens when you rely on facts, rather than emotion.Congratulations to the Giants defense and the offensive line, especially.You just never know.
So he hasn't TOTALLY retired...
Looks like Brett Favre won't just go fishing for a while. Note the following from the Mississippi Business Journal's blog:Want a shot at playing football with former Green Bay Packers and Southern Miss quarterback Brett Favre? Here's your chance:URGENT!! OPEN CASTING CALL...
And it's official
From the P-G:Favre to retire: Report says mental wear, tear of another season playedfactorPress-GazetteThe Brett Favre era is over.The man who hasbeen the Green Bay Packers' starting quarterback for all but three games of thelast 16 seasons, the only quarterback an entire generation...
Super Bowl ring on sale
A Packers 1996 Super Bowl ring is being sold on eBay for about $50,000. The seller - someone I am not familiar with but which seems to be operating out of a strip mall on Oneida Street - claims it is from "a starter" but does not give a name. The seller does have a Web site...
4 No More: 'Now I know what it's like to die'
One observer described it as "painful." And if there was any doubt Brett Favre is leaving, it was shredded Thursday.He was emotional - almost predictable - and honest - as always."I can still play," he said. "But I'm not up to the challenge any more."...
Brandt out
The Press-Gannett is reporting that Andrew Brandt is out as the Packers' VP of finance.They indicate it might be lingering disappointment at not getting Bob Harlan's job.
Moments away
In the immortal words of Al McGuire during the 1974 Final Four, when UCLA and North Carolina State were playing in one semifinal and Marquette in the other: "We're very happy to be playing for the JV championship."Al was a realist.I am too. The Packers will win but it...
Perfect.
From comedy writer Ken Levine:"By the way, new nickname for Jessica Simpson among Dallas Cowboy fans: Yoko Romo."
Strictly guiesswork
Rumors - so take them with a grain of salt - from the Packer Report message board...Some people in the organization expect Brett Favre to make his intentions known by next weekend. McCarthy had said it should be about a week or so after the Pro Bowl, so this time frame falls in the...
Here's a strange...
Picked this up over the transom ...The Packers are one of several plaintiffs being sued by a group that claims it holds the patent on transmitting JPEGs - photos - over computer lines and that they have had the patent since before the Internet started. By extension, they say, they...
Thompson through 2012
I guess I'd be a little happier if the Packers had waited one more year before extending Ted Thompson's contract - just for a little proof that this Packers team is built for the long run and isn't a one-year flash. But it has been put together with youth (except for the...
Gone with the wind
As Mickey Rivers said after a cold game in Cleveland: "That's what happens when you build a ballpark right next to the ocean."Quite simply, the Packers looked flummoxed by the weather while the Bears didn't. There's no other explanation. The Packers practiced...
Comment of the day
From noted Boston fan, ESPN.com's Bill Simmons, in a piece rating NFL quarterbacks:I'm just plain terrified by the possibility of a Pats-Packers Super Bowl -- not only will 90 percent of the crowd be Packers fans, not only will the entire country be galvanized behind one team...
Barnett hearing postponed
From the Appleton Post-Crescent:APPLETON â€" Court proceedings for Packers linebacker Nick Barnett, charged in Outagamie County with two counts of disorderly conduct, were postponed Wednesday until after the football season. Judge Harold Froehlich set a status conference on...
Pretty good home lineup
According to WHBY's Bill Scott, here's who the Packers will face next year along with the NFC North teams:At Lambeau Field, the Packers will face Dallas, Atlanta, Carolina, Houston and Indianapolis. On the road, the Packers will face Seattle, New Orleans, Tampa Bay, Jacksonville...
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