Archive for January, 2008

Who the Packers Play in 2008

As the season ends one game short of a shot at a title, about the only thing left to do it look ahead at the 2008 season.  With that, here are the teams the Packers will take on in 2008: Home Bears Lions Vikings Falcons Panthers Cowboys Texans Colts Away Bears Lions Vikings Saints Bucs [...]

Packers Season Ends With a Question Mark – Part I

As the final kick sailed through on Sunday night, Packer fans around the world were left scratching their heads wondering what had just happened. A season that started out as a question mark has concluded in much the same way. With the ‘football gods’ apparently watching over them, the Packers were ushered into home field [...]

Dream Season Ends on Tynes’ Frozen 47-Yard Kick in 23-20 Loss

  The Packers’ road to glory was cut short Sunday by a heartbreaking 23-20 loss in overtime to the New York Giants. The Giants intercepted a Brett Favre pass to Donald Driver. Corey Webster picked off the pass and returned it nine yards to the Green Bay 34. Lawrence Tynes sealed the deal with a [...]

McCarthy Inks 5-Year Extension

                        It was really a matter of when as opposed to if – this meaning the possibility of Green Bay Packers head coach Mike McCarthy signing a long-term extension with the team.  Pete Dougherty of the Green Bay Press-Gazette reports that McCarthy has agreed in principle to a 5-year extension as head coach of the [...]

Packer Chatter Impacts Productivity

The amount of time Wisconsin workers spend chatting about the Packers while on the job is costing employers millions of dollars.  Chances are just about every interaction you have at work today will include some mention of Sunday’s NFC Championship Game at Lambeau Field.  The Milwaukee “Journal Sentinel” reports that if every worker in the [...]

Green Bay Station Nixes Seinfeld Broadcasts For Manning

A Green Bay television station will pull its regularly-scheduled “Seinfeld” rerun on Saturday to try and upset Giants quarterback Eli Manning’s schedule.  According to “Newsday,” the general manager at Channel 11 WLUK made the decision because Manning is a fan of the show.  On Sunday, the Giants and Packers will play in Green Bay for the [...]

NFC Championship Preview: New York Giants at Green Bay Packers

This Sunday’s NFC showdown feature two teams that had about the same odds of making the playoffs as Britney Spears did shaving her head. Well both shocked the world in doing just that. The Giants stumbled to a 0-2 start behind a depleted and confused defense and a quarterback in Eli Manning who was completing [...]

5 Keys to the Packers Beating the Giants Sunday

  There is not a single more important two weeks in football the the Divisional playoff round and the Super Bowl game coming in the final two weeks of the season. In the final two games of the NFL season a team will either make history or one team will stop history from being made. [...]