Archive for June, 2008

Return Duties Up in the Air with Robinson’s Release

From: Pro Football Weekly With Koren Robinson having been shown the door in Green Bay, we hear as many as five different players — Will Blackmon, Tramon Williams, Brandon Jackson, DeShawn Wynn and Shaun Bodiford — will be in the mix for the team’s return duties later this summer.

Driver Takes Over Favre Charity Event

Packer great Donald Driver has taken over one of Brett Favre’s annual charity events.  More than five-thousand fans attended the charity softball competition at Fox Cities Stadium on Sunday.  Driver said the proceeds this year will go to Goodwill and the Special Olympics.  Other Packers taking part in the event included Charles Woodson, Aaron Kampman [...]

ESPN to Be All Over Green Bay in Week One

It looks as if Green Bay will be turned into ESPN central during the first week of the regular season.  The GreenBay Post Gazette reports that not only will the Monday Night Countdown crew be in town before their week one Monday night game vs the Vikings, but also there will be “Pardon the Interruption” [...]

Harrell’s Injuries Becoming a Big Concern for Pack?

From: Pro Football Weekly: If you’re looking for the most disappointing aspect of the Packers’ just-concluded OTAs, look no further than 2007 first-round draft pick Justin Harrell, who was shut down after injuring a disc lifting weights and undergoing minor back surgery in mid-April. In a perfect world, plans call for Harrell to be part [...]

Sunday Conversation With Aaron Rodgers

PFW Says Barbre Bulked Up This Past Offseason

From: Pro Football Weekly We hear the Packers’ Allen Barbre, who has been sharing the starting OLG job with incumbent Darryn Colledge, is certainly passing the eyeball test these days. Team insiders tell us that Barbre has added 16 pounds of muscle mass after participating in the team’s offseason workout program, which began in mid-March [...]

RB Herron Stops Home Intruder

A Packers running back thwarted a break-in at his home by slugging one of the intruders with a bed post.  Noah Herron heard glass breaking in the lower level of his home on Friday night.  When an intruder entered his bedroom, Herron struck the man with a post he’d unscrewed from his bed.  A second suspect was [...]