My morning listen recently did their “Holiday Horror Stories,” where people recount some of their more memorable holiday experiences. One of the funniest of the season was a story of a daughter whose fanatical Packer-fan-father was duped into believing a Christmas gift of the plaster mold of her husband’s lower teeth was really a mold of Vince Lombardi’s teeth.
For awhile this season (pretty much from mid-October until the game in Dallas on November 29th) we heard talk about Brett Favre possibly being in the running for his fourth NFL MVP award. The common wisdom was that Tom Brady was the odds-on fav to win the award with his man-among-boys stats, but Favre’s nostalgia might have a chance to win against Brady’s superlative stats.
That is until Favre walked into Texas Stadium having forgotten that was a man and was (almost) 40.
Sorry about the early-80’s Fresh Prince backbeats.
Favre’s turn-back-the-clock performance in Dallas pretty much silenced those who thought he had a chance at a 4th MVP award. Now, not even a bloody sock performance can improve Favre’s odds of winning the award. It didn’t get Schilling the MVP for his league, either.
Brady only has the puny arm/will of Eli Manning left to beat to go undefeated this year, and his stats couldn’t be assailed if you had Batman’s grappling hook and suction cup feet.
So instead, we’ll just hang onto the delivery confirmation receipt for the letter we sent Santa this year asking for a Green Bay Superbowl.
That’s what you get if you’re a Green Bay Packer during a playoff season if you’ve been accused of a crime and held over for trial. Special Dispensation. The judge in Nick Barnett’s case of battery in an Appleton bar will be postponed until the end of the Packers playoff run.
You know, I’ve got a few people I need to conduct business with. Maybe I oughta try out for the Packers before I do that business, so if things go south, I’ll know the big G has my back.
In a funny side story, the shoe was on the other foot on Sunday when referee Jim Quirk put a choke-hold on Barnett and pulled him off a pile of bodies in the fourth quarter of Sunday’s game against the Bears.
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Have a listen to the story - this story starts about 3/4 of the way through the audio file.
So instead, we’ll just hang onto the delivery confirmation receipt for the letter we sent Santa this year asking for a Green Bay Superbowl.
