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With the NFC Championship at Lambeau tomorrow, it’s like all of Wisconsin is a drag racer getting ready for it’s next big run.  Short headers all pointing skyward, spitting fire and popping as we inch up to the starting tree.  And when that first ball is kicked off, the tree turns green - we’ll be racing through gears and beers, driving to get to the end of the strip before the guy in the other lane.

But tonight, we prep.  And that means lots of men who ordinarily never see the inside of a grocery store looking for the just the right spices, condiments and appetizers to spread out before them in a feast of carbs and fat.  Today my wife spotted two younger guys frantically searching for dill and garlic powder for what will certainly be a chip-and-dip extravaganza tomorrow.

And then there’s the beer pyramids at the front of every grocery store statewide.  As a state we are at peak party preparedness.

I have a family now, so the big playoff parties don’t happen at our place much anymore.  Well, that and the guy that peed all over the bathroom the last time we hosted a Packer playoff game kind of put a damper on the fun.

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I have a cool little clock next to my bed; it projects the time onto the ceiling. It also has a weather remote attached to the side of our house. Because it’s just under the soffit and facing south, it tends to report temperatures a little higher than they are.

This morning’s reading? -9 degrees.

You know how snow gets kinda squeeky when it gets really cold? The best description for the sound (for those who might be reading this from a place where snow doesn’t exist, or snow never gets this cold) is that it’s like clinker brick. A clinky, squeeky sound, like it got so cold that each cluster of fallen snowflakes has frozen into brittle china, cracking and breaking underfoot.

The projected high today? 1.  Not even the bikini girls can tough that out.

Thankfully, a heat wave is coming tomorrow, boosting gametime temps to 6. Local media is saying that it’s shaping up to be the second or third coldest game in Lambeau’s history. Ice Bowl II. I want to say that plays right into our hands, but the temperature in Chicago in the Packers week 16 blowout? 16 degrees. Ten warmer than it’s going to be tomorrow.

I expect to see the Big 5 spending a lot of time sitting on that big bench with the foot warmers in it tomorrow. I hope Ryan Grant is ready to run for 300 on Sunday.

To prepare the team, Mike McCarthy put the practice balls into the freezer yesterday before practice started. So they had to spend the entire practice in the warm Don Hutson Center throwing around cold footballs. Seems to me that if you want to practice swimming, the best place to do that is in the water.

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Just five days before I proclaimed the ‘07 Randy Moss Watch over, Randy Moss was allegedly in a Florida woman’s home, doing some prep work for the game against the Florida-based Jaguars by beating her up.

Part of her statement claims Moss has “a drug or alcohol problem.” Really? From the guy that was on TV telling people he liked smoking weed? Shocking.

Moss is hoping people won’t rush to judgment, that the woman is allegedly an extortionist looking to collect a check with five zeros.

Whatever.

Have you seen pictures of Randy Moss? Dude is ugly. You know that about the only way a woman is getting with him is if she thinks she has a shot at his cash.

Ever talked to a stripper about her plans for the future? It almost always includes using those dollar bills you just gave her for tuition to an ivy league school. Randy might be well served by having the same skepticism for nice things said to him by women. All women.

Should I reinstate the Mosswatch? Nah. I’ve got more fun things to occupy my time lately. Like deciding whether to buy the extra chunky or super chunky salsa for this weekend’s game.  But if the media hounds Moss for the next three weeks, giving him little sleep and driving a wedge into the Patriot locker room, I’m good with that.

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