Spring Break
Wisconsin: the center of attention, eh?
Adam Loghides
Issue date: 8/6/08 Section: Sports
I'm not exactly sure how this happened, but it seems that the state of Wisconsin has somehow turned into the center of our nation's sports eye over the last few months. In fact, over the last two months, we have all watched and listened to information about the Packers and Brett Favre. Now we can add the Milwaukee Brewers to the fray. In the last two weeks the Packers have hosted a potential pennant showdown with their cousin to the south and have had a teammate to teammate, cheesehead to cheesehead battle in the dugout, landing them front and center of every installment of Baseball Tonight and SportsCenter.
The recent events surrounding the Brewers and Packers are enough to make most say "jeez" instead of "cheese." These two franchises couldn't be further apart in business strategy, and yet they are so close geographically. At least back in the day they used to share a stadium four times a year, when the Packers used to indulge their Milwaukee fan base with home games at County Stadium, where both teams' sidelines were on the same side of the field.
Those days are long gone. However, both teams have one very similar trait now:They will both be better from this day on as a result of the circus atmosphere they have both endured recently.
When Packers' General Manager Ted Thompson announced on Monday that Favre was officially added to the Packers' active roster, the Packers got infinitely better. Immediately.
They now have two commodities at quarterback, the toughest position to land talent in the NFL. And by "commodities" I mean "trade bait."
What NFL team wouldn't improve itself by adding Brett Favre? Last season, at the ripe old age of 38, Favre was throwing the ball all over the yard, setting touchdown records and teaching understudy Aaron Rodgers a thing or two - or a million. They say the older the cheese, the more it stinks. From 2004-2006, Favre proved that theory correct. But last season he changed everything, bringing the Pack to the edge of another Super Bowl.
The recent events surrounding the Brewers and Packers are enough to make most say "jeez" instead of "cheese." These two franchises couldn't be further apart in business strategy, and yet they are so close geographically. At least back in the day they used to share a stadium four times a year, when the Packers used to indulge their Milwaukee fan base with home games at County Stadium, where both teams' sidelines were on the same side of the field.
Those days are long gone. However, both teams have one very similar trait now:They will both be better from this day on as a result of the circus atmosphere they have both endured recently.
When Packers' General Manager Ted Thompson announced on Monday that Favre was officially added to the Packers' active roster, the Packers got infinitely better. Immediately.
They now have two commodities at quarterback, the toughest position to land talent in the NFL. And by "commodities" I mean "trade bait."
What NFL team wouldn't improve itself by adding Brett Favre? Last season, at the ripe old age of 38, Favre was throwing the ball all over the yard, setting touchdown records and teaching understudy Aaron Rodgers a thing or two - or a million. They say the older the cheese, the more it stinks. From 2004-2006, Favre proved that theory correct. But last season he changed everything, bringing the Pack to the edge of another Super Bowl.
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