If I could, I would have written a better ending to the Packer season. It would have wrapped up in Arizona with a Super Bowl win following one of those glorious I-told-you-so rolls through the playoffs we Packer fans could practically taste. But, I don't write fiction here and, in truth, the Packers did not [...]
Of course, the hair caught my eye first. "How in the world do those braids not get yanked in the pile?" I thought. So, I started watching De'Vondre Campbell a little closer than I would have. Pretty quickly I realized how good he is. Timing is everything in athletics and this seems like a perfect [...]
If you want some insight into what it’s like to play for a 13-3 team heading into the last round of the playoffs, ask a guy who’s been there. NFL Hall of Fame cornerback Herb Adderley knows all about magical seasons. Just a second-year guy in 1962, he played a key role on what some [...]
There really is something magical about playoff football at Lambeau and I loved every minute of last night's game. I loved that most of the stadium sang along to the National Anthem. I loved that the pregame fireworks sent so much smoke in the air you could barely see Za'Darius Smith dance down through the [...]
From the day we met her, our son Vinnie's girlfriend Danni has felt like family. A jump-right-in-and-help kind of girl, Danni has floated down a river with us, cheered our various and quirky sports affiliations (Go Croatian soccer!), toasted, chuckled, cleaned, celebrated and consoled. She builds the best camp fires we have ever seen and [...]