Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
A small yoga studio on the east side of Appleton offered eloquent evidence of the 2025 NFL draft's influence on Wisconsin. There, Friday afternoon, a friendly yogi centered her class with the following metaphor: "We're going to build a foundation first," she said as we settled onto our mats. "Just like the city of Green [...]
(In honor of NFL Draft week, I'm re-sharing some of my favorite Packer draft stories. I wrote this one in 2018 about Packer legend and NFL Hall of Famer Herb Adderley) In marked contrast to all the hoopla surrounding the modern NFL draft, Herb Adderley signed his first NFL contract on the hood of a [...]
Just nine months after being selected in the first round of the newly merged NFL’s draft, California native and San Diego State quarterback Don Horn found himself suiting up for the Ice Bowl, the coldest football game in history. “Never have I been as cold as I was in the Ice Bowl,” he said. Still, [...]
In some ways the most memorable NFL draft my family experienced happened in 1999 when 12-year old Charlie, who loved a good practical joke, re-set the password on our cable box, blocked ESPN and left town with me, his unsuspecting mother. That year the Eagles dramatically chose Donovan McNab amid a chorus of boos from misguided [...]