Uh-oh…a Vikings fan.

The Giants defense could be a great pick as could the Jets because of their new coach, the defensive guru behind Baltimore for the past few years.

My favoritism will shine forth in this statement…Aaron Rodgers has looked stellar and is making me say “Brett who?”

Well I am not a die-hard Packers fan but Badgers, now that is a different story.  I think the rivalry is overrated.  I still remember one of the news stations, KARE 11 I believe, did an expose about the rivalry and how rude Vikings fans were.  They gave tickets to a family from Sleepy Eye who were Vikings fans but in order to go to the game they had to wear Packers clothes and visibly cheer for the Packers.  They showed them walking to the Metrodome and how Vikings fans would come up from behind and purposefully run into them and push them.  For me it was difficult being a Packer fan and living up in the burbs of Minneapolis.  I once joked that I would have my students wear Packers gear and pose on the Vikings ship in Eden Prairie for my Christmas card.  I respected people’s likes  but I never felt that in return.  I kept my mouth quite during the Booze Cruise on Lake Minnetonka only because I had my own booze cruise and fell in to the healing waters.  I also kept my mouth shut with the Wizzinator scandal only because I thought that one day I would have to use something similar.  I couldn’t say anything bad about the Koren Robinson scandal because the Packers signed him after the Vikings released him.  I also loved seeing the county sherriff talk about his arrest because I taught the sherriff’s son and the court house was next door to a 50s style diner where I hung out.  The only thing I ever really got upset with was when Chris Hovan tried to pick a fight with me in Mankato. 

I was at a Walmart here in Wisconsin yesterday and they had Favre vikings gear.  It’s just strange to seem him in that uniform.

I think the problems with their scandals had to do with the previous owner and head coach.  Tice wasn’t much of a disciplinarian.  He was just out there trying to be the players best friend.  I taught at a high school near Mankato and he invited a lot of the local high school coaching staffs to training camp.  When I saw Tice interacting with the players it was like watching high school kids in the hallway.  I had a friend that was a campus security guard at MSU and some of the stuff he encountered was scary especially with what the players tried to get away with on campus during training camp.