Wisconsin Football, December 2010
If you love football and you live in Wisconsin, it's really tough right now. Badger football has slowly but emphatically kicked itself up the ladder from 7th or 8th or so on most of the college team ranking polls to 4th just about everywhere. Not that I'm complaining. But now we're headed for the Rose Bowl to duke it out with TCU (I think that's Texas Christian University but everybody just uses the initials now, leaving neophytes guessing...). TCU is number 3 and still lose-less. That's the opposite of winless. The vocabulary experts just haven't caught up with modern times yet. Anyway, the week leading up to New Year's Day is gonna be mighty tense.
Then there's the Packers. I don't know how our Wisconsin pro team can keep on winning, week after week, when we keep losing our top team players to injuries. Talk about stress! Even our losses have been by only a measly 3 points. There ought to be a semi-winning category for great tries. We'd be over the top. Anyway on Sunday we play the Detroit Lions--the NFL's basement team, but they almost win every game. That is scary. I've been playing out upcoming games in my dreams lately and I may not make it to Superbowl Sunday if they keep scaring us fans with close games. I figure Rodgers has to keep the team going on every series, if we're to make it all the way. (He's the quarterback, for all you non-cheesehead people). Anyway, one of these days the Lions are going to come roaring out ahead of their opponent, and it can't be us. We need this win too much. Whoops! Here comes another sleepless night.
We're upping our ammunition. Thompson (the Packer's manager) and McCarthy (coach) have us lined up with three strong (hopefully) running backs now to replace the Number One runner Ryan Grant who went on the injured reserve list just as the season got started. They've also beefed up our other weak spot, special teams, by super-training the speed demon rookie Sam Shields, hoping he'll become another Adrian Peterson or Desmond Howard and give us some hair-raising full runbacks up the field. So you see, we can't lose now. This team is geared up to make it all the way this year.
The only one who might not make it is this competitive fan, who can't stand to lose. The biggest problem I have right now, next to loss of sleep, is: What am I going to do with my life when the football season is over?
On Wisconsin and Go, Pack!
Margaret
NOTE: By now you realize I wrote this post on Saturday and we did lose to the Lions. Ugh! Ugh! Have I lost faith? Goodness, no! The Bears also lost Sunday and by a ton. So we still have a chance, though not a good one. Both our teams have a rough schedule to play yet. And though the Bears might win the division title, we played competitively and almost beat one of the top teams out there this year, the Atlanta Falcons. And this despite our numerous injuries.
Good fans never give up hope!
Then there's the Packers. I don't know how our Wisconsin pro team can keep on winning, week after week, when we keep losing our top team players to injuries. Talk about stress! Even our losses have been by only a measly 3 points. There ought to be a semi-winning category for great tries. We'd be over the top. Anyway on Sunday we play the Detroit Lions--the NFL's basement team, but they almost win every game. That is scary. I've been playing out upcoming games in my dreams lately and I may not make it to Superbowl Sunday if they keep scaring us fans with close games. I figure Rodgers has to keep the team going on every series, if we're to make it all the way. (He's the quarterback, for all you non-cheesehead people). Anyway, one of these days the Lions are going to come roaring out ahead of their opponent, and it can't be us. We need this win too much. Whoops! Here comes another sleepless night.
We're upping our ammunition. Thompson (the Packer's manager) and McCarthy (coach) have us lined up with three strong (hopefully) running backs now to replace the Number One runner Ryan Grant who went on the injured reserve list just as the season got started. They've also beefed up our other weak spot, special teams, by super-training the speed demon rookie Sam Shields, hoping he'll become another Adrian Peterson or Desmond Howard and give us some hair-raising full runbacks up the field. So you see, we can't lose now. This team is geared up to make it all the way this year.
The only one who might not make it is this competitive fan, who can't stand to lose. The biggest problem I have right now, next to loss of sleep, is: What am I going to do with my life when the football season is over?
On Wisconsin and Go, Pack!
Margaret
NOTE: By now you realize I wrote this post on Saturday and we did lose to the Lions. Ugh! Ugh! Have I lost faith? Goodness, no! The Bears also lost Sunday and by a ton. So we still have a chance, though not a good one. Both our teams have a rough schedule to play yet. And though the Bears might win the division title, we played competitively and almost beat one of the top teams out there this year, the Atlanta Falcons. And this despite our numerous injuries.
Good fans never give up hope!
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