Dispatches: Stensation at Lambeau
Posted on January 14th, 2008 – 11:05 AMBy Michael Rand
This is going to test your Monday morning gag reflex unless you have sold your soul to Old Scratch himself. That said, Stensation has done a nice job capturing the horror magic of Lambeau Field on Saturday, where he celebrated his 27th birthday in style (and by that we mean he might not have even had to urinate in a bathroom sink). He also snapped those pictures you see, which we will caption, “White Cheddar,” and “Wisconsin’s tribute to skinny Elvis.” The floor is his:
By the time the trillions of silver dollar-sized flakes really started coming down Saturday at Lambeau Field, six minutes remained in the third quarter. Green Bay was up 35-17 and had out-gained the Seahawks 295-153, 125-11 on the ground. By this point, prophecies had been declared by both teams’ fans as well.
Seattle fan (to anyone around him who would listen): Win, and I’m celebrating at a bar. Lose, I’m drinking at a bar anyway! I love this town!
Green Bay fan (in the restroom): Big [redacted] to the left, little [redacted] to the right.
Ah, playoff football. Even without the flakes falling down heavily at about a half-mile an hour (truly making it seem like we were in some sort of snow globe), this was quite the experience. Sober, hammered or in between, you’re among friends at Lambeau. And let’s face it, it’s not hard to make friends when your team is playing this well. I give the Seahawks fans credit, too. They came out in force happily snapping photos with the giant statues of Curly Lambeau and Vince Lombardi. (Extra props to the father of rookie Will Herring, videotaping his son’s every move during warm-ups on the hallowed ground). Those dressed in blue, green and white were pretty loud the first five minutes of the game. Then it was back to reality. From the fourth row of the corner of the north end zone (to the left for those of you watching on TV), it was hard to make out most of the plays on the other end of the field during the game. But I knew this much: It was playoff football. At Lambeau. In the snow. It doesn’t get much better than that.
46 Responses to "Dispatches: Stensation at Lambeau"
This is going to test your Monday morning gag reflex
Yep.
“At Lambeau. In the snow. It doesn’t get much better than that”…finally a guy who says it like it is instead of like you whining weenies who never have zip to add except …redacted] redacted] redacted] redacted] redacted] redacted] redacted] redacted] …(see how obnoxoxious your little sphincter boy code is !!! (By the way, how did the Vikings do, tru blu Stu ?)
Every time the Packers win, it’s like salt in the wound. The Bears did in fact sweep the Packers this year, which showed that they could play when the felt like it. Unfortunately they felt like playing about as much as I feel like reading what P3 has to say.
Insert 3 200 word entries now…
Yep, P3 is about like every other irrational Packers fan out there.
That said, as I’ve mentioned before, I had a blast when I went to Lambeau, too. You really should go if you’re a football fan.
However, and I can’t emphasize this nearly enough: go Eli.
P3 is becoming more and more like a Boston Sports Fan every day.
This is going to test your Monday morning gag reflex
RandB, you of all people should know that, by definition, “fans” (check the meaning of the word out) are “irrational”, but leaving that difficult truism aside, I need to take y’all on again. Poor y’all. Time to lose….So, here’s another thought way above y’all heads..
“If hearts and minds could be erased (and with enough alcohol while being out with the boy scouts it can), but if it was indeed possible to forget what team you had been imprinted to follow as a duck to his mother, if y’all were then left with a blank check in your mind (easy to imagine, you know that one too well, Stu/jama etal) and then you suddenly woke some first day of a new foo’ball season, would you want, as your team, the Packers or that other team followed for years simply out of propinquity (look it up, blogheads) ?
I’m surprised P3 hasn’t commented yet on this post. Oh yeah…go Firefox!
a gag reflex can be caused by more than the Pack, Dave
“Wisconsin’s tribute to skinny Elvis.”
Rand, you know Wisconsinites are incapable of paying tribute to “Skinny Elvis”, they have a hard enough time losing the weight to impersonate “Bloated, dead-on-the-toilet Elvis”
If you’ve ever played as a kid being the remaining soldier or spy behind enemy lines, you would understand how much fun it is to tangle with an enemy far superior in numbers enemy but one far inferior in thought and concept, an army of sore losers like yourselves. I mean I didn’t cause your team to lose or mine to win, but get over it. The Vikings have stunk since Moss and Culpepper left, yet you still whine, mope and carry on every year…for chrissake !!!
Reading P3 So You Don’t Have To:
I know words.
This has been another edition of Reading P3 So You Don’t Have To, a joint service of Stu and the Children’s Television Workshop.
P3
How did the Packers do against the Bears?!
At least I have that going for me for the next 7 months.
+10 for Stu
It is kind of deflating when Stu wins the COW on a Monday.
RandB, the bigger question should be …..which is the biggest fan, he who has some a good team to cheer for and does just that, or a fan of an abysmal team that year after year mutters under his breath about winning teams ?
How about a creative sports writing contest instead of a +1 - +10 popularity contest ? I don’t think someone needs to be use propinquity (look it up) to the local yokel team to write up a new blog, though the COW concept still strikes me as much too incestual…or as that is often defined “rolling your own”…
and jama, it doesn’t matter to me, since you asked earlier
How did the Packers do against the Bears?!
Well, they sure [redacted] the bed in Chicago. That was impressive.
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…….isn’t reading your 6th grade stuff far more lame than you claim mine to be ?
What would we write about if P3 wasn’t here? Oh that’s right, things other than the Pack.
P3, how is dissing the Vikings and praising the Packers, week after week, creative writing? Please give us another point of view on something other than slandering women and the futility of Vikings fans. Oh and the Packers are off limits too. Thanks
This blog is so much more fun without P3’s comments. It’s like an idiotic burden has been lifted.
That settles it, I’m going to write a letter to Mozilla telling them what a genius idea this new blocker was.
Jama, you left out his frequent criticism of people from different backgrounds with names that he doesn’t like, all the while claiming not to be racist or a bigot.
Because it’s a shield… I’m not a racist, but [insert racist comment here]” guards you against any and all criticism. After all, if you don’t think you’re a racist or a bigot, you can’t be one, right?
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Reading P3 So You Don’t Have To:
All work and no play make Jack a dull boy.
This has been another edition of Reading P3 So You Don’t Have To, an award-nominated joint service of Stu and the Children’s Television Workshop.
jamagirl, if you want some creative thought, try this. It should appear today or tomorrow on the Star op-ed page. Do you know how to find that ? It will be under my name, of course. Send along your writing, if you wish, if you can….
“Every four years as a new Presidential election approaches, slight variations of the same time worn and shop tested metaphors emerge as the signature imagery in a candidate’s stump speeches. This year, for example, it’s the “hope and change” or “defining moment in history” of the Obama campaign. I don’t fault Senator Obama for playing this winning hand though it does seem questionable what those worthy yet indistinct promises might actually mean since it is certain no candidate would gain much ground publicly opposing hope and change.
What I don’t understand after hearing his speeches (and this applies to other candidates as well) is the lack of many platform specificities that might actually define this moment in history. So, preaching to the choir without offering such particulars is hardly a change at all, but is simply the politics of old “
Rand, you may have to close the italics tag…
I have hundreds more. When do you want to see them ?
Funny. I read the op-ed page, and I saw a thesis from a 9th grade government class written by…(guess who?!)…P3!
Simply amazing. I wouldn’t be surprised if he uses this as a bragging point to those of you who can still see his comments.
When someone is done reading that since you have no trouble ripping me before, let’s see if you thought it pretty tightly worded and pretty good at that, or is this going to be like rooting against the Packers that even if you liked the letter you could say nothing positive…
Let’s see your work, Dave, and it wasn’t a “bragging” point at all, but simply a response to Jama…besides, Dave how did you know to look for it if your Firefox (the only fox you ever knew) was so efficient
Hardehar + the Star doesn’t publish 9th grade stuff, but you can try, Sir David of the Empty Mind
Did anyone else see the Editorial this weekend on the EP drinking/Facebook thing? Will that be the last word from the media? I sure hope so.
Funny, stu, jama, etal on this page so devoid of creativity. I gave you that piece Jamagirl, to answer your request yet you now have your head in the sand..how apropos a behavior for a Viking fan….moral of the story is..don’t ask for what you can’t handle…
I sure hope your post will also be your last of the day. What a blowhard !!!
Let me guess, P3–on this one, we either say that yes, it was “pretty tightly worded and pretty good,” or we’re wrong, and we’re idiots, and we have smaller genetalia and brains than you, just like when no one said that the Packers game this weekend was one for the ages like you thought?
So you’re all for trying to bring some freshing thinking to this blog, as long as that thinking agrees with yours, otherwise it’s time to mock and ridicule?
P3
First off this is a sports blog. I think the Strib has a political blog but my mental capacity is to low to understand what they are talking about. Maybe your “creative thinking” would better be understood their.
Second I am absolutely not a Vikings fan. If you took the time to read anything anyone else wrote you would know by now that I am a Bears fan. I have only mentioned this once or twice but I thought you would have caught on.
Third, I still don’t understand why you need to know whether I am a male or female and why you just assume that I am female because I haven’t responded to your ridiculous name calling.
being called female is hardly name calling or is mailing a card on mother’s day name calling as well…but personally I don’t care, since it’s my bias that females make the better writers in many areas
Jama, here’s another letter published quite awhile back about the Kobe Bryant rape trial….this one is about sports. Do you like this one any better ?
To letters,
Unlike the farcical O.J. Simpson who-done-it murder trial, the rape trial of yet another idolized sport superstar, Kobe Bryant, will not be about who did it. We already know who did it, but this trial will be about if this possibly naive woman asked for it. Asked for it despite the physical trauma clearly evident on her body, trauma that no one, man or woman, naive and awestruck or not, would allow “consensually”.
Besides my concern that this woman gets justice, I’m worried that Johnny Cochran’s “jury nullification” ploy will once again be employed, the too often successful tactic whereby Bryant will walk, freed by a jury of his peers choosing not to see the trial in front of them but instead focusing on the trials they themselves may have lived. It is quite understandable that such a jury would not want to be a party to taking away the freedom of yet another black man, but, nonetheless, that would be nothing more than sanctioned racism. Johnny Cochran played O.J.’s race card to perfection. I hope the Colorado jury can see beyond such glib “if it don’t fit ..” game playing nonsense to give this woman her due.
Paul Peter Paulos
You win
I suck and you rock, Congratulations!
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RandBall, put an end to this idiot and his ramblings. For the last year, this blog of your has been a fun stop on the web. The comments and commenters were enjoyable and brought something more to the table than other the inane “First!!” comments seen elsewhere online. After reading the last few items and the ramblings of an obviously unemployed Pablo Paulie Petros, I find myself longing for fewer and fewer posts each day, as it gives him less of an opportunity to share his special talents with us all.
To brag about one’s letter ending up on the print version of the Trib’s Op/Ed page might be the single saddest thing I have ever read. Find some help PPP. Get offline and find some help.
MHS: It’s getting to that point, isn’t it.
MHS, I wasn’t bragging…only responding to Jama asking if I ever wrote about something other than to jam the vikes…so I offered up 2 such pieces, one recent and political, one from the time of Kobe’s trial, a sports letter, that could fit on a bright sports blog…so what do the guys around here want ? The exact same kind of stuff so many of them write ? So, how would that benefit this blog or anyone in it, in essence, by spouting those same blurbs over and over …offering up mindless stuff like [redacted] (why ?) all over the place.
And you, RandB, it’s your column. Do you want nothing in it but Stus and Daves and writers of that ilk in here or someone different, someone to stir the pot, someone who can actually write more than 25 words in one sitting without asking where everyone is going out that night ? I wrote a number of pieces for your old column before the Powers that Be pulled the plug, so you saw then and can see now I am no ordinary writer, and am indeed employed as a writer, but if you want only such ordinary writers who largely spend their time backing this solo local team of theirs, let me know. Just remember I was asked to produce the two letters MHS referred to, excellent letters as many of my blog entries have been, so it’s like a team getting trounced by a runner on another team and then proceeding to ask the ref (you) to kick the guy out. Freedom of Speech…yeah right. Where does that exist ?
You probably notice all thes posts as they come in all the time but here’s the first few entries from the above “Internets:Silky Smooth”…so I want to ask you straight up… is this what you really want in your blog ..honestly ?
Dave MN says:
January 14th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
Commercial Drop Bear is mass produced on farms similar to American chicken factories.
Sorry, but I don’t eat anything but cage-free drop bear.
RandBall says:
January 14th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
Stu: She was in town for the weekend, so it was a local burlesque show. But still.
Dave MN says:
January 14th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
Did she leave before or after the amputee strippers wrestled in brown mustard?
I’m guessing it would have looked nothing like this…
Toonces51 says:
January 14th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
Did she leave before or after the amputee strippers wrestled in brown mustard?
And P3 doesn’t like and/or think your writing is creative…
Thanks for sharing
I’d prefer reading in my native language, because my knowledge of your languange is no so well. But it was interesting! Look for some my links:
