If it seems like we’ve been picking on the Packers a lot lately, well, you’re right. We honestly don’t wake up in the morning thinking, “How are we going to make fun of Green Bay today?”

Update: This story was sent to us after the post was already up: apparently a TV station in Green Bay will NOT be showing a Seinfeld rerun on Saturday night because that is apparently Eli Manning’s favorite show. No, seriously. Come on, we’re serious! And we have the link to prove it! (Thanks to commenter Minnesnota and HT to Sports by Brooks). Now back to your regularly scheduled Packers mayhem:

That’s the beauty of the Packers and their fans: they just keep dropping comedy gold into our laps. Going away from this theme would be like uprooting a farmer from the rich, fertile soil of the Red River Valley and forcing him instead to grow crops in the desert. So: What we have here is a story sent to us by not one, not two, not three but four people already by 9 a.m. (and one of them was Paul Paulos!). You might have seen it already, but if you haven’t: woo boy! Here’s the link and here’s a snippet: Upset that his 7-year-old son wouldn’t wear a Green Bay Packers jersey during the team’s playoff victory Saturday, a man restrained the boy for an hour with tape and taped the jersey onto him. Mathew Kowald was cited for disorderly conduct in connection with the incident with his son at their home in Pardeeville, Lt. Wayne Smith of the Columbia County Sheriff’s Department said. Pardeeville is about 30 miles north of Madison. … Kowald’s wife filed a restraining order Wednesday, so Kowald will not be able to have contact with his family, Smith said. … Kowald, contacted later Wednesday by the Portage Daily Register, said the incident started as a joke. His son challenged him by saying he wouldn’t root for the Packers. When he tied the boy up, the youngster was laughing while his wife took pictures, he said. “Then he couldn’t get out and he got upset and that’s it. It lasted a minute,” he said. “I didn’t mean no harm, and he knows that, but I haven’t been able to tell him that.”

Un-be-lievable. But then again, very believable. So much so that we would also not bat an eyelash if we read these headlines coming out of Wisconsin:

*Packers fan urinates on friend to put out bratwurst fire, only makes it worse.

*Mark Chmura charity hot tub party/lock-in set for 9 p.m. Friday at Green Bay East High School.

*Green Bay Packers Wisconsin Cheese Hat, Cheesehead w/Brat Lei Necklace, and Women’s Bra Ultimate Lady’s Game Combo For Your Body! Wait, that one is true (thanks Ric-s).

Sweet mercy, let’s be serious for a minute. What. Is. Wrong. With. These. People? They have been given a gift of a wonderful football stadium, a tradition-rich team and a QB for the ages. And yet they just can’t help themselves from turning passion into complete buffoonery. We’re beginning to think Rocket is right. It is just one big cult.

*In absence of the fasola-link (he’s having computer problems, he says), we’ll leave you with this fine bit of writing by Mr. Reusse.

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