Author Nick Olig

Some (Jordan) Love songs for your situational Packers playlist

August 30, 2023

We’re legitimately excited about the start of the Jordan Love era. It’s his time to be the leader of the Green Bay Packers, and we’re thrilled about that. Forget about the “Super Bowl or bust/oops bust again” p...

Happy birthday, Bob Uecker

Nick Olig

January 26, 2023

Updated from an original 2019 post. Happy birthday, Ueck!The ultimate Brewer happens to be Bob Uecker, which is kind of odd since he never played a game for the team. Sure, today's birthday boy drove in eig...

Khris Middleton got dissed on this ‘NBA Jam’ T-shirt

Nick Olig

November 2, 2022

A man in an NBA Jam-themed Milwaukee Bucks T-shirt walks into a pizzeria. As he pays for his order, the cashier compliments his shirt. The man says thanks, but then the cashier squints at the shirt, scrutinizin...

Emissary offers “extreme volume and distortion” therapy on ‘Cerulean’

Nick Olig

May 4, 2021

For musical artists to stay sane in COVID-19 times, it’s been easy to rock at home, but hard—if not impossible—to safely get out there and put on a killer show. Months have have turned into more than a year of ...

A look back at some forgettable Super Bowl halftime shows

Nick Olig

February 4, 2021

The 55th Super Bowl is slated for Sunday, February 7 in a meeting between two teams who probably envy the 13 total championships the Green Bay Packers have won in their unmatched history. To distract us from th...

We ranked bull names in the ‘1994 Beef Sire Directory’

Nick Olig

December 3, 2020

It’s great to have friends who collect old books and magazines, because that’s how we found out about the 1994 Beef Sire Directory. With its home base in Shawano, Wisconsin, if you were looking for a hookup sou...

Deerly Beloved: Selecting our all-time Milwaukee Bucks All-Star team

Nick Olig

February 13, 2020

The 69th NBA All-Star game will take place on Sunday, February 16, which raises a few questions. How many tears will be shed in the heart-wrenching tribute to Kobe Bryant? Will life imitate art in the form of M...

Meet Milo, the undefeated Brewers baby

Nick Olig

October 12, 2018

As if fans of the Milwaukee Brewers needed any more reason to feel the magic of this postseason run, consider that the team has a fan who has never seen them lose. Born Sunday, September 23 at 9:07 a.m. with a ...

6 Milwaukee Brewers All-Stars in old-school video games

Nick Olig

July 16, 2018

Milwaukee's representation in Major League Baseball's midsummer classic was scarce decades ago. Before five Brewers were deemed All-Stars in the 2018 season, the franchise was prone to sending just one requisit...

9 nominees for the (nonexistent) Wisconsin Sports Poster Hall of Fame

Nick Olig

April 17, 2018

Few things are as subjective or nostalgic as posters. A blown-up snapshot and all that it stands for may conjure a million different reactions in people. Posters are like charming ghosts from a childhood bedroo...

Bob Uecker once wrecked his buddy’s new car, and it was glorious

Nick Olig

March 7, 2018

Bob Uecker didn't hit a home run in September of 1967, but his buddy Clete did. And that was good enough for Ueck.Some background: A Honda dealership in Atlanta was running a promotion for the players in th...

Once un-Herd of, there’s a fun new pro hoops team in Oshkosh

Nick Olig

February 9, 2018

Menominee Nation Arena in Oshkosh was packed with Wisconsin Herd fans at a nearly full capacity on Saturday, February 3. A daylong snowstorm caused a few patches of empty seats, but the rest of us were treated ...

Remembering the life and comedy of Chris Farley

Nick Olig

December 18, 2017

On the anniversary of Chris Farley’s untimely death, it’s worthwhile to recall a formula someone once expressed for living a full day: laugh, cry, and think.Chris Farley used his time on this Earth to deliv...

Double Team: 10 Green Bay Packers with celebrity lookalikes

Nick Olig

December 4, 2017

From Thomas Jefferson and Michael Bolton to Homer Simpson and Guy Incognito, lookalikes prove that sometimes DNA runs out of new material. Over the course of the recent history of the Green Bay Packers, the tea...

Samkon Gado and other unlikely Packers backups who stepped up to fill in for fallen stars

Nick Olig

November 3, 2017

It sure sucks when your favorite football team loses its best player to a (possibly) season-ending injury, but the remedy to feeling as though the Green Bay Packers are officially collar-boned is not nihilism. ...

10 Packers and Cowboys you might remember as actors

Nick Olig

October 4, 2017

The Green Bay Packers are heading to Texas to clash with the Dallas Cowboys this Sunday, and there are many ways to preview the meeting. Insight could include terms like “elite quarterbacks” and “nitro package,...

Remembering the time Bob Uecker crushed an old man’s pitch for his first homer

Nick Olig

September 27, 2017

Though Bob Uecker got the call-up to the majors midway through the month of April in the 1962 season, when the time came to club his initial home run for the Milwaukee Braves, he didn't rush into it. The man ha...

The man who made mediocrity famous: Bob Uecker’s ‘Catcher In The Wry’ still delights after 35 years

Nick Olig

August 24, 2017

It may have been lost in the glory of Harvey's Wallbangers and a charge to the World Series, but on August 24, 1982, incomparable Brewers' play-by-play man Bob Uecker published his autobiography: Catcher In The...

Jim Abbott saved his last great baseball moment for the Brewers

Nick Olig

June 30, 2017

Jim Abbott’s Major League career lasted a decade. It began in California and ended in Milwaukee. Along the way, he totaled 87 wins, a 4.25 ERA, 888 strikeouts, and a no-hitter. He began his journey as a rookie ...