Author: Nick Olig

We predicted the Bucks-Pacers playoff series by playing ‘NBA Jam’

April 17, 2025

Stocks have been tumbling, yet the richest have gotten richer. High prices are escalating. People are hearing the word “tariff” so much they want to jump off a damn bridge. Still, we have some good news to repo...

We predicted Brewers-Yankees opening day by playing ‘Ken Griffey Jr. Presents Major League Baseball’

Nick Olig

March 27, 2025

There are times in the life of every artist when they tell themselves, “It’d be great to be paid for this one.” Capitalism has a few flaws, so someone might conceivably turn down a writer’s pitch to play Ken Gr...

Next spring without Uecker: A tribute

Nick Olig

January 20, 2025

Ninety years, 11 months, and three weeks into his impressive Iron Man streak of not dying, the inevitable happened to Bob Uecker. Death is still batting 1.000. I know Ueck could come up with funnier lines than ...

EXITSTATEMENTS talk debut album, release show, finding beauty in darkness

Nick Olig

May 14, 2024

When we think about how much good music is out there waiting to be discovered, it can be overwhelming. The mind could easily reel. Not to be too pessimistic, but isn’t an endless journey sort of tiring? However...

We assembled a Brewers roster made up of ‘Star Wars’ characters

Nick Olig

April 30, 2024

Not a long time ago in our galaxy, some content came into our view. In a moment of phone distraction, it floated onto our screen like wayward space junk. It’s hard to say where it came from. Might have been an ...

Happy birthday, Bob Uecker

Nick Olig

January 26, 2024

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...

Some (Jordan) Love songs for your situational Packers playlist

Nick Olig

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...

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. ...

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