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Double Team: 10 Green Bay Packers with celebrity lookalikes

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 ...

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