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11 Wisconsin professional athletes who changed their jersey number

March 14, 2018

Over the weekend, the Milwaukee Bucks signed Brandon Jennings to a 10-day contract. The move came after the past-prime guard proved himself over a seven-game stint with the Wisconsin Herd. His second stop with ...

Read Before Kickoff, Week 17: Packers vs. Lions

Nik Kovac

December 29, 2017

When the 7-8 Green Bay Packers travel to the 8-7 Detroit Lions this New Year’s Eve, it will be the last calendar day of 2017 and the last day of both teams’ 2017 seasons. The Lions were in the hunt longer, not...

Read Before Kickoff, Week 16: Packers vs. Vikings

Nik Kovac

December 22, 2017

Ten weeks ago the Packers were 4-1, Aaron Rodgers was the odds-on MVP favorite, and the 3-2 Vikings had, in the two weeks prior, lost at home to the Detroit Lions, then barely survived the limping Chicago Bears...

Read Before Kickoff, Week 15: Packers vs. Panthers

Nik Kovac

December 15, 2017

In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from God swept over the face of the waters… God saw everything...

Read Before Kickoff, Week 14: Packers vs. Browns

Nik Kovac

December 8, 2017

Sunday noon on the south shore of Lake Erie will be Brett Hundley’s Super Bowl. And he knows it. If he loses this one game, then Aaron probably won't be able to win the next seven (a loss drops our likelihoo...

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...

Read Before Kickoff, Week 13: Packers vs. Buccaneers

Nik Kovac

December 1, 2017

We didn't go to Pittsburgh to beat the spread. We went there to beat the Steelers Failure in that task now means even five straight victories might not be enough. Here is the stark math: with five games to g...

Read Before Kickoff, Week 12: Packers vs. Steelers

Nik Kovac

November 24, 2017

After eleven weeks of football, the Pittsburgh Steelers are a top three team, and the Green Bay Packers are in free fall. Such is the current wisdom. Las Vegas predicts this Sunday night fight will only b...

Read Before Kickoff, Week 11: Packers vs. Ravens

Nik Kovac

November 17, 2017

There was never going to be a good time for Brett Hundley to start his football career in Green Bay. From the moment he was drafted, his purpose was to look good in training camp so that he could be traded afte...

The 23 best (and “wurst”) Packers novelty songs of all time

Tyler Maas

November 13, 2017

Yesterday, the Brett Hundley-led Green Bay Packers narrowly edged out Mitchell Trubisky's Chicago Bears in a rainy affair at Soldier Field. The ugly 23-16 win secured a season sweep for Green Bay in the longtim...

Read Before Kickoff, Week 10: Packers vs. Bears

Nik Kovac

November 10, 2017

Watch the game at Linneman's this Sunday at noon. Nik and Keith will be calling all the action on the stage, next to a nine-foot screen. There will be enough chili and beer to go around. On his way to the Il...

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. ...

Read Before Kickoff, Week 9: Packers vs. Lions

Nik Kovac

November 3, 2017

Next up for the Green Bay Packers is the one divisional opponent who has not broken our quarterback's collar bone. It's hard to hate these Detroit Lions. Even back when Ndamukong Suh was a Lion and was stomp...

Pixelated and overrated: 11 Packers who were better in video games than in real life

Milwaukee Record Staff

October 26, 2017

With the Packers on bye this week, Sunday could be tough for some fans to get through. There's a ton of bullshit things you can do this weekend, but if you find yourself in desperate need to see some, any, repr...

25 bullshit things you can do during the Packers bye

Tyler Maas

October 24, 2017

With Aaron Rodgers potentially out for the remainder of the season and the Brett Hundley-led Packers in a two-game slide, both the team and its fans could use a break. The disappointing play of late doesn't mak...

Read Before Kickoff, Week 7: Packers vs. Saints

Nik Kovac

October 20, 2017

The four times that Mike McCarthy has faced a Sean Payton offense since they both started head coaching in 2006, the Packers have given up 34, 51, 34, and 44 points. In one of those games, Aaron Rodgers and Ran...

Every player named Aaron in Green Bay Packers history, ranked

Tyler Maas

October 17, 2017

The injury Aaron Rodgers sustained Sunday afternoon not only left the Packers without their best player for the remainder of the year and put the team's postseason fate in question, it also left Green Bay with ...

Read Before Kickoff, Week 6: Packers vs. Vikings

Nik Kovac

October 13, 2017

As the Packers make their second journey to the evil, bird-killing, Darth Vader helmet-shaped monument to taxpayer plunder, it might be worth remembering the snowstorm that led to the lowering of the prior roof...

The 5 Packers jerseys you’ll meet in Goodwill

Tyler Maas

October 12, 2017

Halloween is just around the corner, which means many of you will soon find yourself in a thrift store to search of a costume. Wisconsin is presently also in the midst of Packers fever, as Green Bay is off to a...

Read Before Kickoff, Week 5: Packers vs. Cowboys

Nik Kovac

October 6, 2017

For the fourth time in five games, a retired Dallas Cowboy quarterback will be providing color commentary for the national TV broadcast of a Packer game. Some of you are claiming that Tony Romo wasn't so bad th...

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