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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The grudge matches are over. In the first two weeks of this season the Green Bay Packers were forced to confront teams that directly stopped Super Bowls in 2017 and 2015. Next on the docket is an obscure fra...