E-Boland & Gang Green

By Tom Rock

Big roar from the crowd at Lambeau about 10 minutes ago. Did Brett Favre walk on the field for warm-ups? Did Paul Hornung parachute into the stadium? No, it started to snow. They love their Packers, they love their cheese and they love their snow here in Green Bay.

Kevan Barlow is inactive for the game, as many of us predicted he might be. That he spent most of the week standing next to Derrick Blaylock at practice was the big clue. He has no special teams value for the Jets, so he might have to pull a McCareins and chip in on kickoffs in order to find his way back onto the field. Other inactives include Blaylock, James Hodgins (B.J. Askew is active), Ryan Riddle, Na’Shan Goddard and C.J. Mosley. Adrian Jones is active after his run-in last weekend. And B.J. Askew, who has missed the last two weeks with a foot injury but is active today, was on the field with his shirt off before the game, strolling the topless tundra.

Green Bay is an odd place. We went to a local tavern here in town that had quite a display. I’m sure there are more politically correct ways of describing it, so I’ll just use the term they used on the signs promoting the event: “Midget Wrestling.”

To be accurate, it was a midget wrestling a woman. More bizarre than the “athletes” were the folks who dropped $120 for a VIP table ringside, then paid $5 between bouts to stand in the square circle and have a Polaroid taken with the wrestler. Come to think of it, the most sane aspect of the evening may have been the men in tights.