Does it seem like highlight shows hate the Packers?

I’ve resisted griping about this issue for a long time, since one of the first things they teach you in communications classes is to recognize biases and how they corrupt perceptions. But I’m going to go with it anyway.

I was watching one of NFL Network’s many, many Top 10 shows today — something about the [...]

June 28th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Gene Bosling | 10 comments

The Green Bay Packers' All-Time 53-man roster (part two)

In part one of our series, we gave you the offensive backfield. Boy, was that fun, huh?

For part two of OBOD’s all-time 53-man roster, we’ll fill out the remaining “skill positions.”

(Side note: I put that in quotation marks because I’ve never understood why that term is used. Doesn’t it take skill to play offensive line? How [...]

May 20th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Category: Chris Lempesis, NFL history lessons, Packers News, Notes and Opinons, Special series | 2 comments

The Green Bay Packers' All-Time 53-man roster (part one)

Organizations like to pick nice, even-numbered years to go with all-time teams. Teams will roll these lists out at such grandiose mile-markers as 50 and 75 years.

We’re going a different way here at OBOD.

The Green Bay Packers have been around since 1919 – roughly 91 years – but that isn’t stopping us from selecting OBOD’s All-Time [...]

May 18th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Chris Lempesis, NFL history lessons, Packers News, Notes and Opinons, Special series | 3 comments

So, De Niro is in...but what about the rest of the

Outside of an impending extension for Nick Collins (fingers crossed), there really isn’t much going on with the Green Bay Packers at the moment.

(Yes, I know they signed a receiver who spent most of last season in the Arena League, but I refuse to talk about it, okay?)

That being the case, I’ve decided to have [...]

March 10th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: Chris Lempesis, NFL history lessons | 3 comments