Are ya headin’ ta da big game dis weekend? If yer goin, ya better know da language dey speak up dare in Packerland. Ya sure ya betcha!

It happens twice a year in the Midwest, a war between two rival pro football teams. This time it will take place on the frozen tundra, now more like chilly plastic, in the land of cheese makers.

Packerland (Green Bay and the rest of the dairy state) is looking for ways to greet Brett Favre when the Vikings come to Lambeau Field on November 1 to take on the Packers. Personally, I think the Packer fans should all take off their cheese hats, drop their drawers and moon the once-loved-but-not-anymore quarterback.

Growing up a Viking fan, I wasn’t sure who to cheer for during last night’s Monday night football game between and Packers and Vikings. Check out this video from the Associated Press web site of Packer fans smashing a car to “honor” Vikings quarterback and former cheddarhead Brett Favre.

It is a small world…I received an email recently from a player who’s football game I photographed 20 years ago for the Fergus Falls Daily Journal.

Just like a woman, the former Green Bay Packers and New York Jets quarterback, now a wanna-be Minnesota Vikings starter, just can’t make up his mind whether to come out of retirement or not.

Unlike cheddar cheese, quarterbacks do not get better with age!

I was an extremely proud parent after watching a junior varsity baseball game last week at Manchester Memorial high school. It wasn’t the efforts of the players on the field, but what happened before the game started.

It was Christmas last night at Fenway Park in Boston. Or, was that Earth Day, with a St. Patrick’s Day twist? All Brad Penny needed was a little more red on his uniform, and a silver beird to pass as Santa Claus on the mound!

No, I didn’t grow up in the “Wild, wild west,” or a third world nation - just a small town in Wisconsin, where nobody thought twice when seeing a teenager carrying a cased rifle to school. I will always be an athlete of the woods, weather carrying a gun, or a camera.