The big game

Add comment January 20th, 2008

Pre-game show is on. That means we’re getting close. I can barely stand it. I am not sure I have ever been as excited for a game as I am now. There’s a lot on the line, mostly the Super Bowl. (And, of course, there’s that bet I made with that Giants fan.)

Go Pack!

Ready for Sunday (grrr)

5 comments January 18th, 2008

Yeah. It’s a little creepy, but this is what you get when you fool around during a photo shoot. The photographer is bound to capture something embarrassing. This is me practicing my best fierce face. Not really working for me.

Register Star photog Alan Leon spent about 30 minutes with Thomas Bona and me to get the perfect shot for a promo in Sunday’s newspaper. Thomas (or T-Bone as we like to call him in the newsroom) challenged me to a blog off.

Thomas, a native New Yorker and Giants fan, will battle me, a lifelong cheesehead who has a not-so-secret crush on No. 4, on this blog during the Giants-Packers game.

If the Giants win, I have to buy Thomas cheese — the really good stuff from Wisconsin. If the Packers win (or should I say when the Pack wins), Thomas will have some pastrami shipped from New York. Yummy. I can already taste it.

Politicians place bets

2 comments January 17th, 2008

The governor of Wisconsin is betting the govs of New York and New Jersey (the Giants play in N.J.) that the Packers (of course) will win Sunday’s game. Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle is offering up brats (well, duh). New Jersey Gov. Jon S. Corzine would give up tomatoes. And New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer would fork over pastrami.

The mayors of Green Bay (Jim Schmitt) and New York City (Michael Bloomberg) are wagering cheese spread, and strip steak and chocolate, respectively.

Game on.