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fantasy football tips - part 2
Waiver Scavenger
Since it’s impossible to predict 100% what will happen in a given fantasy football season, it’s also impossible to conduct a pre-season fantasy draft that will reflect 100% of what the upcoming NFL season has in store. What...
Got Golf Information Overload?
You’ve come home from work dead tired. You grab the mail on your way in and notice your new copy of your favorite golfing magazine is in the pile. It puts a slight smile on your face as a picture of you on a couch with an adult beverage suddenly...
How To Choose The Right Wrestling Shoes
A Quick History Lesson About The Sport of Wrestling
Wrestling is the world's oldest sport. Evidence of wrestling can
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Olympic wrestling match was recorded in 708 BC. The...
Lake Fishing Techniques
Tips on Lake Fishing for a Great Outdoor Experience
For many years, lake fish have been classified under three
general heads: game fish, food fish, and forage or bait fish.
The bass, trout, pike, pickerel, muskellunge, pike perch,...
Lose Weight Faster With High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT)
The one of the latest buzzwords in fitness and weight loss
circles is High Intensity Interval Training or HIIT. This method
of exercise has the potential to allow an exerciser to lose
weight faster that any other form of "aerobic"...
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Why Packer Fans Wear Cheese Hats
I was born and raised in Wisconsin, but actually have lived most
of my life in Minnesota - so, even though technically I could
say I'm from Minnesota just from percentage of life lived in
that location, I fear I'm forever stained as being from
Wisconsin. Our State quarter came out and the bas relief picture
on the reverse had a picture of a dairy cow looking adoringly at
a huge wedge of cheese. Yes. That is the image that most and
best describes who we are and exactly what we do.
You can see, then, how it would make so much sense that the
Packers would have so much pride thrown their way by us. Sure,
they haven't been hot this season, at all. Real embarassing as a
matter of fact. But their performance in any given year is the
point so much as them being a football team in Wisconsin.
Period. That's something, and if we all can't take much pride in
how they play on the field they are the one and only team that
is actually owned by the people who live in that area and not
some out-of-state whiney billionaire who cries if a half billion
dollar stadium isn't built for him at taxpayer expense, so he
can make money and take it back out of the state that built him
that stadium.
I'm thinking of the Vikings (Vi-QUEENS here in Wisconsin) last
owner Red McCombs. They got sold to somebody else now who's
actually talking of building his own stadium, but I'm sure
somewhere down the line he'll try and stick-up Minnesota for a
hundred mil or so and call it a bargain. And while the Vikings
have been to the Super Bowl four times, they've lost every
single time, which is how you always win a sports argument with
a Minnesota fan. You just remind them that their team will choke
and break their hearts. They'll get quiet then, look down at the
ground and say sadly: "Yeah. You're
right."
Border rivalry's are pretty silly, generally, because they're
based on nothing more than random geography and nothing
important, like in the past when the people of Wisconsin invaded
their state and enslaved all the Minnesotans and made them work
in our cheese mines. As an example. That didn't really happen.
But if it did, then it would make more sense for them to hate
the packers like they do. Personally, I have less reason to
participate in border rivalries like this since I've lived
almost equally on both sides of that border.
Wisconsin people call Minnesotans 'Mud Ducks' (I don't know why)
and they call us 'Cheese Heads' because of our production of
cheese and putting it on our heads makes it insulting. Actually,
I think Minnesota's surpassed Wisconsin as far as their number
of total cows, so if you ask me they should be the real cheese
heads. But, you know, they don't have cheese on their coins, so
maybe it's fairer to call us that rather than them.
The cheese hats came about - I believe - as a way to respond to
an insulting term and take ownership of it. That would be much
the same way that gay people started taking the term 'Queer' and
using it openly and unashamedly for themselves. It took a lot of
the power and the sting out of it, and a pejorative doesn't work
so well when your subject refuses to be shamed by it. The
problem with the cheese head hats, though, is the very act of
putting something that is made to resemble a huge wedge of
cheese is in itself very undignified and making yourself look
even stupider in no way gives you ownership of the insult. It
kind of adds to it.
About the author:
Steve Sommers is the author of Breakfast with the Antichrist.
Visit his Website at http://www.breakfastwiththeantichrist.com
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