As I search the web for NY media coverage of Brett, it strikes me that while this is big news in football circles, the top daily sports stories in NY are about the Yankees and Mets and the Olympics. In Wisconsin we have the Pack and then some colleges but New Yawkers have two major teams in every major sport. The Jets and the Giants, Yankees & Mets, Rangers and islanders (and even a 3rd team in Buffalo),plus basketballs Knicks and Nets(NJ). Then there are second tier sports that attract millions of fans annually such as Horse Racing, Indoor Soccer, Arena Football all before you get to the college level sports. Sports reporters don't tend to worship any player and delight in knocking them all down a peg or two.

What this all means is that in NY, there are teams with stand-out players, but in Wiscosnin it was Brett and the Packers. The player and then the team. I wonder how he'll handle going from "God" status to "Another Great Player" status.. It is interesting to see the mentions of punishment laps he's had to run for fumbling a snap or throwing a pick. He never had to do that in Green Bay. I also chuckled when at the lunch break of his first practice in NY he told a reporter he was a bit tired, and in Green Bay he'd have just gone home, but as a Jet he is expected at all practices.

I have no doubt he'll learn the plays, learn the players names and have some really great games. What I don't know is how he'll personally handle the small fish in a big pond atmosphere.

I wish he had just gone out on top and stayed retired. My guess is by next year, he'll have wished the same thing.

Brett, you can always come home to Green Bay, we'll leave the lights on for ya!

I have to admit that the Giants Defeat of the Patriots will be one of the best Superbowls ever.. My anger at the Giants for stealing the NFC Championship from the pack started to fade early in the first quarter as I got involved in the nailbiter of a game. I soon found myself rooting them on, but at the same time wanting to see a perfect season by the Pats just because it would be good for the sport.

In the end, the Giants are truly the deserving Champs and my consolation is that we did get beat by the best.

Too bad Brett is refusing AGAIN to play in the Pro Bowl.. Maybe they should just stop naming him to the team if he isn't going to play for the fans. I guess it's on to NASCAR until next August.

I can't hardly wait for this Sunday.. The Pack is finally Back and there is no stopping us.. Nice frozen day forecasted and all systems are go.. I'm feeling the Superbowl in our future..

GO PACK GO!

GREEN & GOLD!

Anybody got any thoughts on the score??

You may see the announcement over the next few days that WFXS is providing Charter Cable with an HD feed to be placed on channel 785 on Charter's Digital Cable.. Now viewers with a HD set top box and HD TV set can watch WFXS's great shows and sports in HD. (Click Here For Press Release). 

Since this makes HD available to roughly half of our viewing market, I know we will have some unhappy people who think we are somehow being unfair or discriminatory. This is a legal and technical issue that makes the feed to Charter possible while we work diligently through the FCC process to build out our broadcast HD operation. I have put together a lengthy Q & A to answer all the many questions and complaints. Click here to See Q & A..

For those of you who are Vikings fans (both in and out of the closet), the NFL in their wisdom has again snubbed us.. They have assigned us the Cowboys again, even though there is no drama or excitement left as to home field advantage.

Before you call or write to complain to me, "I Do Not Make These Decisions!".. The NFL likes Dallas more than any of our other regioanl teams. Plain & simple, the NFL wants to make them KINGS.

Also, did you see the latest on the NFL network?? The last game of thier schedule is now also being broadcast on both CBS & NBC.. Seems the two east-coast teams fans made enough noise about not seeing the game that the politicians threatened the NFL's wallet, so they caved.. Too bad we're not that strong here in Wisconsin.

I like your new site.. I think your community section could be cool if you promote it well and get people involved.. Your old forums were not well maintained..

I felt the need to comment on both the FOX-GM's and the Pack4ever statements about the NFL Network and the missing Packer games.. I would have to agree that the NFL seems destined to make us pay through the nose to watch our team. While I would love to believe the NFL that Charter should add it to thier basic tier and not charge us, that's a pretty lame argument since the NFL wants to be paid about $80,000 a month by Charter.. Add to that the local taxes and a profit margin for Charter, and Wausau area fans would be shelling out over $100,000 a month for 12 months to watch the NFL Network.

Some of my very dear friends are upset because they are "stock holders" of the Pack.. And now the team wants them to pay again.. What happened to the loyalty to the fans who have supported this team through a lot more bad times than good.. Our team has betrayed us..

I've heard a lot of griping about the NFL's battle with Charter over carriage of the NFL network, and I'm a bit suprised at how few people seem to really see the bigger picture in this debate.

Nobody seems to argue the fact that there is nothing on the NFL Network to care about except the one Packer game per year. Nobody would be willing to pay every month to see the old archived NFL films stock or the retreads of past coaches show.. And there lies the problem. The entire cost to Charter, and in reality to you and me, is the annual cost compared to one three hour game per year. Is that game worth $20 to you? $40?  If so, then if they show 8 games next year, would you be willing to pay $160  to $320 more for your Cable TV. How does that compute you might ask?? Well simply put, to carry all the NFL games across the country on NFL owned networks, it would take atleast 8 networks, since that is how many games are played at noon each Sunday.  If you answer yes, that you are willing to pay the NFL for all those channels so you never miss a packer game, then call the NFL and tell them to let Charter add it to a sports tier and you sign up at $320/year. BUT, the NFL knows that viewers are not willing to pay those types of prices for any sports channel, so instead they decided to force every TV viewer in the country to pay them rather than just those who would buy NFL network as a stand alone channel.

Apparently the NFL is not happy with the $2.4 Billion, yes Billion with a "B" that FOX, CBS, NBC and ESPN already pay them every year. The NFL greedily wants more, and the only way to accomplish that is to turn the NFL into a forced pay per view service where the NFL provides maybe different 8 channels of games each Sunday and those channels would be filled with NFL historical film garbage the rest of the time.. No more free TV sports.. The NFL owns the teams, the games and then eventually the networks you watch them on. You will someday pay them for 8 channels, 365 days a year, to watch your favorite team play 16 games per season.

As a broadcaster, I'm no fan of the cable industry, since the 4 major networks  (FOX, NBC, ABC & CBS) together are 75% of a cable subscribers actual TV viewing yet we are the only channels on your cable lineup that Charter does not pay for.  If you think your cable or sattelite bills are high now, just wait and see what happens if the NFL wins this fight. Think NASCAR, Baseball, Basketball, College sports, Golf.. No more Free Sports on TV.. Every league would have an annual fee paid to them but collected by Charter to make cable the bad guys.. Charter becomes the Tax-Collector for the bigwigs who own the teams.