I will fucking rock your soul

If we have any readers left, and understandably that is doubtful, said readers will be wondering just what took so long? The last post on this site is one regarding the NFC championship game, the one where the evil big city won and the noble little town lost. Which is an injustice. Low on the spectrum, but still, an injustice.

So I'm back. If you're curious as to why there has been such a silence. And really, it was a silence. Months and months of nothing. NFL draft? Nothing. Favre retiring? Nothing. Favre unretiring? Nothing. So I understand if you're sitting there wondering just what kind of Packer fan blows this stuff off. So here's my answer, take it for what you will.

I just don't care that much about the off season. It's not that I think the acquisition of new players isn't newsworthy. It is. The problem is that I have no idea whether the new players are any good. Which in a way is fine, I mean, I'm just a fan. Maybe an idiot fan at that. The issue is that the ubernerds of NFL scoutery have no fucking idea either. None. They pretend they do - and I don't blame them for this - because their six figure salaries and spiffy suits depend on it, but they know exactly what you know, which is nothing.

So I don't care. Not because it's not important, just because no one knows how important it will be. Dr. Z from SI.com recently noted that he has picked the Vikings to win the Super Bowl. I'd like to mock him (and I will) but really what's the point? If he's right he gets to lord that all over town. If he's wrong no one remembers. So what's the big deal? It's not going out on a limb if no one remembers there's a fucking tree, right? It should be noted however that the Vikings still employ an idiot head coach. A man who didn't get the memo indicating that it wasn't JUST the porn stache that ladies loved about Magnum PI, it was the full head of hair and lack of 14-18 career records.

I love Favre. Love him. To the point where I'm offended if my wife doesn't want to wear the Favre jersey I got for her. Which is all sorts of creepy if you break it down, which thankfully we will not do here. But still, I love the guy. Writing about his retirement? No. What am I going to add? SI and ESPN and NFL.com and so many other blogs like bratsnbeer are giving us that info.

I realize there are 100 different sites that will happily provide you with their personal insight, even if that insight is the equivalent of seamonkeys. Vaguely interesting to a 10 year old, but kind of embarrassing for anyone with a driver's license. I'm not really knocking them (ok, I am) but really, we don't need everyone's opinion. I love the guy, you love the guy, do we really need to talk about how much you and me and your cousin all loved the guy to validate his career? I say no.

So that brings us to this post. I'll be knocking out stuff on things that matter. This will generally be about the Packers, but it won't only be about the Packers. Sometimes what matters is new music (seriously, go buy "Stay Positive" from The Hold Steady), sometimes it's about amazing books ("Guns, Germs and Steel" is impossibly cool, check out the doc if you can't handle the booklearnin') and sometimes it's just about my dog acting like the Chuckles he is. I hope you're ok with that. I've tried a hundred different ideas to make this site relevant year-round and this is all I've got. So there it is. Love ya guys, thanks for stopping by, we'll be posting regularly.