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The city of Boston has the Freedom Trail, a critical network of the crucial sites that led to the American Revolution. And soon the town of Green Bay will have the Packers Heritage Trail.
Get ready to ramp up your history nerdiness.
From Packers.com:
Last night, the Green Bay Packers edged the New Orleans Saints in a game that made us all very happy that we have NFL football back. In that contest, last year’s Super Bowl MVP Aaron Rodgers looked like he might the best player in football. Not just the best QB, but best football player alive.
And as usual, every time Rodgers is on national television, I look at this site’s traffic stats and I see two phrases “Aaron Rodgers Gay” and “Is Aaron Rodgers Gay?” driving more traffic to TSB. During the postseason these search numbers increased, peaking at the Super Bowl of course. Despite the women he’s been linked to, lots of people out there seem to think Rodgers is a homosexual.
I’m telling you now that we will not attempt to answer the question of Rodgers’ sexual orientation here. In fact, I’m not even going to venture a guess about whether Rodgers is straight or gay. What I am going to do is present what we do know about his personal life, and ultimately why none of that has anything to do with why he could be the NFL MVP this season.
The greatest woman skiier in American history, Lindsey Vonn was the subject of media rumors a month or so ago connecting her to Tim Tebow. Then it was connecting her almost-equally-as-hot-as-her sister to Tebow.
None of these relationship rumors panned out, but just minutes ago Vonn posted some pics of her, her sister and Tebow from that golf outing. As well as the Tiger Woods golf outing and last weekend’s Kentucky Derby, to her Facebook page.
Here’s a preview:
It’s never to early. The draft order is utterly random, with consideration to how things might play out given what we know in today’s NFL. Team needs were sometimes, but not always considered, as this is highly subject to change. Let’s get to the 5 Ws of the players making the transition from Saturdays to Sundays.
Six members Iowa Hawkeyes were selected in the 2012 NFL Draft. This marks the third straight year the Hawkeyes have had six players taken.
Offensive lineman Riley Reiff, the third Hawkeye junior to enter the draft in the last three years, was a first round selection of the Detroit Lions, becoming Iowa’s third first round pick in the last three years. Iowa joins Alabama as the only two teams in nation to have a first round selection in each of the last three drafts.
With the 2012 NFL Draft in the books, we can now say the Green Bay Packers made an emphatic attempt to improve the one facet they struggled in the most last season.
General Manager Ted Thompson went away from his “best player on the board,” motto and strictly went after defense.
Not since 2004 had Green Bay started out their draft with three consecutive defensive players. This year, they spent an unheard of six straight picks on the defensive side of the ball and even parted ways with three picks in order to trade up.
Here’s a look and a brief analysis of each of the Packers’ eight draft picks:
Following some of the links here could lead to NSFW photos, just warning you now about that. Check it out, Playboy Playmate Jaime Edmondson in every NFL team’s gear. Call it Playboy’s salute to the greatest sport on the planet. When you’re done enjoying Jaime’s photos, vote for which one you think is the hottest.
Miss January 2010 is a former Miami Dolphins cheerleader and co-creator of the Play by Playmate sports blog on Playboy.com By the way, BIG SHOCKER of news here, Edmondson has a tramp stamp. You can see it prominently in many of her pics. Quite a surprise, isn’t it?
Going into the 2012 NFL Draft, the Green Bay Packers were in desperate need of finding that special player to line up opposite All-Pro Clay Matthews.
With the 28th pick in the Draft, the Packers think they’ve found their guy with the uber-talented defensive end Nick Perry.
It’s only fitting that Perry and Matthews are both alums of USC.
The NFL draft is here! We’ve made some final changes in our last mock, moving quite a few guys around. See you Thursday night!
Go here for the FIRST ROUND of this mock
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With the NFL Draft (or as I see it, Christmas day) later this week, it’s time to start projecting. I’ve finished my positional rankings for the draft. To view those, click the position to see the rankings: DB, DL, LB, OL, WR/TE QB/RB . Now, as for the mock draft — and with all due respect to my colleagues here at TSB — this is how it’ll go down.
Prior to a Week 15 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs (only loss of the regular season), the Green Bay Packers looked like they were on an unstoppable path to back-to-back Super Bowls.
That was until the league’s opposing teams figured out how to slow down the NFL’s premier offense just enough to out-shoot them as the eventual World Champion New York Giants did in a divisional playoff bout in front of a stunned crowd at Lambeau Field.
Even though the loss was shocking to some, it’s not hard to figure out where the Packers went wrong last season. Their defense allowed an NFL-record 4,796 passing yards despite being one of the league leaders in blitzes (a.k.a no pass-rush).
And that is why it’s almost a no-brainer that GM Ted Thompson should and will bolster a 3-4 defense which is badly in need of a pick-me-up after a disappointing season.
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