Packers Number One, AGAIN...

Once again the Packers have come out on top again. This time Sports Illustrated did a survey on the Best NFL Fan experience. N surprise, the Packers and Lambeau came out on top. To read the survey CLICK HERE. The Packers rated highest in pretty much everything from parking to atmosphere. Their description of the tailgating is dead on. "You can smell the brats from miles away" at a tailgate that has "so many grills going it must be the cause of global warming." You ain't kidding you can smell the brats. That is one of the things I miss the most. Getting near the stadium on game day and smelling all those grills going. Floyd Fairweather, of the Minot Humanities teaching Fairweather's, once told me he could "smell the brats all the way in Sheboygan" on game day. The other nice thing is they have big pits for people to put their hot coals at the end of the game. Those things will still be steaming on Wednesday after the game.

They also mentioned my favorite beer in the rating. Of course, what would a day in Wisconsin be without beer, something the Leinie Lodge offers with "lots of very cool Wisconsin beers for about the same price as regular domestics." That's right, I am going to Minot this weekend and I am going to for sure pick up some Leinies. So I can watch the Pack AND sip a nice brew from the homeland. Nice.

Where do other teams rank? Well the Bears clock in at 20. I have tailgated at Soldier Field. It was a good time, but we were about a mile from the stadium in a lot that had more people parking for work than tailgating. Donnelly's Bengals were 19. Need to work on that. The one that I am most happy about, is the queens. That crappy purple team that we all love to hate comes in at second to last. That's right, their tailgate experience is usually as bad as their team. Well what do you expect from grown men wearing braids and purple.

So to summaraize...Packers good, really good. Bears, Bengals, and queens, bad, really bad. If you want to have the best NFL experience you can get, go to God's country, Wisconsin. If you can score yourself some duckats, have yourself a Brat, drink a few fine Wisconsin brews, watch Brett Favre win, and go home happy.

Plus while you are there you can stop over at the Wisconsin Cheese exchange and get some of the best cheese you will ever taste. I know the last time I was there I brought a ton home.

Oh, if you click on the picture up at the top of Lambeau, you will notice that Brett autographed it. I have that pic, not autographed of course, but if you look closely to the lower left hand corner. On the field in the corner of the endzone, there is an extremely cool and good looking guy. He is wearing a vest. Yup, that's me. So there is a website where you can buy an autographed Brett Favre picture of me. Nice.

Go Pack Go!!!