You're Welcome Saskatchewan...

Well, we did it again. That's right. Yet another championship under the Peterson's proverbial belt. In case you missed it, and I figure most of you in the states did, last night the Saskatchewan Roughriders went to Toronto, played the Winnipeg Blue Bombers and won the Grey Cup. Now most people would say, "Chris, what the hell are you talking about YOU did it again?" Well, if you would just shut up and listen to me I will tell you.

It seems that every time the Peterson clan makes a move, the local team wins a championship. So it has nothing to do with their team, skill, or management. It has everything to do with the location of my stuff. Let's see, where do I start.

Most might think that it all starts in Green Bay, well, I beg to differ. When we moved to Des Moines, shortly after we got there the Des Moine Suckaneers won the Gold Cup. The National Junior A championship. I believe the Iowa Barnstormers under the grocery bagging Kurt Warner won the AFL championship (under coach John Gregory). So that was stop number one.

Stop number two was the holy land. Green Bay Wisconsin. That was around 1995-96. We all know that at that time Brett Favre was in his second year of MVP'n and he led the team to Super Bowl 31 and the world championship. Now you playa hatin' queen fans will point out that that is when he was hooked on vicodin. Wrongo, moosebreath, that is when he KICKED vicodin and the rest of the NFL's ass.

Also whilst the Peterson's were in Green Bay the Gamblers, of the USHL junior A hockey, won two Gold Cup National Championships under Coach Don Granato. Lead in goal by TT vetran Ty Conklin. Oh and the baddest D man to ever skate on USHL ice, Jeff 'give 'em the' Finger. Nice. Oh and an also ran was the Arena Football team the Green Bay Bombers who won the title in 98.

Oh, but it did not stop there. We then travelled north to Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Let's see, the Eskischmos won two Grey Cups while we were there. The AAA team the Edmonton Trappers won the championship and the U of A Golden Bears won many hockey championships. The Oilers made a run at the Stanley Cup but came up one period short of winning it. Oh, the junior football team, the Huskies, won a national championship also.

Which brings us to today. The Saskatchewan Roughriders won the Grey Cup last night in Toronto. It was awesome. We spent the day at the Davis' and watched the game. Lots of kids, lots of food, and a great game.

Shortly after the game we all piled in the car and went downtown to witness the chaos on Albert Street. McKenna and Dakota went also. Dakota watched it all from her car seat and Donna and McKenna got out and high fived all the crazy Rider fans in their cars driving up and down Albert. Well, there wasn't much driving just a lot of sitting in traffic. Albert Street runs the length of Regina and it was bumper to bumper from North to South. Amazing. Fireworks, honking, cheering, and tons of open containers. Of course as the leader of TundraTalk Nation I took my camera to document the proceedings. Here it is, enjoy...


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Dallas is goin down...

Adrian Peterson who?

Hell ya!! Thanks to the Packers 34-0 win on Sunday, Mr. Dahl, of the Minneapple Dahls, now owes me two 24's of Leinies. NICE!!! That game was totally sweet. Even better I was in Bismarck on Sunday and it sure was nice to be shopping around in the city and listen to all those queen fans whine and complain about how crappy their team is. Whilst I was at Target I heard at least twenty of them crying and whining.

Even better, whilst I was at Grizzly's eating a fine lunch and watching said game, this couple came into the place and asked the bartender to change the channel from the game and the dude told the woman that he couldn't because there was some of us watching it. She gave me a dirty look and said, "Oh, I bet it was HIM!" and pointed at me (because I was flying the colors, as I always do on game day). I just smiled and tipped my glass at her. Her husband mumbled something under his breath about the Packers and buried his face in the menu. Just like a queen fan to turn off the game. If the Pack were down like that, there is no way in hell I would turn the game off. Stupid queen fan. I just cheered louder from then on every time Favre threw a TD.

I was so proud of McKenna when she pointed to the kid with the randy moss jersey and said very loud "Daddy, we don't like the purple team. They are bad." I almost shed a man tear on the spot. When ever we went into a store selling queen jersey's she was under orders to take the Packer gear and put it in front of it. She is a good kid. So good I rewarded her with a gold Favre jersey.

Shane Keller, of the LA Kellers, sent me this note...

Hi Chris,

I am the ultimate glutton for punishment. I am watching the Viking-packer game and simo perusing Tundra Talk. The mental anguish is near unbearable.

Anyhow, I was reading Martys' fire report. I didn't know he lives in Canyon Country. I'm willing to bet I could throw a rock and hit his house on my commute to work (14 to the 5 to the 405). I'm not exactly sure where he shot the video from, is he somewhere off of Via Princessa (spelling??). My brother-in-law lives in Canyon Country right below the water tower where the fire quickly spread to the day it started (my brother in law is on Shan-gri-la up the hill off of Soledad Canyon Road).

We were at his house that Sunday when the fires started and no, I was not the kid playing with matches that started the fire. We left his house at 5:00 P.M and by 9:00 he and his family were evacuated. Thankfully they did not lose their house, but it came right down to their neighbors back yard. Small world.......

I read an article in the Hazen Star (yes, I still get it and love it, a great taste of home). Their was a nice article on Nick Chase and his bust of a nation wide illeagal imigrent ring..OH GOD THE PACK JUST GOT ANOTHER TOUCHDOWN...F#%K now fieldgoal...27-0 I'm 2 minutes from shutting off the game and starting my yardwork chores of the day :-( Oh my God Fox just left the Viking-Pack game and went to the Eagles-Skins ha ha.

At any rate, back to Nick, that is so awesome. Perhaps he might arrange to have the Feds meet and arrest you at the Canada/North dakota border for being the ringleader of an elaborate International Dakota Kid Sunflower Seeds smuggling ring? Be very careful my friend, very careful.

Take care,
Shane

P.S. The fart story was awesome LOL

Yup, Marty lives right off of Via Princessa. No the street name does not relate to his orientation. He is a Packerfan so no princess there. Here Marty's reply...

Shane is right.. his brother's house is in the video that I shot.. The development is in the right hand corner of the video that I shot.. The group of houses that is just about straight back over my back wall - up on the opposing ridge.

Nick Chase, of the "Plenty Bushie Enough" Fargo Federal prosecutors office, has quite the rep for kicking criminal ass. He is a member of the TT Nation from day one. We are all proud of his accomplishments. CLICK HERE to read about his accomplishments.

Oh, and yes I am very careful when I cross the border with all my contraband. No problems this weekend crossing with my four 24's of Leinies, 8 boxes of PB Cap'n Crunch, and 4 bags of Funyuns. We did have to wait almost two hours to cross though. Lots of Canadians coming down to take advantage of the US money being of the Monopoly value. As did I.


Steve Iverson, of the Moorehead Ivy's, sent me this joke...

Little David was in his 5th grade class when the teacher asked the
children what their fathers did for a living.

All the typical answers came up -- fireman, policeman, salesman, etc.
David was being uncharacteristically quiet and so the teacher asked him
about his father. "My father's an exotic dancer in a gay cabaret and takes off all
his clothes in front of other men. Sometimes, if the offer's really good, he'll go out to the alley with some guy and make love with him for money."

The teacher, obviously shaken by this statement, hurriedly set the other children to work on some coloring, and took Little David aside to ask
him, "Is that really true about your father?"

"No," said David, "He plays for the Minnesota Vikings, but I was too
embarrassed to say that in front of the other kids."

That is a classic. Love that joke. Speaking of a joke, the queens lost Adrian Peterson after he scorched the Pack for what 70 yards. He sucks.

CLICK HERE to read how the queens fans are off the bandwagon. Nice. CLICK HERE to read about how the Packers are now Americas Team. The writer who wrote it I believe covered the Oilers on the Stanley Cup run. I spoke to her on occasion during that time. She was pretty cool, obviously because she knows the Packers rule.

Of course thank you again to PackerPalace Dot Com for the pics and the logos.

Once again, because it is easy...

Courtesy of PackerPalace dot com.

A Minnesota Viking family of football supporters headed out one Saturday to do their Christmas shopping. While in the sports shop the son picks up a Packer jersey and says to his older sister, "I've decided to become a Packer fan and I would like this for Christmas".

His big sister is outraged by this and promptly whacks him round the head and says, "Go talk to mother". Off goes the little lad with the Packer jersey in hand and finds his mother. "Mom?" "Yes son?" "I've decided I'm going to be a Packer fan and I would like this jersey for Christmas". The mother is outraged at this, promptly whacks him around the head and says, "Go talk to your father!"

Off he goes with the Packer jersey in hand and finds his father. "Dad?" "Yes son?" "I've decided I'm going to be a Packer fan and I would like this jersey for Christmas". The father is outraged and promptly whacks his son around the head and says, "No son of mine is ever going to be seen in THAT!"

About half an hour later they're all back in the car and heading towards home. The father turns to his son and says "Son, I hope you've learned something today?" The son says, "Yes, Dad, I have." "Good son, what is it?" The son replies, "I've only been a Packer fan for an hour and I already hate you Viking bastards."

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!!!

STRIKE!!! No not me this time...

Once again, the news coming out of Los Angeles is big. At least the networks think it is a big deal so they talk about it a lot. Last week it was the fires, this week a strike. So who does TundraTalk go to for any news that is huge in La La Land? That's right Marty Frey. I sent him a note yesterday to see if there were strikers outside his building and if he could send me pics, and yes, he did.

We are big time here at TundraTalk. We have bureaus all over the world. We have a bureau in Edmonton, Regina, Minneapple, Seattle, Fargo, Bismarck, Garrison, Florida, of course Wisconsin, and well, you name it we got it.

So lets do it like the big timers....NOW lets send it out to our Hollyweird Bureau, with Marty Frey to report on the strike that is affecting EVERYONE's TV set. What are you seeing where you are at? What is the feeling on the lines at NBC?...

Oh yeah.. good times.. Only it's not like when you were doing it.. The two groups involved in this strike have plenty of money and blame to go around on both sides. The issues here are very different and the people who are really getting hurt by this are the people who work on the shows.. The carpenters, Electricians, stagehands and all the companies that make their livelihood around the production of TV shows and movies. The people who can least afford this - are the ones that will be most affected.

Here are some pics for you..

Jay Leno has stopped by for the last two days to drop off doughnuts for the striking writers.. They aren't neccessarily his writers as the WGA was smart enough to take Warner Bros. writers and have them striking over here and take our guys and have them in front of the Warner Bros. lot. That way it's not personal with the people you have to work with. Some other wacky stuff going on.. A man dressed as a giant yellow taco tried to interview some of the strikers - he left rather abruptly.

The Burbank cops stop by every once and a while.. I don't think they really are here to deal with any strikers getting out of hand as they are the most polite strikers I have ever seen. The cops pull up and chat for a minute - maybe hand out a couple bottles of water and then head on over to another lot. These guys aren't the most dedicated strikers - they show up about 9 AM - knock off around Noon for lunch. Back by 2 pm and then they are cleared out by 5 pm every day.. I'm in by 8 AM and I don't leave until at least 7 pm at night so I don't really have any interaction with them. I'm thinking of maybe going on strike as the hours are better.

NBC Studios has had to lay off a bunch of my friends who normally work on The Tonight Show starting today. Again - those are the people who are going to be hurt by this - not the studios or the writers.

Back to you Chris....



Sweet report Marty. Nice work. Yup it sounds completely different from my strike. Goons, scabs, and a lot of swearing on mine. Yeah, good times. I just hope the people who got laid off during this dispute will get thier jobs back. Strikes are bad most everybody involved.

Good luck and I hope that this ends sooner rather than Later.


NEXT: It is viqueen week again so any of you queen fans feel lucky, bring it!!!! The Pack are 7-1 and on a roll. Was that sweet on Monday night or what? The game against the Chefs was equally as awesome. Number Four is truly on a mission this year and I am glad to be along on the ride.

ALSO:

I also added this to my car this week. That's right, I am down. I am the most dedicated Pack fan around. Everywhere I go now people know not to mess with me. All those queen fans, step aside. Don't F with that guy. He is down with the Pack. Thank you, and Good Night Now!!!!

I will leave you with a joke courtesy of the PackerPalace dot com. Enjoy.....

Wisconsin Temperature Conversion Chart...

60 above - Floridians wear coats, gloves and woolly hats. Wisconsin people sunbathe.

50 above - New Yorkers try to turn on the heat. Wisconsin people plant gardens.

40 above - Italian cars won't start. Wisconsin people drive with the windows down.

32 above - Distilled water freezes. Lake Michigan's water gets thicker.

20 above - Californians shiver uncontrollably. Wisconsin people have the last cookout before it gets cold.

15 above - New York landlords finally turn on the heat. Wisconsin people throw on a sweatshirt.

0 - Californians fly away to Mexico. Wisconsin people lick a flagpole.

20 below - People in Miami cease to exist. Wisconsin people get out their winter coats.

40 below - Hollywood disintegrates. Wisconsin's Girl Scouts begin selling cookies door to door.

60 below - Polar bears begin to evacuate Antarctica. Wisconsin's Boy Scouts postpone "Winter Survival" classes until it gets cold enough.

80 below - Mt. St. Helen's freezes. Wisconsin people rent some videos.

100 below - Santa Claus abandons the North Pole. Wisconsin people get frustrated when they can't thaw the keg.

297 below - Microbial life survives on dairy products. Wisconsin cows complain of farmers with cold hands.

460 below - ALL atomic motion stops. Wisconsin people start saying "Cold 'nuff for ya?"

500 below - Hell freezes over. The Minnesota Vikings finally win the Super Bowl.