It needs to play out

I’ve been waiting so long for a legitimate reason to say this – “You guys are a couple of clowns!”

Plenty of others didn’t wait so long, trust me.

Carolyn from Minneapolis, MN

I might be an old fogey, but where is the printable Packers 2024 schedule this year? Been looking all over the website.

You weren’t the only one to ask. It was posted along with everything else. Here’s the link.

Mike, I just learned that you know how to juggle, so we have that in common. My roommate at UW-Platteville taught me how to juggle and I half-jokingly tell people it’s the only thing I learned at college that I still remember. I graduated 40 years ago this month, after all.

30 years ago for me. That’s hard to believe. My dorm neighbor freshman year at Lawrence had attended Barnum & Bailey Clown College. That sounds like a joke but it’s not. It was a real school back then, and he truly was a certified clown. In the good weather, he rode his unicycle around campus to go to class. Never had to lock it in the bike racks because no one else knew how to ride one, so who was gonna steal it?

Dear Wes, I hate to be a stickler (actually I do) but ATMR, WIC (which is correct) the Packers played what I believe was the first Thanksgiving Day game ever at Hagemeister Park against the Stambaugh Miners on Nov. 25, 1920. I know this because in my high school in Stambaugh was the game ball signed by the Packer players in a display case. A proud moment for a town which is now Iron River in the UP of Michigan.

You are correct. The Packers also played at home on Thanksgiving in 1922 against the Duluth Kelleys, but both the ’20 and ’22 holiday games were non-league affairs so they aren’t in any official NFL records. There was no league in ’20, and the ’22 game didn’t count in the standings.

The Packers also had back-to-back Thursday games in 2007. We won at Detroit on Thanksgiving, then lost to Dallas in the game that Favre got hurt and Rodgers came in and lit it up. Barely anyone could watch that Dallas game because it was on NFL Network and access was way more restrictive back then, and it was a matchup of 10-1 teams! Spoff, I think you omitted the 2007 Thursday double from your article to see if someone would write in. Did I call your bluff?

Not exactly. I specifically referenced back-to-back Thursday NIGHT games in my schedule piece, focusing on ’15. The ’07…