Random notes: February 7, 2011.

I know I’m “rooting for laundry”, but I have a certain fondness for the Green Bay Packers. A major reason for that is their unique ownership structure. The Packers are a public corporation, with stock and everything. (The NFL will not allow any other team to adopt this ownership structure; the Packers are grandfathered in. This is the kind of behavior by the NFL that would make me want my congressman to start asking questions, if I believed in that sort of thing.) Anyway, here’s a good New Yorker piece that explains how the Packers work in more detail. And yes, my black little heart is filled with delight today. (Hattip: Gruber.)

We have previously mentioned the death of General Vang Pao, and the question of whether he would be buried at Arlington. The answer to that question was “no”; the Pentagon turned down the family’s request. Mark Arax has a good piece in the NYT about the General’s funeral.

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3 Responses to “Random notes: February 7, 2011.”

  1. Brian says:
    February 7, 2011 at 12:02 pm

    The NFL will not allow any other team to adopt this ownership structure;

    I’d wondered why no other teams had the same setup.

    They do get the love up here, that’s for sure. The local McDonald’s (three, all owned by the same franchise) in town had signs up saying ‘We’re closed Sunday at 5:00 so our employees can see the game with friends and family.’ These guys won’t close on Christmas, but will when the Pack is in the Superbowl.

    I was somewhat tempted to drive over to the mall during the game, to see what a completely empty, but open for business, mall looks like.

    But I didn’t – I was watching the game like everyone else.

  2. stainles says:
    February 7, 2011 at 12:15 pm

    I used to have a tradition of going out to get a good steak while the game was on, since I knew the steak place wouldn’t be crowded. Unfortunately, the steak place I was going to closed.

    I did go to the movies, but 1) the movie I went to let out before the game started, and 2) that particular theater was having a “Pigskin Party”, so it wouldn’t have been deserted in any case.

  3. Earl Cooley III says:
    February 8, 2011 at 11:49 am

    I played Lord of the Rings Online during the big game. Still didn’t escape it, because people talked about the game in progress on the in-game chat channels.