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“What’s the secret of Packers’ success?”

Here at WCD, we believe the secret of the Packers’ success is…cheese. We are firm believers in the awesome power of cheese. No holiday for us is complete without a port wine cheese ball, one of the traditional foods of our people. It fills us with delight that our neighborhood grocer is selling gourmet cheese balls. A favorite quick and dirty appetizer in the circles we move in is: take a block of cream cheese, pour a nice sauce over it (something like this Raspberry Chipolte Sauce although a good Mexican salsa also works well) and serve with crackers. Smoked gouda. Or the aged gouda we used to be able to get at our local cheesemonger, which had a nice nutty taste.

Where were we? Oh, yeah. The Packers. And this week’s TMQ after the jump…

So what are the Packers’ secrets?

1. Good people. (“Green Bay won the Brett Favre mess.”)
2. Good tactics. (Specifically, sideline passing, passing first then rushing, “funky defenses”, and the “Canadian influence”.)
3. “Mystique”.
4. “Bicycles”.

More Tebow.

Kelly Lee must be a soccer mom, as she appears to be smuggling soccer balls under that top.

Sweet and sour: Houston-Atlanta and New England-Indianapolis, Dallas-Arizona, Giants-Packers, Carolina-Tampa.

TMQ’s item about Pay for Play: A History of Big-College Athletic Reform had us kind of interested. (“Ronald Smith notes that major college athletics, especially football and men’s basketball, are marketed mostly to people who are not affiliated with the college — not to students or alums, but to television viewers.”) Then we went over to Amazon to build the link. $71.49? No, thank you. Not going on our Christmas list, not at that price. We’re not that interested.

Blitzes. (Cheese blintzes. We’re quite fond of those, too. Unfortunately, there’s no good New York style deli in Austin, ever since Katz’s closed.) “115 points, 1,644 yards of offense, 1,032 return yards, 16 touchdowns and two punts”. Creep.

TMQ’s Christmas list includes authentic fakes, a hand-painted V2 replica, and something from L.L. Bean. Geeez, TMQ, is that all? We have some additional suggestions for TMQ’s Christmas list. Perhaps a good reference work on firearms? Or some Thatchers Blueberry Liqueur and Amaretto, for the legendary blueberry almond martini? Feel free to add suggestions for TMQ in the comments. (Feel free to just go ahead and buy your suggestions for WCD. Shipping address available upon application to the proper authorities.)

“Now U.S. taxpayers are being told they will never, ever have to cover losses for European bonds.” The heading for that item is: “Scariest Words I Have Heard All Year”.

“Boy, it would really be something if we could pick up a first down”. Guess who said that. The Titans are challenged to win, and do so.

“People speak of an amorphous past Golden Age for the media — when was this, exactly?” We actually commend this entire item to your attention, as it makes what we think are some very good points about the state of the media, both from a producer and a consumer point of view.

Boise State. “The chair of the English department is not fired if the faculty fails to publish enough that year.” Yawn. Same old same old, Gregg. And speaking of “Same old same old”, once again this year, TMQ is complaining that “Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer” aired in November. Once again this year, we’ll point out that it did air after Thanksgiving, so what’s the issue here?

(“Santa doesn’t come off so good in the special either. His nose-ism prejudices are never explained — maybe it’s a generational thing with right jolly old elves of his age.” It has been a while since we watched “Rudolph”: is it even established that Santa has a “nose-ism prejudice”?)

Speaking of prejudices, while we love the female form as much as the next heterosexual male, we find something disturbing in Easterbrook’s obsession with cold cheerleaders = victory.

“The Kentucky-Tennessee game didn’t get much national notice because neither college is bowl-bound.” Except, oddly enough, on FARK, where people were griping it didn’t get more notice.

Something about the two Ohio teams. Something about undrafted quarterbacks.

“…the Christmas tree is not a religious symbol!” More: “…not only is a Christmas tree not in violation of the Establishment clause — its presences helps make a nativity scene not violate the Establishment Clause (which it would alone, based on the Court’s 5-4 decision in Allegheny County v. ACLU, 492 U.S. 573, 1989) because the presence of the tree reminds the viewer that Christmas has meanings that are not related to religion.” And: “It is yet another sign of the low state of political discourse that the governor of Rhode Island doesn’t know the difference between religious and secular symbols.” Well, of course, Greg: he’s the governor of Rhode Island. We’re pretty sure this guy knows the difference. (And, yes, WCD would not mind finding that under our Christmas tree. We already have The Prince of Providence, just for the record.)

TMQ is gently corrected on the B53 nuclear device. “This could turn out to be a wonderful year to be a bad NFL team”, or, there are quarterbacks other than Andrew Luck coming out in 2012.

Chicken-<salad> punts: University of Houston. Georgia Southern 55, Old Dominion 48. Wesley 27, Mary Hardin Baylor 24.

Worst play of the season so far: Detroit Lions. Good to see them back in form.

Please tune in next week. In the meantime, we’ll be contemplating baked brie and Sottocenere.

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