Norwegian Footballer Looking to Become American Footballer

Incredible stuff.

Looks like this guy will get a tryout with the NY Jets.  We'll see if he is legit.

Packers Only Want 2 Preseason Games

Green Bay Packers president and CEO Mark Murphy said Tuesday that he no longer supports any move to an 18-game, regular-season NFL schedule.

Murphy said he backed the idea of two preseason games per team followed by the 18-game schedule during last year’s negotiations with the NFL Players Association on a labor deal. He has since changed his stance.

"I was in favor of it during the bargaining process because I saw it as a way to bring the parties together and reach an agreement . Now, to be honest with you, I couldn’t support a move to two (preseason) and 18 (regular season). I just think with all the focus on player health and safety, it would be really hard to do that,” Murphy said. “And actually, I would be in support of a move to two (preseason) and 16 (regular season).”

 “The challenge there, obviously, is you’re losing revenue,” he said at the team’s annual stockholders meeting at Lambeau Field.

Murphy also said it could impact coaches, since it would reduce the amount of time they could spend developing young players. Murphy said he figured the starters would play roughly the same number of snaps in two preseason games as they do in four games now, so “I don’t know if you’d gain that much from a health and safety standpoint. But I think those are things we have to look at. What kind of things could we do to make sure the game is as safe as possible for our players?”

Murphy, who played eight seasons in the NFL as a safety for the Washington Redskins, made it clear that he is against the proliferation of concussion-related lawsuits being brought by ex-players. He said the lawsuits are “a real concern for the league” and questioned the motivation of some of the plaintiffs.

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has some decisions to make with the rule changes, fines and suspensions because the league wants to improve player safety without significantly altering the game, Murphy said.

“Roger has to protect the future of the game and the integrity of it. I do think there’s a little bit of a tension there,” Murphy said. “You want to strive to make the game as safe as possible, but you don’t want to turn it into a 7-on-7 flag football game. So part of what makes the game so exciting is it’s so fast and physical. I think it’s finding a balance there.

“We’ve talked about it on the league level, it wasn’t that long ago that boxing was one of the most popular sports in America, and I think people just got turned off by the violence, the impact that it had on boxers. My concern in the long-term is that parents look at the game and say, ‘It’s too violent, too many risks involved, I don’t want my son playing the game.’ And that really starts to erode at your fan base in the future.”

Packers and Bears to Tee It Up in Ryder Cup Golf Event

The Chicago Bears and the Green Bay Packers will take their storied rivalry off the football field and onto the golf course.

The bitter rivals will compete in a Ryder Cup-formatted event called Rivalry Cup 2012 to raise money for their respective charities: Bears Cares and the Green Bay Packers Foundation. The event will be held at the Medinah Country Club’s course No.3- host venue of the 2012 Ryder Cup.

The participants will be current and former players and coaches.

The teams will get their chance to clinch the win for charity and bragging rights on Monday, June 18. Tee times begin at noon and the event program convenes at 6 p.m.

From Growing Up in a Family of Packer Fans to Becoming a Viking Cheerleader

Is there nothing sacred anymore?

A Wisconsin Rapids native can add professional cheerleader to her resume, but it's not for the Packers. If you look at the Minnesota Vikings Cheerleaders roster, one brunette, listed as "Chelsea J." might look familiar to those in Wisconsin.

It appears Chelsea attended elementary school and seventh-grade at East Junior High in Wisconsin Rapids and still has family living there.

She may have gone to the University of Minnesota, but did she leave relatives that are Packer fans back in the Cheese State?

Chelsea is one of 11 rookies on the 35-member squad and attends three, 31/2-hour practice sessions a week.

She holds degrees in health and wellness and child psychology, Chelsea also teaches preschool full-time for an organization providing services to homeless children and their families in Minneapolis.

And, with much of her family residing in Wisconsin Rapids, she was asked THE QUESTION...
Packers or Vikings?

"I think the bottom line is they were proud I was going to be an NFL cheerleader," Chelsea said democratically.

2012 Green Bay Packers Schedule Released

And it really begins with a bang.

The 49ers, the Bears, at Seattle, then the Saints?

It's gets a little more manageable after that, but there is a 3-game road trip thrown in.

There is no way this is the 2nd easiest schedule in the NFL.

Who knows what will happen, but I'll say 11-5.