Chip Shots: There Is No Joy In Cheeseland, Mighty Rodgers Has Struck Out

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Chip Shots: There Is No Joy In Cheeseland, Mighty Rodgers Has Struck Out

There Is No Joy In Cheeseland, Mighty Rodgers Has Struck Out

As a Bears fan living in Wisconsin, I can't tell you how happy I am today. No more Super Bowl predictions, no more reports of Aaron Rodgers walking across Lake Michigan, no more nominations for Mike McCarthy as the next pope. Just silence. The noise has dimmed and the Packer euphoria of the last year has been replaced by shock and anger.

That's right, anger. Because when you get right down to it, Packer fans are just like Bears fans: When they win, they are happy and when they lose, they are searching for answers why. The difference is Bears fans do not have the lofty expectations that Packer fans do.

Besides, if the Bears crap out Chicago fans still have the Blackhawks, Bulls, White Sox (and in the cases of masochists the Cubs) to fawn over, follow and be let down by. For hard core Green Bay fans, the packers are it. Sure, those closer to the southern part of the state have the Brewers and five or six still acknowledge the Bucks, but when the Packers are expected to get to the Super Bowl and don't, Cheese nation gets curdled pretty quickly.

Last year was special because the expectations weren't there. Then the Packers backed into the playoffs, beat the Bears and went on to shock the Steelers in the Super Bowl. Aaron Rodgers eclipsed Brett Favre as a matinee idol and kids everywhere were trying to grow their hair like Michael Boulton to emulate Clay Matthews.

The Packers started out 13-0 this year and images of running the table were all over Wisconsin. When they finally lost their first game to Kansas City, the cry was "it's okay, we want to win championships not regular season games." Now that they have no chance to repeat, they've turned on the team like a bunch of Honey Badgers eating their young. Welcome to my world, kids.

And so, as the Giants prepare to fly out to San Francisco for the NFC Championship, the Packers get ready to do something no one around these parts thought they would be doing: making tee times. Perhaps they have a friend on the Bears they would like to play with.