by gordie | Mar 3, 2025 | NFL
Dear Eagles Fans: First of all, congrats on your Super Bowl victory. Speaking as a part-owner of the Green Bay Packers, I commend your team. I mean, two Vince Lombardi Trophies. Imagine that. Along the way, your team fended off mine in much the same way that your...
by gordie | Oct 28, 2023 | NFL
For a decade he made his living crashing into NFL linebackers, which has left him at age 46 with aching joints, a surgically repaired neck and a firm understanding of the Faustian bargain players strike with the game. That bargain being this: Yeah, it can be fun to...
by gordie | Sep 16, 2023 | NFL
At the Green Bay Packers’ annual owners meeting in late July, team president Mark Murphy stood at a lectern on the 50-yard line in Lambeau Field and informed myself and about 8,000 of my fellow shareholders (many of whom are pictured above) that the team would retire...
by gordie | Aug 18, 2022 | NFL
Let the record show that even at age 10, Ray Didinger did his homework. Of course he did, just as he would years later, during his half-century covering pro football as a writer and broadcaster. So renowned for his tireless research that his retirement cake earlier...
by gordie | May 29, 2022 | MLB, NBA, NFL
Roger Angell wrote long, long after it was fashionable to do so. Ray Didinger spoke evenly, even as hot takes became all the rage. You wanna call them dinosaurs, fine; have at it. I choose to believe that is true only in the sense that they have left (or are about to...
by gordie | Aug 1, 2021 | NBA, NFL, Writing
Last Wednesday in Green Bay, Aaron Rodgers discussed with reporters the discontent that had made it appear during the offseason that the reigning NFL MVP was headed elsewhere. The following day, news broke about the Los Angeles Lakers trading for Russell Westbrook....
