Why Ryan Pickett Is Awesome. And Other Stuff. Is It Sunday Yet?

Posted by Brandon Rifkin on January 11, 2012   Jump To Comments

RYAN PICKETT TACKLES EVERYONE.

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• If you don’t love Ryan Pickett, this will change your mind. Another excellent human interest piece (I think?) from the Journal Sentinel (no, seriously, this time I have more on them coming).  Not only does he have 5 kids under the age of 7, but he’s helping to home-school all of them.  And his wife is expecting another child in the fall.  He’s the ultimate family man, while having one of his best professional seasons at the age of 32.  Truly respectable and admirable stuff.  Also, this made me smile:

“On my off-days, I have to teach,” Pickett said.

So Pickett shows the little ones how to hold a pencil and the middle ones how to spell and his oldest where to put the decimal point.

“Right now my oldest is in second grade, but she’s doing third-grade math – and I’m like, this is what third-graders do in math?” Pickett said. “Oh my goodness, I don’t know how much longer I’m going to be able to help her.”

• The Journal Sentinel is launching a digital subscription plan – limiting your ability to read their Packers’ coverage for free. This is certainly something that a lot of newspapers either have considered or will have to consider as circulation numbers dwindle in the digital age.  I’m rather torn about it – on one hand, I applaud them for being proactive and trying to increase revenue before things get so bad that they have to resort to layoffs.  On the other hand, making people pay to read their Packers blog seems crazy.  It is, after all, a blog.  A very good one, perhaps an invaluable one for a Packers fan, but still a blog.  As far as I can tell, it will run you about $120 a year for full access to all of their content.  Otherwise, you’ll be limited to 20 ‘articles’ a month.  I’m very curious to see how this plays out for them.
• This week in ‘Awesome News That Everyone Will Be Happy To Hear’, Greg Jennings fully tested his knee out – and it’s all good. Cutting, sprinting – you name it, he did it.  All signs point towards him being damn near 100% for Sunday’s big showdown with the New York Football Giants.  Oh god, is that a Bermanism?  If it is, I am truly, truly sorry.
• In case you needed more parallels to the last time these teams met in the playoffs, it looks like the temperature will be dropping significantly by Sunday. It’s clear and in the 40′s right now in Green Bay, but come Sunday the temp should drop to the teens.  And there will be a good amount of snow falling between now and then.  This is good though, right?  Isn’t this why we wanted home field advantage?  Wanna beat the Packers?  You gotta come to cold, snowy Lambeau and do it.  I like the sound of that.