Since the Packers are all over the news...

I thought I’d post an old story I wrote and sent via email to my flag football team “The Dramatic Prairie Dogs” last year. It just seemed fitting with all this Farve and Packers talk in the news recently. I hope you enjoy!

Hello again Prairie Dogs,

Last night I, along with a few other Prairie Dogs witnessed a story that must be told.

The setting for this story begins in a warm bar on a frigid Thursday night in downtown Minneapolis. We all sat down to watch the Packers/Cowboys game, ordered a few drinks and some apps, nothing out of the ordinary. A short while later the server came around to take our dinner orders. As we all ordered our sandwiches and burgers the server made her way to our very own Angela. Angela looked our server straight in the eyes and said “I want dessert” and then proceeded to order the brownie sundae.

Some time has passed now, the Pack are falling behind and Favre got taken out of the game with an elbow injury leaving Packer fans starring into the nervous eyes of their back up QB Aaron Rodgers (A.Rodg). As the table was becoming more and more somber our server showed up with our food. Placed in front of Angela was a huge brownie sundae that reminded me of the time I climbed Everest (but that is a whole different story). With spoon in hand Angela looked at the table and said “I’m eating this whole thing.” The challenge has begun!

The atmosphere in the bar slowly started to change. It seemed with every completed pass by A.Rodg the Packer fans spirits lifted and so did Angela’s spoon. There was a certain glimmer of determination in A.Rodg’s eyes now and that same glimmer could be seen in Angela’s. Before we knew it the sundae was over half gone. Angela looked at the table and said “I’m doing pretty well and I’ve only broken a little sweat.” I feared after this comment Angela might be getting a little cocky and that is not the Prairie Dog way.

The Packers have now pulled within 3 points of the Cowboys but both the Pack and Angela seemed to have lost momentum. I could see defeat in their eyes. I knew it was time to step in. I reminded Angela of the Prairie Dog way. The DPDs do not give up; they stay focused on the challenge in front of them and see it through to the end. After the whole table wiped away their tears from my moving speech Angela picked up the spoon and finished off the bohemiath sundae. I wish I could say the same thing happened to the Packers, that they came back and won the game without Favre, but I can’t, because they didn’t.

So the moral of the story is the Dramatic Prairie Dogs are way cooler than the Packers.