Day 203--- I'm Back... With the PACK!

So I guess its been about 8 months since I have graced any of your computer screens with my words, but I had 2 cups of crac-offee today so I could pretty much do anything. Even read a book, ha, yeah right. I imagine that a good 47% probably quit using the Internet completely once you realized I was not blogging any longer. I mean what point is there to live if you cant get your daily fill of Ryan. Mmm sounds dirty. Anyways, I think I'm done being burnt out with my blog (which should make them good and fun again) so I'm hoping to shell out a few a week at least til I hit my 365Th. For those of you non-mathematicians that's somewhere around 162 more posts. Makes me wet just thinking about it. Can you feel it? Just to let you know I haven'tbeen completely lazy since we parted ways, I have actually started diving into the world of stand-up comedy... I honestly owe some of my old readers a big thank you for the encouragement, I probably never would have gotten into it if I didn't have so many of them suggest that I should. So thanks if any of you come across this... (I'll post some videos)

Green and Yellow, Green and Yellow, Green and Yellow... For those of you who don't know, remember, or care I moved from L.A. to Milwaukee just over a year ago because I wanted to see what shrinkage was all about. Since moving here I have fallen in love, (in more ways than one) with everything about this place. But today I've decided to highlight Packers Fans... I cant think of another place that I've lived where people support their teams as hardcore as they do here in the Cheese-head state...

How about the fact that any game played at Lambeau field after mid-November has about a 94 percent chance of being at or below snot freezing temperatures and if memory serves me correctly snot has a lower freezing point than water... Still this does not stop them from packing the stadium in green and yellow... I wasn't able to find stats on how often their games sell out, mainly because I am not a detective and don't have all day to read my way through sports stats (aka I'm lazy). But I can tell you that: season tickets have been sold out since 1960, and more than 81,000 names remain on the waiting list (with a reported average wait time of 30 years). Actually, wikipedia can tell you that, I can copy paste. I'd say it takes some pretty dedicated fans to keep that streak up...

Now, anyone that has not been infected with color-blindness can admit that green and yellow are about the 2 least flattering or appealing colors on earth. Even still almost daily during the season Packers fans will go head to toe with this shit... Any day of the week you will find the mall littered with old blue haired women with their 97' Superbowl sweatshirts and Starter jackets, so sexy. But hey, at least we aren't the browns...

Ive also become impressed with the fact that any gameday, even early in the season, when the Packers game is on the Milwaukee becomes a ghost town. For the 3 or so hours that the game is on you could run down the middle of the street butt ass naked and have a 75% less chance of being hit by a car... I've done my research. Seriously though, I've lived all around the country and traveled around it even more and I have never been to a state where more people schedule their lives around a football team... Its touching, not Ben Roethlisberger touching, but touching none-the-less...

My favorite thing about all Packers fans is their mutual hatred for all things Bears or Vikings... I mean, I have seen some pretty intense rivalries up close in my life including Yankees-Red Sox, but nothing compares to the way Wisco-nites hate those to the south and west... Before I realized the full extent I thought it would be funny to buy a Bears cup that I had found a Goodwill and put it in our cupboard with the rest of the cups. This was the closest I had ever come to being raped in my life, and I live with 2 girls and a cat, even the cat wouldn't talk to me for a week... The Brett Favre hatred is pretty impressive as well, but I'd say only about half of the people here hate him, the other half are impressed that he can text at his age...

I've never been one for goodbye's, so instead of having an impressive or even semi-impressive outro, I am just going to post a video of one of the 1st stand up performances I ever did back in early January... (aka. shameless self promotion/ whoring myself out)... I will be doing more blogs! Please come join me again for the ride...