[USML Announce] Why is this News

[Blocker, Mark B.]

Jeff:
 
  Thanks for the e-mail (you're not even the first person to send me this snippet) and, of course, your concern for my kids' well-being.  At our house, the risk is entirely reversed; Ezra is such a huge Packer fan that he makes me look like a fair weather fan.
 
  To my fellow Packer fans in the league, enjoy the game this weekend.  And Fruiter, if you are going, Ezra and I will be in Curly's before the game (spending some of the $90 Doug S will soon be forking over), in section 114 during the game (brrr...), and in the streets of Green Bay celebrating with everyone else after the game (and hoping my car starts when we are finally ready to leave).
 
  Go Pack!  On to the Super Bowl....
 
  -- Mark
 
  


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	From: announce-bounces at usml.net [mailto:announce-bounces at usml.net] On Behalf Of jhwinick at aol.com
	Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 8:40 AM
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	The following story was in the Chicago Tribune this morning.  Is anyone here surprised that periodically a kid is born in the State of Wisconsin without a head of cheese and the judgment to root for a real team?  Or that a Packer fanatic would behave in this manner?  Not me.  I just hope the Blocker children at least pretend to like the Packers.  Heaven knows what we'd be reading about if they didn't.
	
	

	Packers fan jailed for roughing

	AP
	January 17, 2008
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	Upset that his 7-year-old son wouldn't wear a Green Bay Packers jersey during the team's playoff victory Saturday, a man restrained the boy with tape and taped the jersey onto him.
	
	Matthew Kowald was cited for disorderly conduct in connection with the incident with his son at their home in Pardeeville, Wis., Lt. Wayne Smith of the Columbia County Sheriff's Department said. Pardeeville is 30 miles north of Madison.
	
	Kowald, 36, was arrested Monday after his wife told authorities about the incident. Kowald was taken to the county jail and held until Wednesday, when he pleaded no contest, paid a fine of $186 and was released. His wife filed a restraining order Wednesday, so Kowald will not be able to have contact with his family, Smith said.
	
	Smith said the incident sounded strange when reported at first, but the mother took pictures with her cell phone and that type of evidence is difficult to dispute.
	
	Kowald, contacted later Wednesday by the Portage Daily Register, said the incident started as a joke. His son challenged him by saying he wouldn't root for the Packers. When he tied the boy up, the youngster was laughing while his wife took pictures, he said.
	
	"Then he couldn't get out and he got upset and that's it," he said. "I didn't mean no harm, and he knows that, but I haven't been able to tell him that." 
	Copyright ? 2008, Chicago Tribune <http://www.chicagotribune.com/> 
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