Very nearly this weekend without a post from last weekend.

Wow. This blog has gotten to the point in all blogs' lives where the updates are few and far between. (I think it's hardly coincidental that my enthusiasm for the blog has pretty much followed the success of the Badgers and Packers. Now, that doesn't make me a fair weather fan - I still follow the teams the same as ever - but most assuredly does make me a fair weather blogger....)

Pretty soon all I'll be doing is dumping a YouTube video here every three weeks and that will be that.

Still, until then, here's this:

Last Saturday, I had some folks over to watch the UNC/Georgia Tech game. It's very tech snobby, I guess, but I'd rather watch a game I'm marginally interested in in high definition than one I'm actually interested in in standard def. Oh well. Still, I periodically (commercial breaks, halftime) checked in on Wisconsin, and can say that I was pretty disheartened by at the half. 24-21 over Indiana? Yikes.

Still, I was progressively more "heartened" throughout scoring updates in the second half. Thirty one unanswered points? That's more like it. From what I read, Wisconsin's defense got their heads on straight, and the offense was able to run all over Indiana. I'm hoping that those trends flow over to tomorrow's match up against Minnesota. But more on that in a minute.

On Sunday, I kept tabs with the Packers through game updates and infrequent trips to the computer. Of course, following the game, primarily, by score alone didn't give me the immediate indication of exactly how poor they played. By all accounts, based on the play of the offense and defense, Green Bay should have lost by about five touchdowns. Certainly not the play you'd hope for from a team that's still only a few games out midway through the season; a team that I'd hoped was reloading and not rebuilding....

Sunday, with the Bears in town, will hopefully show what the Packers are made of and what to expect from them down the stretch. They've split the season with the Vikings, still have two against Chicago (2-0 would be spectacular, but I could settle for 1-1), and have one more against Detroit (which, so help me if they lose...). The remaining schedule's not easy, but with New Orleans and Jacksonville not playing up to expectations and Carolina capable of games like the one against Oakland, the Packers still have a shot at the playoffs. (Although with the look of the NFC East and South, winning the division will probably be what it takes.)

As far as Wisconsin's concerned, the fact that Eric Decker's out is a huge, huge plus. I don't know who they'd have had on him, but I suspect he'd have had a big day. As it stands, Wisconsin does look like they've started to remember how to play football, and the Golden Gophers have slowed after a hot start, so Wisconsin's being picked by most analysts. I just hope they come out strong and decide not to let Minnesota back into the game (ala Michigan and Michigan State).

With the Paul Bunyan Axe on the line, high def or no, this game is going to be my primary.