Lambert the Packer Lion.
Posted on 09/01/2004 9:54:46 PM PDT by junkpolitical
The Battle for Wisconsin
by Stephen F. Hayes 09/06/2004, Volume 009, Issue 48
Green Bay
JOHN KERRY may have lost Wisconsin last Wednesday. Lambeau Field is arguably the most historic sporting venue in the United States. Opposing players long for the opportunity to play there. It's the Mecca of American football. Every American male over the age of 4 can finish the description of the field made famous by the pseudo-thunderous voice of ESPN's Chris Berman: "The Frooooooozen Tunnnnnnnndra of . . . "
Lambert Field?
That's what John Kerry called it during a stop last week in Green Bay. Lambert Field.
We go now to Scott Stanzel, spokesman for the Bush campaign. "What can you expect from a guy who probably thinks the phrase 'the frozen tundra of Lambeau' is something on the menu in an expensive French restaurant full of foreign leaders?"
To give you some idea of how important Green Bay Packer football is to Wisconsin, consider this:
While most NFL teams struggle to fill the stands for preseason games, the Packers sold out Lambeau Field for an intra-squad scrimmage in which tackling was prohibited.
Every summer, fans ring Clark Hinkle practice field 20-deep to watch the Packers' training camp.
After the Packers won the Super Bowl in 1996, 43.2 percent of males born in the state were named Brett.
I made that last one up, but there sure seem to be a disproportionate number of 8-year-old Bretts running around the state. (Named after quarterback Brett Favre, for you Chicago Bears fans.)
Lambeau Field is so important to the state, and Packers fans so representative of likely Wisconsin voters, that that's where I chose to travel nine days before Kerry's gaffe to conduct primary research on the state of the presidential race in Wisconsin.
You know, I don't really care that Kerry hadn't known that it was called "Lambeau Field," even though, yes, it does show up his "reg'lar guy" schtick for the nonsense it is.
I do care that he and his campaign are such blithering incompetents that he didn't know the name of the field at the time he made the speech. An incompetent campaign would likely lead to an incompetent administration.
"Oh, no ya' don't"
Freudian slip:
Look up the Kerry - Lambert (Swift Boat) connection.
Also discussed in many threads a week or so ago.
Lambert the Packer Lion.
My wife is from WI. I always considered it a civic duty to breed that Cheesehead Packer loving crap out of the next generation.
Kerry's down at least 3 points in the lates polls.
After Miller's speech last night, I think he's toast!
Last time I checked, "Lambert" Field is where the big planes land in St. Louis!!
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