Detainees in Baghdad needle Wisconsin troops about Favre

StarTribune ^ | 11/20109 | AP

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Detainees at a camp in Baghdad, Iraq have found a way to get under the skin of guard troops from Wisconsin.

And it has to do with football and a painful chapter for some Green Bay Packers fans who consider Brett Favre a traitor for joining the rival Minnesota Vikings.

First Lieutenant Tim Boehnen of New Richmond says the detainees are familiar with Favre and picked up on the troops' discussion about the quarterback's performance with the Vikings.

Lt. Col. Tim Donovan says the detainees at Camp Cropper needle the guards about Favre's success as a Viking.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

This is worse than waterboarding....

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Ping...

[KarlInOhio]

But it is a war crime if we insult their favorite soccer player.

[andy58-in-nh]

Maybe the guards ought to invite them to a pigskin pickup game.

[marron]

since soccer is the main sport in Baghdad, it lacks a Vikings fan club.

This is funny.

Good post.

[wmileo]

Time to import some Arkansas Razorbacks(real thing not a football team) to IRAG and start a Wrestling Tournament with the Detainees and the Pigs.

That should thin the herd some.

Let the games begin or ALA (eats pork roll)ACBAR. Whatever works.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

LOL! I know LTC Donovan.

Off with their heads! ;)

[Seruzawa]

Okay. That’s it. No more Mr Nice guy. Set up multiple big screen TVs and show continuous broadcasts of “The View”, Keith Olberman, Chris Matthews and Janeane Garofolo. Ensure that Roseanne Barr singing the Star Spangled Banner is on continuous loop. That’ll show ‘em.

After they get softened up for a few weeks make the Cleveland Browns their official team.

[wmileo]

"But it is a war crime if we insult their favorite soccer player. "

That's because it is probably their mother or sister.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Tell him we said hello!!

[stubernx98]

Yeah, instead of cheese put panties on there heads:-/

[Night Hides Not]

After they get softened up for a few weeks make the Cleveland Browns their official team.

I'll bet ESPN executives wished they would have done it before last Monday's Ravens-Browns game. The ratings had to absolutely suck for that game.

[Allegra]

LOL - some of the Iraqi Ministry of Interior guards knew I hated the Dallas Cowboys when I was going there a few times a week and used to greet me with smart-a$$ remarks whenever Dallas had won the day before.

It was all in good fun, though.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Feel free to borrow a pair of mine!

[stormer]

[HereInTheHeartland]

Terrorists needling cheeseheads with Favre jokes.
That’s funny.

[MNDude]

another Abu Gharib is coming

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

And in the comment section, of course, conservative talk radio gets the blame...

“Conservative talk radio and others that bash all Muslims without distiction should realize that their words are also heard overseas, fanning resistance and putting our troops in danger. we cannot win in Iraq or Afghanistan without the support of the locals, and hateful conservative rhetoric does not help”

[devistate one four]

My answer would be..He will do well wherever he plays because he is a great AMERCAN!

[LuvFreeRepublic]

Close! He will do well wherever he plays because he is a great AMERICAN and a great quarterback.