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Updated: June 7, 2011

The Green Bay Press-Gazette reports Kemps’ announced its newest ice cream flavor, Touchdown Sundae, at Lambeau Field last week as part of a partnership with the Green Bay Packers to highlight the state’s dairy industry.

The special vanilla ice cream with chocolate-covered footballs is available at select grocery stores in Wisconsin until the end of the year. Kemps’ will offer other Packer-themed dairy products for the next three years to promote Wisconsin dairy products. Kemps also sells traditional ice cream sandwiches and sundae cones with the Packers logo.

The partnership was announced on the field with a 1,706-pound Holstein and the new Kemps and Green Bay Packers commercial playing on the Jumbotron.

Bill Hawker, manager of corporate sales for the Packers is pleased to be a part of the a partnership to showcase an industry with great importance to the state of Wisconsin.

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LAKE DELTON — Green Bay Packers defensive back Brandon Underwood has entered a no-contest plea to one count of prostitution — nonmarital sexual intercourse.

Underwood, 24, of De Pere, was found guilty and fined $379 by a Sauk County judge, Lake Delton Police Chief Thomas Dorner announced Wednesday in a news release.

The conviction will be expunged from Underwood’s record in 12 months if he pays the fine, according to Wisconsin court records posted online.

Underwood appeared in Sauk County Court in connection with the June 10 incident at the Wilderness Golf Cabins in this small Wisconsin Dells community. Two women alleged they had been sexually assaulted by a Packers player.

Multiple players had been in the Lake Delton area for a charity event, and police quickly cleared the other players of any wrongdoing. The allegations against Underwood dragged out for months with authorities refusing to explain why.

Lake Delton police refused to field questions from reporters and callers were told Dorner was not available for additional comment.

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LAKE DELTON — Packers defensive back Brandon Underwood has entered a no-contest plea to one count of prostitution — nonmarital sexual intercourse

Underwood, 24, of De Pere, was found guilty and fined $379 by a Sauk County judge, Lake Delton Police Chief Thomas Dorner announced Wednesday in a news release.

The conviction will be expunged from Underwood’s record in 12 months if he pays the fine, according to Wisconsin court records posted online.

Underwood appeared in Sauk County Court in connection with the June 10 incident at the Wilderness Golf Cabins in this small Wisconsin Dells community. Two women alleged they had been sexually assaulted by a Packers player.

Multiple players had been in the Lake Delton area for a charity event, and police quickly cleared the other players of any wrongdoing. The allegations against Underwood dragged out for months with authorities refusing to explain why.

Lake Delton police refused to field questions from reporters and callers were told Dorner was not available for additional comment.

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Two Minnesota senators gritted their teeth last week as they played a role in formally honoring the Green Bay Packers, who won the Super Bowl earlier this month.

By some cruel twist of fate, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) had to read a measure extolling the Packers while Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) presided over the upper chamber.

In case you’re not up on rivalries, the one between the Packers and the Minnesota Vikings is pretty intense. 

Klobuchar, a daughter of beloved Minnesota sportswriter Jim Klobuchar, took to the floor and spoke of “Green Bay, Wis., also known as ‘Titletown, USA’ ” and of the Packers as a “team unique in professional sports … known all over the world for their devoted fans.” 

Klobuchar, a diehard Vikings fan, waxed on, calling the Packers a team that “exemplified the hard work, discipline, determination and humility of Green Bay,” and summing up with the requisite congratulations to the team.

How did this happen? Had Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) ordered this punishment for some defection on a motion to proceed? Had the Minnesota senators lost a bet with their Wisconsin colleagues? Well, no. 

“I was simply asked to read all the resolutions for the close of the day, “ Klobuchar told ITK. “It happened to be one of them.”

She then did some solid trash-talking, Senate-style: “While it wasn’t my resolution, I congratulate the Packers on their victory and know that next year it will be the Vikings.”

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And we’re immediately off to the second segment of the Green Bay Packers Super Bowl celebration at Lambeau Field. Technically it’s now a parade, as defensive coordinator Dom Capers led the coaching staff on a wade through the Wisconsin snow as the higher-ups listed their names. It looks horrifyingly cold — all parkas everything.

Some camera shots resulted in coaches halfway disappearing behind mounds of snow.

Next up, the offensive and defensive lines got to make the rounds. Much bigger applause for the D-line than any other introductee so far. Tight ends followed, along with a conspicuous amount of security personnel.

Kevin Greene’s linebacker unit entered next, and yes, of course one Packers ’backer whipped another with a white towel. Greg Jennings and his fellow wide receivers got the next call, followed by the banged-up secondary. Both were well-received.

The biggest cheers, of course, came for quarterbacks, of whom Aaron Rodgers was the last one out of the tunnel. Somewhere in there running backs must’ve been introduced, but I missed it.

Coach Mike McCarthy was introduced last, bearing the Lombardi Trophy. As he circled the field, he extended the trophy into the crowd so fans could touch it.

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Doug Jauquet smiled. Then prayed. And bounced up and down like he was on a pogo stick. And then shed a tear or two of joy.

All in about three minutes.

Jauquet’s emotions, on displayy Sunday as he watched the NFC championship game inside Swobey’s tavern on Green Bay’s east side, told the story of the alternating agony and ecstasy of Green Bay Packers fans everywhere. Supporters of the Green and Gold celebrated as their team built a 14-0 lead, sweated as the Chicago Bears threatened to stage a comeback then rejoiced as the Packers earned the right to play the Pittsburgh Steelers for the franchise’s fourth Super Bowl title.

“Without the Packers, people in other places might not know anything about Green Bay — even whether it’s in Wisconsin,” said Jauquet, an east side resident who watched the game with fellow season-ticket holder Patrick Callahan. “This team is just so important to us.”

Packers fans demonstrated the depth of that commitment Sunday, leaving area streets virtually deserted as they flocked to taverns and house parties for the 2 p.m. game, then blowing off family dinners and household chores in droves to rush to Austin Straubel International airport to welcome their team back to town.

Some examples of fans’ level of commitment:

♦ When power was knocked out to Longshotz tavern and about 700 other Wisconsin Public Service Corp. customers in the city, bartender Alli Adams didn’t hesitate. “People just started leaving. So I shut the place down and came (to Swobey’s). I wasn’t going to miss the game.” Longshotz eventually reopened.

♦ When Callahan’s friend phoned during the first half to say he had lost his passport and was about to be stuck in Florida and miss the cruise he’d planned for months, Callahan said he’d run to the friend’s house to look for the document — so long as he could be back at Swobey’s for the second-half kickoff. “I’m a good friend,” said Callahan, whose first Packers game was as a 6-year-old in the 1970s when Lambeau Field had a children’s section. “But I’m not crazy.”

♦ At the airport, fans waited for hours for a glimpse of the players, warming up by delivering ovations and high fives to anyone who wandered off another flight while wearing green or gold. When the team arrived, |fans turned the cheer volume up to concert-hall levels.

“Green Bay is a special place,” said Jenny Menne — wife of one Packers fan, mother of three others and grandmother of another five — as fans celebrated around her. “How can you live here and |not love this football team?”

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CHICAGO – The Green Bay Packers are headed to town for the NFC championship game and Bears fans are starting to become a bit unbearable.

Turn on the radio in Chicago, and you’ll hear no shortage of jokes about Packers fans, many of which have something to do with low intelligence.

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CHICAGO – The Green Bay Packers are headed to town for the NFC championship game and Chicago Bears fans are starting to become, well, a bit unbearable.

Turn on the radio in Chicago and you’ll hear no shortage of jokes about Packers fans, many of which have something to do with low intelligence. There’s been plenty of laughs over a Green Bay newspaper headline that read “On To Chicaco.” Many more center on the dietary habits of fans north of the “Cheddar Curtain,” like this one:

What do you call a 400-pound Packer fan? Anorexic.

All of this sniping, fun or otherwise, makes sense since the NFL’s oldest rivalry has had 92 years to simmer. Vince Lombardi, Don Hutson, Bart Starr, Ray Nitschke, Bronko Nagurski, Dick Butkus, Mike Ditka and Walter Payton — all of those names and more add to the rich history, but so does the relationship between the loyal fans in the two states.

John Cochara has been hearing from his so-called friends who decided he was celebrating a Packers win over the Bears a little too much in 1995 and duct-taped him to a stop sign.

“They’re saying, ‘You better watch out, there are a lot of stop signs out there,’” said Cochara, whose punishment outside a bar just south of the Wisconsin-Illinois state line included a sign over his head that read “Packer Fan.”

The Super Bowl Shuffle video by the 1985-86 Bears is getting tens of thousands of fresh clicks on YouTube. At least one Chicago TV station got texts imploring them to ask Packers fans to swear off cheese or, at least cheeseheads, cheese ties and, honestly, cheese bras. A sign outside the Crystal Lake Rib House not far from the Wisconsin line warns that prices for Packers fans are twice the menu listing.

“They say, ‘We really don’t have to pay double, do we?’” said owner Dave Faccone, who insists it’s a joke. Still, some Bears fans have chimed in.

“I got a text saying, ‘You big troublemaker, charging them double. It should be triple,’” he said.

On the other side of the state line, Packers fan Frank Emmert Jr. of Superior, Wis., reminisced this week about the time he survived a small plane crash in 1995 thanks to the foam cheesehead he put over his face seconds before impact.

“The FAA credited it, not me,” said Emmert, 52.

Mike Pyle, who played center for the Bears for nine years, including the 1963 championship season, recalled how his coach and owner of the Bears, George Halas, brought a message over to Packers coach Vince Lombardi before a game.

“He went to the locker room door at Lambeau and said, ‘We’re going to whip your (expletive),’” said Pyle, 71.

Yet, with all that bad blood all those years, you’d have to go back to the week after the attack on Pearl Harbor to find the last time the Bears and Packers met in a playoff game. (The Bears won on their way to the championship).

This time around, the winner of Sunday’s showdown goes to the Super Bowl at Cowboys Stadium.

“There have been some highly hyped games that went splat, but this, they’re playing for the Halas Trophy, to go to Dallas to win the Lombardi Trophy,” said Marc Silverman, the co-host of a radio show on ESPN 1000, Waddle and Silvy, with former Bears receiver Tom Waddle.

Not that the Super Bowl seems to matter much: Packers fans said beating the Bears at Soldier Field would be a wonderful cake, with a Super Bowl victory serving as the frosting.

“There would be nothing sweeter than to watch the Packers take that George Halas trophy at Soldier Field,” said John O’Neill, whose outfit at Packers games is a green bishop’s costume and mitre, with Lombardi’s face on it. He’s appropriately known as St. Vince.

It’s the same story in the birthplace of the Bears: Decatur, Ill.

“I can’t think of a bigger Bears game,” said 76-year-old Charley May, whose family and the team have been intertwined since his dad, Walter “Red” May, took Halas up on an offer to play for the Decatur Staleys. Halas later moved the team to Chicago and changed its name.

“For guys who have followed the Bears all their life and truly hate the Packers, yeah, this is their Super Bowl,” said Mark Foster, 54, who plans to erect a 5-foot inflatable Bears helmet outside his home in Lansing, south of Chicago. “We can lose 50 to nothing in the Super Bowl to Pittsburgh or the Jets, but if we beat the Packers, who cares?”

Scott Wiese understands what Foster is talking about.

“The only thing I can compare it to is if the Cubs played the Cardinals in Game 7 for the pennant,” said Wiese, 30, who grew up in the Decatur area and now lives in St. Louis. “It’s the biggest game for me as a Bears fan my whole life, and that includes the Super Bowl.”

Don’t expect Wiese to do something crazy. Again.

It was Wiese who, before the Super Bowl in February 2007, vowed in writing to change his name to Peyton Manning if the Indianapolis Colts beat his Bears — which they did. He went to court to keep his promise, but the judge tossed out his request.

As for the 44-year-old Cochara, he’s not about to stop rooting for the Packers. But, he said, the bar where he was taped up after he played “We are the Champions” following that Packers win has never been the same.

“Packers fans are scared about what happened,” he said.

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Associated Press Writer Carrie Antlfinger contributed to this report from Milwaukee.

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by Don Babwin – Jan. 20, 2011 11:01 AM
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