The Packers Ohio Jinx
The Packers are in town for tonight's preseason game against the Browns. According to today's Cleveland Plain Dealer (all 26 pages of it, produced at the Akron Beacon-Journal, where they actually had power), the Packers were stuck at the Renaissance Hotel, with nothing to eat, until someone remembered the hot dog vendor in front of Tower City and they rushed out there, but a woman in front of them had got the very last hot dog. That prompted one of the first year players to complain that he's drop from 295 lbs to 185 lbs if he didn't get something soon.
The only reason I find this particularly funny is that a week and a half ago the Packers were here in Canton, which is about 60 miles to the southeast, to play the hall of fame game. We were watching that on tv, and sure enough, about 45 minutes after the electrical storm blew by us, it showed up in Canton and they had to cancel the rest of the game. I figure the Packers have probably had enough of Ohio by now.
The only thing still wrong around here at this hour is that Caribou won't make any hot coffee by order of the health department, until the water emergency is lifted. No fair.