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“With the Packers facing the threat of NFL relocation unless city residents approved a new football stadium, Halas boldly sought to keep his field enemies closer to Chicago.” Good post: “Halas helped save Packers: Respect — and animosity — define this storied rivalry”

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[UPDATE: D’oh! YouTube took the video down!] Green Bay Packers’ Charles Martin body-slams Chicago Bears’ Jim McMahon in 1986. Martin was ejected from the game and suspended for two games. He’s dead. The injury to McMahon ended his season. That’s a terrible terrible choice by Martin. A friend of mine (a Bear’s fan) posted this

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Green Bay Packers’ Charles Martin body-slams Chicago Bears’ Jim McMahon in 1986. Martin was ejected from the game and suspended for two games. He’s dead. The injury to McMahon ended his season. That’s a terrible terrible choice by Martin. A friend of mine (a Bear’s fan) posted this video to his facebook page, titled, “Today

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Ry-Krisp workers in the 1920s. (MN Historical Society) I work at MinnPost HQ, which is right across the street from the old Ry-Krisp plant – Lisa Peters has a cool post about the company including old photos and old ad campaigns: “The durability of Swedish flat bread”.

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