Ch-Ch-Ch-Chip and Dale's Rescue Rangers!!!

Hopefully some of you will remember the theme song from one of the pioneering shows on the groundbreaking Disney Afternoon. Chip and Dale's Rescue Rangers featured, beyond the title chipmunks of course, a big mouse like guy whose name I don't remember and a little fly dude named Zipp I believe. I am not certain of it, but I think that the big guy had an Australian accent. Anywho, it was a great show, which I believe followed the even more classic DuckTales. There was also Tailspin and Darkwing Duck and some other various shows at various times, but these were the big two to open up with.

There was one really sweet episode of Chip and Dale's Rescue Rangers where they were fighting a group of rodents known as the Cola Cult. The Cola Cult was a diabolical group who occupied some area where there was a fountain soda machine which they dispensed and drank from thimbles and acorn halves etc. All the regular things that small cute like animals would normally drink out of, you get the point. Anyway, at one point they sing this song which is sort of a cult-like loyalty to their brand of soda, which, for the record is Coo-Coo Cola (pronounced to rhyme with a cow saying "moo") and the song really rocks hard: "Come along, you belong, Feel the Fizz of Coo-Coo Cola!! "

When the Disney Afternoon first came out my grandfather was still working and his firm was in charge of at least some if not all of Disney's finances. Regardless, he got us these really sweet posters that had all the characters from the Disney Afternoon on it, and we knew about it like 6 months before anyone else. I don't know if I still have that stuff or not, I should have kept it, but it was totally sweet. Scrooge McDuck was awesome in my world way before anyone else ever saw his money swimming antics.

Regardless, Katie and I rolled to Damon's this afternoon, and though our seats were a little too close to the television (I have a slight neckache) we were able to watch the game clearly. The Pack played fairly well today, the O line was on fire. They hit hard and really protected Favre. Apparently Marco Rivera was even hurt but you couldn't tell it by the way he pulled around to trap the middle linebacker setting up Ahman Green's breakout 65 yard touchdown run on the second play of the game. Ahman had quite an afternoon, even if it was against a pretty pathetic Lions defense. Brett was better, he only threw one pick and it wasn't nearly as flagrant as he was last week. Still, he didn't look like classic Brett Favre and certainly not the man whom Sporting News should have selected as the best player in the NFL for this year. His TD to interception ratio has improved, from last week's 1-4 to this week's 3-5. Hopefully things will continue to build in this direction.

The truly bright side to this week's win was not the offense though, it was the play of our linebackers. I mean, our secondary played pretty well too, but I expect that out of Al Harris, Mike McKenzie, and Darrin Sharper. But when Nick Barnett, an admittedly good looking rookie, but a rookie nonetheless, makes 12 tackles and a pick in his second home game, that is strong. The D-line played well, Gilbert Brown especially, and the Lions had no rushing game. The pass rush was actually much stronger than the stats would make it out to be, but Joey Harrington decided to react to that by throwing the ball. It wasn't a bad decision, unless of course your receivers suck, as the Lions' do, or the opposing defense is swarming well, as the Packers were.

Good day overall. I am going to watch the Carolina Tampa game. Its a doozy folks.

Peace,

MB-K