Where is it, this year? It's near you, this year?

In Arlington, but a lot of the events will be in Dallas and Fort Worth. By SB Weekend, I'll be in North Dallas (away from most of it), but I still don't want to have to deal with all of the craziness in the region.

Yep, I hear ya.

When I'm not bleeding azure blue & white, I'm bleeding black & gold. It doesn't mean that, like you, I can't appreciate another team or player at times.

As for the city, there's one MAJOR sticking point - the handgun laws. I need to read the current ones first before I say a "must/must not". Having said that, I've never lived in an actual city except when taking training or such - I'm such a child of the suburbs! Plus, Beloved works in one (River Forest).

Go Bears!

Yeah the handgun laws are a pain in the butt right now. I'm glad the ban got overturned but what they've got right now is completely whackadoodle.

But it's good to know that if I want to purchase one I can keep it at your house and we can go to the range together. :D

Yup

This. NOt a fan of either really I just see the Packers taking it all.

Never expected when I booked my trip to Chicago this weekend, there would be a playoff game on Sunday. Should be rather interesting in the city!

Sounds like fun! Do you know a club nearby, or do you have to join one?

It was a really fun atmosphere when I was there last weekend. Fiance (who is a huge Packers fan) has really been enjoying the rivalry this week too. He said people (including Steelers and Jets fans) have been wearing their jerseys to school nearly every day this week.

However, the fun atmosphere will probably turn to absolute insanity by tomorrow. :p


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Did anyone ever figure out what tarnished reputation Aaron Rodgers has?

If honeychile was referring to He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, everyone (even in Wisconsin) knows he's a d-bag.

It's the same sort of thing with Rothelsberger or any of the other really good professional athletes who do bad/dumb things. They get off easier because they are great at something Americans consider really, really important.

^ Yes, I was NOT referring to Rodgers. I was referring to the Cheeseboy.

Fiance refuses to acknowledge his existance. He cried the day Favre retired the first time. Now, he doesn't even mention him.

I'm not sure if he's more upset that Favre left Green Bay or that his hero turned out to be a real jerk.

I'm glad to hear Rodgers doesn't have anything bad (that we know about) on his record. He's a smart guy... or at least he was before all the brain trauma. Here's to hoping his special helmet works!

Just leave loooooooooooots of extra travel time (especially for the airports) - they will be crowded but traveling around the city wasn't too too bad last week.

I don't know of any right now. If you find a burb you like, we can go from there. ;) Because we live in the city, and the ban was in place when we moved here, we haven't looked into how to manage that hobby (in fact, when we lived in Pgh we indulged our shooting fascination with the handguns of a friend, so we'd be buying for the first time). We're still trying to make heads or tails of the new law right now. You have to take handgun training at a club, but there are no clubs in the city, and you can't take your handgun out of your house, etc. It's weird.

I'm hoping and praying I get an email today about us being allowed to wear sports jerseys to work tomorrow. I will rock my Steelers jersey with pride.