Sometimes it helps to know Packers fans like Stensation, who send you things you might not have otherwise seen just because they're so upset at how this season is going. The latest: a maintenance worker who was fired apparently because of something he said before the Vikings-Packers game at Lambeau Field. From the Journal-Sentinel:
Mike Wood said he was sitting in a maintenance cart in a stadium tunnel when McCarthy was talking with members of the grounds crew. With the season's most-hyped game only three days away, Wood said he yelled to McCarthy, "Hey coach, let's get the boys ready to kick some butt this weekend." Wood says that's all he said. ... Sunday, Wood arrived at the stadium about 11:30 a.m. and immediately began his regular routine. ... Wood said Allen Johnson, the team's fields manager, approached him. "What did you say to McCarthy?" he asked. Wood said he repeated what he had told McCarthy. Wood said he was told that McCarthy thought he heard him make a comment along the lines of "don't lay an egg" in the game. "I'm telling you, I had no knowledge of that," Wood said he told Johnson. Moments later, Wood said Ted Eisenreich, the team's director of facility operations, approached him. "If you didn't say it, who did?" Eisenreich asked Wood. "I said I didn't know," Wood answered. The next thing Wood knew he was being escorted from Lambeau Field and told he was out of a job.
There's way more at the JSO site. Really, please read the entire story. McCarthy apparently addressed the story, too, on the radio this morning. He said he's "not in charge" of the maintenance department and "did not fire anybody." There could be way more to the story, of course. Or McCarthy, playing a clever game of semantics (see, technically he isn't in charge and didn't fire anybody) might have been pulling the strings the whole time and let someone else wield the axe.
If that's true, then PFT had the line of the day: "The fact that McCarthy would have Wood fired shows that the coach's thick flesh is covered by ridiculously thin skin."
This has been the first official installment of Frozen Tundra Follies. Stay tuned for more.
