“I’m so depressed,” said Bob Bakic, owner of New Berlin’s Moorland
Auto Repair, Inc. Tuesday afternoon, speaking of the Packers’ NFC
Championship loss to the New York Giants this past weekend.
No
worries Bob, you’re not alone. I’m pretty certain the entire state of
Wisconsin had an awful case of the Mondays following Sunday’s game.
I
was driving down Moorland Road this afternoon, contemplating what I was
going to have for lunch, when the sign posted below caught my eye. If
it made me smile, it will make viewers smile, I thought. I knew the
business had to have put up the words last week, but I still wanted to
stop in and chat with the owner.
Oh fine, I’ll be the first one
to admit: I’m a Packer fan. By stopping in, I was 80 percent doing my
job, and 20 percent in search of some Packer Therapy of my own.
“That
guy was playing like a brick chicken house,” Bakic said, speaking of
New York Giants wide receiver Plaxico Burress, whose 11-catch, 154-yard
game against Green Bay catapulted the Giants into the Super Bowl.
Like everyone else — Favre included — Bakic never expected the game to end as it did.
“Brett Favre’s still my guy,” Bakic said, shaking his head. “He doesn’t walk on water.”
So
what’s next for Bakic’s sign? He’s still thinking, he said, but one
thing's for certain: It will make drivers turn their cheeseheads and
smile.