Thursday, January 17, 2008

What if Eli is a Lombardi fan?

Did you see where the FOX affiliate in Green Bay is pulling Saturday’s scheduled “Seinfeld” rerun because New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning is a fan of the show?

“Eli, no ‘Seinfeld’ for you,” Jay Zollar, the station’s general manager shouted in a video on the station’s Web site.

That might be taking it a little too far, but Zollar is doing his best as a loyal Packers fan to not make Manning’s stay in Green Bay this weekend a pleasant one.

The station conducted an online vote to see which show Packers fans want to watch instead of Jerry and his whacky crew.

The choices were a Vince Lombardi special, a local show with Packers receiver Donald Driver and infomercial for The Good Feat Story featuring Emmitt Smith and a M*A*S*H rerun.

No surprise that Lombardi was running away with the vote. Though, personally, I would like to see which M*A*S*H episode they had in mind before casting my vote.

I might be inclined to vote for Hawkeye if it was an early episode with Trapper and Henry.

Maybe the one where Hotlips and Frank try to have Henry court-martialed. You know? The one with “Bouncing Betty bouncing along.” That was a good one.

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