THE IMPORTANCE OF BEATING WEAKER TEAMS. On Sunday, the Packers used a relatively simple game plan to defeat the University of Phoenix, er, the St. Louis Arizona Cardinals, not to be confused with Major League Baseball's current champion. In a zero-sum season, each win is important, especially if a team wants to move out of the cellar.

The opponents during the Green Bay Packers' two-game winning streak have a combined record of 2-13 and the three teams the Packers have beaten this season have a combined mark of 3-19.

Yes, but if the Packers don't beat those teams, their combined record is 6-19 and one of them might have a modest winning streak going.

I was able to listen to some of Sunday's victory, which included the radio promulgation of a Man Law preventing the "toll sip" at a sporting event. I realize the Man Laws are intended to be funny, but what does it say about the world we live in that pronouncing anathema on the "toll sip" resonates?