The Internet movie "Hinkleton," shot in Jordan and originally posted on Nissan's Web site, isn't available via the site or YouTube anymore. But I found an interesting article about the making of such movies, including "Hinkleton."

Click on the PDF below and read pages 2 and 6. 

Jordan resident Dick Ames' name appeared in Sid Hartman's column yesterday.

"The largest contributors to the construction of the new Gophers football stadium are being given the first opportunity to purchase the building's executive boxes," Hartman wrote. "The No. 1 buyer is Dick Ames, the construction company owner and certainly one of the top boosters of University of Minnesota athletics."

My hear seriously just sunk in my chest. The biggest sports name in Wisconsin and the best quarterback I’ll see in my lifetime – Brett Favre – is retiring after 17 seasons, according to ESPN.

I was hoping that after last week’s accidental retirement page on the team’s Web site that Brett would come back for another season, and most sports talking heads thought he would. But it turns out the Pack will be under the relatively untested and far more breakable hand of Aaron Rodgers next season.

I understand that pitchers and catchers report soon, but that’s about as far as I can take my grasp on the supposed pastime of America – baseball.

I come from Wisconsin, where the four seasons are much different than the rest of the nation. While Minnesotans enjoy spring, summer, fall and winter, we in Wisconsin enjoy spring, summer, deer hunting season, and Packer season. Professional baseball – in the form of the Milwaukee Brewers – has always been an afterthought to the green and gold of Lambeau field. I never had a chance to understand baseball.

It’s been about a day and a half since the unthinkable happened – the Packers’ loss in the NFC championship game – and I feel like I might finally be turning a corner. Yesterday, I wouldn't read any sports news online, and I refused to watch any ESPN. But today, I think I might watch ESPN when I get home, and I’m even willing to think about football again today for the first time. I think I'll still probably skip any stories about the game, though.

I wish I could be in Lambeau for this Sunday’s game. It’s going to be cold and awesome.

Last night I went and saw “Dan In Real Life.” It’s a total feel-good, warm your heart, chick-flick kind of movie, and it was my idea to see it.

Yesterday may go down in my personal history books as the best Sunday ever. It was like a perfect storm of all things good and great about professional football.

Am I the only Packer backer in Jordan?

My football picks are worth bragging about, despite the fact that nationally I rank in the 2 percentile on Football Zone.