Having your cake and eating it too....
Mike
Featured Comment by Paul McCann: "Don't get it. Is this football related?"
Mike replies: Your instincts are good, Mr. Holmes. A Chicago baseball team was the first to use the term "cheesehead" as a label of derision for the fans of Wisconsin's baseball team, and, as with many such terms, it was embraced by those it was intended to embarrass, and has come to mean any resident of the Badger State, especially one who is a sports fan. Cheeseheads now wear giant, bright yellow wedges of cheddar made of foam on their heads to sporting events. Google "cheesehead" for some pictures, at which point the cake should begin to remind you of something. The "G" on the cake is the logo of the fabled Green Bay Packers, our sixth-seeded football team which went on a tear through the playoffs and resumed its rightful place atop the glorious throne of football yesterday evening. (Am I getting carried away? It's hard to know.)
Congrats. Now you're going to have to get one of these from Japan:
Posted by: JohnMFlores | Monday, 07 February 2011 at 12:58 AM
...a cake. With a slice taken out. I don't get it. Or is the point something to do with the picture itself?
Posted by: Janne | Monday, 07 February 2011 at 01:26 AM
OK I am guessing this must have something to do with one of these strange sports you sometimes refer to. If not ... please explain!
Posted by: Murray Lord | Monday, 07 February 2011 at 01:43 AM
Glory, glory Green Bay :-) ... congratulations!
Posted by: NucularHolyWarrior | Monday, 07 February 2011 at 04:17 AM
It's a groom's cake at a wedding, no less. How cool.
Posted by: Christian | Monday, 07 February 2011 at 10:12 AM
For the non football fans, it's the colors of the camera. The colors are kind of close the Green Bay Packer colors.
Posted by: Dennis Allshouse | Monday, 07 February 2011 at 02:55 PM
Don't know what all the fuss about John Deere is this weekend , but here is the official camera
Posted by: hugh crawford | Monday, 07 February 2011 at 03:54 PM
Mike, you Wisconsinites might be world champs again (congratulations! BTW), but you know what, you're still cheeseheads :-).
Posted by: Player | Monday, 07 February 2011 at 05:04 PM
Taken during a better year for the Vikes ... http://www.flickr.com/photos/smrlabs/4283194023/in/set-72157615112851220/
Posted by: Tom | Monday, 07 February 2011 at 08:46 PM
Yes, the "oficial" cheesehead camera. Whoda thunk the Japanese would tune in to such an arcane bit of American cultural lore…
Posted by: John Taylor | Tuesday, 08 February 2011 at 08:25 AM