They’re all home games for this fan

Wayne Scullino will undoubtedly be on hand today for the Green Bay Packers’ regular-season finale against the Detroit Lions.

The 30-year-old Australian quit his job in Sydney this year, sold his house and moved to Green Bay with his wife, Kelly, and sons Ben, 2, and Luc, 1, for the sole purpose of cheering for the Packers.

“I wanted to live the life of a real Packer Backer,” he wrote in his blog at www.TheOnceIna- LifetimeFan.com.

Scullino, an obsessive Packers fan since watching a videotaped game when he was 15, is using proceeds from the sale of his house to finance the trip.

He has been to all games but one this season -- home and away -- and expects to stay until the Packers are eliminated from the playoffs.

At that point, he’ll move back to Australia, where he plans to turn his experiences into a book about not being afraid to chase your dreams.

“At some point, you’ve got to stop living the life you’ve fallen into, and start living the life you want to,” he told the Associated Press.

Trivia time

When the Packers defeated the New England Patriots, 35-21, in Super Bowl XXXI, who was MVP of the game?

Intimidating presence

Bill Parcells reported to his new job last week and watched the Miami Dolphins practice for the first time since being hired as the team’s executive vice president of football operations on Dec. 20.

“He didn’t say much. He just kind of sat back in the shadows and talked to a few of the coaches,” defensive tackle Vonnie Holliday said.

Apparently, he didn’t need to say much to have an immediate impact.

“Guys were nervous out there,” linebacker Joey Porter said. “They got to running around a little faster. The coaches got to coaching a little louder. You definitely knew he was out there.”

Odd men out

The London Observer annually selects the world’s oddest owner in soccer. This year it was Gigi Becali, owner of a team in Romania.

Becali was said to have commissioned a painting in the style of Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper, with himself as Christ and his players surrounding him as the disciples.

Frank Deford of Sport Illustrated lamented that owners of American sports teams weren’t similarly listed.

“Surely George Steinbrenner qualified to be honored in his heyday,” Deford wrote. “Charles O. Finley would have earned the award merely for introducing a mule to baseball, and Al Davis deserves recognition just for his haircut and clothes -- never mind his legion of ornery disputes.”

Trivia answer

Desmond Howard, who became the first special-teams player to win the award. Howard had 244 return yards, including a Super Bowl-record 99-yard kickoff return for a touchdown.

Seeing green

The NFL is going environmentally friendly for the Super Bowl in Glendale, Ariz., in February.

The Arizona Republic reported that the league is planting thousands of trees to help offset greenhouse gas emissions produced by the NFL’s 3,000-vehicle ground transportation fleet.

The league also plans to power University of Phoenix Stadium and an adjacent NFL theme park with clean energy sources.

“If creating a mess is part of our business plan, then cleaning it up needs to be part of the model as well,” said Jack Groh, director of the NFL Environmental Program.

And finally

Denver Broncos All-Pro cornerback Champ Bailey told the Rocky Mountain News that he is not a fan of San Diego Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers, especially after Rivers engaged in trash-talking the Broncos on Monday night during a 23-3 Chargers victory over Denver.

“He’s not a respectable guy right now, because you talk too much trash and do this and that, but you’re really not a great player in this league right now,” Bailey said.

“You’re surrounded by great players, but you’re not a great player. I think he needs to understand where he stands in this league -- where he stands on his team first and foremost.”

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peter.yoon@latimes.com