Here’s One Kind of Cancellation Packers Can Use

An Eau Claire, Wis., postal official said he’s a Green Bay Packer fan, but he can’t let pro-Packer messages continue to be put on mail.

“We’re just opening ourselves to litigation,” said plant manager Jim Hauger. “At what point do we stop? Do we back abortion? Do we back a political candidate?”

Much of the mail canceled in the Eau Claire post office carried a tiny message supporting the Packers, who are in the NFC championship game for the first time since the Ice Bowl of 1967.

Other post offices across the state also have put pro-Packer messages on mail. Hauger said he’s trying to find the person who is responsible for them.

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Trivia time: Who holds the NBA record for most points in one quarter?

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Horse play: Andy Alman in the Oakland Tribune: “What do you get when you cross horses and hockey? The ‘Thoroughblades.’

“That’s the nickname of an American Hockey League’s expansion team in Lexington, Ky., a hotbed of horse racing. The team’s logo will be a horse on skates carrying a hockey stick.”

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Fun in the sun: Last summer, Denver Bronco kicker Jason Elam promised holder Tom Rouen and center Jeff Robinson he would take them along if he were voted to the Pro Bowl.

Elam made it, so Rouen and Robinson have a Hawaiian vacation.

“Can’t wait,” Robinson said. “I’m going to pack as little as possible, sit on the beach all day and do the things that cause people not to be able to drive legally.”

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Redundant: Heavyweight George Foreman has four sons named George, and featherweight Kennedy McKinney has two sons named Kennedy, prompting Ron Borges of the Boston Globe to wonder, “Can’t these guys afford a book of boys’ names?”

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Sun goes down: Chris Cobbs in the Arizona Republic on the underachieving Phoenix Suns:”The Suns are too old. They can’t make three-pointers anymore. They don’t care. KJ [Kevin Johnson] is always lame. Sir Charles [Barkley] can’t even get the words to the Big Mac song right.”

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FYI: The Chicago Bulls are 29-3 and could be challenging the Lakers’ NBA record of 69 victories in the 1971-72 season. That team had a 39-3 record before it lost its fourth game.

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Looking back: On this day in 1969, the New York Jets upset the heavily favored Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III, a result Jet quarterback Joe Namath “guaranteed” before the game.

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Trivia answer: George Gervin of San Antonio, with 33 in the second quarter against the New Orleans Jazz on April 9, 1978.

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Quotebook: Buffalo Bill Coach Marv Levy on finally acknowledging his age is 70, not 67 as listed in the team’s media guide: “If you’re allowed any kind of lie in this world, I think you should be forgiven for that one.”