FanHouse John Mara

As a man who lives and works in Green Bay, Wis., Aaron Rodgers knows. He's not blind or deaf. He sees the highlights, browses the web, listens to the talking heads. Like each and every one of his green-and-gold-clad neighbors, Rodgers is aware that the 2009 NFL season has been a turbulence-free cloud surf for Brett Favre and the Vikings and a brutal, muddy slog for his own Packers. You could actually argue that nobody knows this better than Rodgers, since no one else in town has (presumably) been sacked 43 times this year.

But since this is a day on which we're supposed to appreciate all the good things we have in life and take a little break from dwelling on the bad, I hereby invite the good people of Green Bay to fry up some Thanksgiving cheese curds, sit back and watch their man Rodgers dismantle the Detroit Lions. And as you watch, take a second to think to yourselves, "Hey, we could have it a lot worse."

Peter King, America's most successful NFL reporter, wrote something ridiculous -- but not surprising -- about Giants owner John Mara in this week's Monday Morning Quarterback column on SI.com.

King noted that Mara is planning to force Giants season ticket holders to pay thousands of dollars for personal seat licenses if they want to keep their season tickets when the Giants move into a new stadium in two years. And in the process he made Mara sound like a martyr.

King wrote, "I feel for one owner here -- John Mara of the Giants." And he then proceeded to describe how he knows that Mara "is sick about what he knows he's going to have to do": Charge what King estimates will be an average of $25,000 per fan to at least 30,000 fans to buy personal seat licenses at the Giants' new stadium.