For the better part of the past three decades, the Green Bay Packers have been good. Often times, they’ve been great.
In that same stretch, the remaining Wisconsin professional sports teams – the Milwaukee Brewers and Milwaukee Bucks – have…not.
After an extraordinary 2018 campaign in which the Brewers won 96 games and missed out on the first World Series appearance since 1982, the club, led by NL MVP Christian Yelich, is back in its winning ways hoping to make a deep playoff run.
Similarly, the Bucks are well on their way towards advancing through their first playoff series win since 2001 and look like contenders to make an NBA Finals appearance. They won an NBA-high 60 games during the regular season and are the top seed in the East.
Oh, and lest we forget that, like the Brewers’ Yelich, the Bucks also feature the likely NBA MVP, Giannis Antetokounmpo.
Is this the Upside Down? Stranger things have happened, but Packers quarterback (and minority owner of the Bucks) Aaron Rodgers is looking to keep pace with its professional brethren 90 minutes south on I-43.
“With (the Bucks) playing well, and the Brewers obviously starting hot and having a good season last year, it’s about time the Packers picked it up I think,” Rodgers said during last week’s media availability.
While Yelich won the MVP last season, he’s playing well enough in April to maintain his claim on the throne. Giannis has the MVP all but locked up, at least according to Rodgers. Now, it’s down to the original King of the North.
One can dream, but if the state of Wisconsin crowns three MVPs and multiple championships in one calendar year, it could be one of those rare confluences of greatness usually reserved for the big cities and markets of the country.
