Cheese for brains

Maybe it’s the extreme cold and constant snow that turns them wacky.
In any event, one misguided Green Bay Packers zealot won’t be able to have contact with his wife and son because he allegedly tried to pull his child onto the team bandwagon a little too forcefully.
According to a story filed by the Associated Press, 36-year-old Pardeeville, Wisc., resident Mathew Kowald was cited for disorderly conduct after restraining his 7-year-old son for an hour with tape and subsequently taping a Packers jersey to him. It seems Mr. Kowald was upset that his son wouldn't wear a Green Bay jersey during the team’s playoff victory last weekend.
Kowald paid a $186 fine and was released, but his wife filed a restraining order against him that will keep him from seeing his family. Lt. Wayne Smith of the Columbia County (Wisc.) Sheriff’s Dept. said other domestic issues have surfaced.
Guess that means Kowald has fallen well behind the pack in Father ofat the Year voting.
That a parent went to far in pushing football fanaticism on a child shouldn't be so surprising. That such a thing didn't happen in Georgia or Alabama and involve a staple gun rather than tape most certainly is, however.
I just wish I'd known that parents could be arrested for forcing their children to wear undesirable garments. As much as I love my mom and dad, I would have been willing to press charges for such childhood indignities as Winnie the Pooh pajamas with padded feet and the especially heinous kindergarten and first grade mandate to wear galoshes to school on rainy days.