Lori Nickel article - count the errors!

[Patler]

Wow, what a sloppy article on details. As a Monday morning game, try to identify as many factual errors in it as you can:

http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=519320

Note: If you are coming to this thread late, and read the article sometime after about noon on Monday, you may wonder where some of the comments that follow came from. They won't match with the article. Well, the article was revised several times throughout the morning to correct some of the most obvious errors. You still might find this thread interesting, to understand how poorly the article was first written, and even what errors still remain. You might even find more errors that we have not yet found!

[Patler]

I'll start with the most obvious, (there are others):

"Wolf has seven draft picks still kicking around Lombardi Ave.: Brett Favre,..."

Wolf didn't draft Favre, he traded for him!

[Rastak]

Ahman Green wasn't a free agent pickup......he was traded to the Packers I believe.....

[Iron Mike]

Ahman Green wasn't a free agent pickup......he was traded to the Packers I believe.....

Yep....for Fred Vinson.

[Patler]

Ahman Green wasn't a free agent pickup......he was traded to the Packers I believe.....

Ding, Ding, Ding! - Thats two!
(Heck of a thing, when a Viking troll knows more about the Packers than one of the Packer writers at the State's largest newspaper!)

[MJZiggy]

I found a few, but I would need the accompanying graphic (?) to be sure about them.

[BallHawk]

What year was Wolf's last draft?

[Bretsky]

What year was Wolf's last draft?

I believe it was 2001, which was the disasterous draft where we traded Hasslebeck and out 17th pick in the draft for the #10 pick (Jamal Reynolds) and a 3rd or 4th (which turnout to be be Torrence Marshall). Then in round 2 we selected the Fraud Ferguson over Chambers.

Keep in mind Wolf had also announced he was leaving as GM before this draft and Sherman was named the future GM so there is some debate over who ran the show for final selections. But this is certainly the last one he at least had a major hand in.

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[MadtownPacker]

What year was Wolf's last draft?

The too small jamal one but seems like many think Sherm was pulling the trigger with a silencer.

[BallHawk]

Ok, in that case, Ferguson and Martin were drafted by Wolf.

[MJZiggy]

I know I'll catch hell for this, but it's Cleditus, not Cletidus.

[KYPack]

Lori Nickel and Silverstein are two of the sorriest excuses for sportswriters in newspaper history.

The WORST article I've ever read was one in the pre-season by Nickel "explaining" the ZBS. She did it with Jags and he simply blew smioke and she swallowed it hook, line ans sinker.

Lori needs to go to another part of the paper before she totally loses her credibility. The JSO's level of writing has eroded so seriously over the past few years, it ain't funny.

[BallHawk]

I know I'll catch hell for this, but it's Cleditus, not Cletidus.

Ok, I'll play that way, too.

Lori wrote: Thompson has cut dozens players or simply let their contracts expire. Others left in free agency or trades.

I believe she/he(I don't know what gender) is missing an of there.

[Patler]

I know I'll catch hell for this, but it's Cleditus, not Cletidus.

Are you sure? The Packer yearbooks have always used "Cletidus".

[MadtownPacker]

Are you sure? The Packer yearbooks have always used "Cletidus".

Too bad they didnt get his name wrong on his checks.