In the news: Phoenix cheerleader talks of Packers near-miss

UW-Green Bay student Tyler Brinkman of Sturgeon Bay got a big write-up in his hometown paper, the Door County Advocate, with a story sharing his impressions as a Phoenix cheerleader who, along with his teammates, also got to double as a Packers cheerleader. “Getting to go to the Packers (home) games, you can’t beat that,” said the 6-foot-4, 225-pound former high school football player. One anecdote: Brinkman said he was whipping a Packers flag in a figure-eight pattern when he “clipped” the shoulder of Bears wide receiver Brandon Marshall, who was walking to the locker room to get an injury examined. Perceiving an insult had been added to his injury, Marshall briefly gave Brinkman a boxer’s menacing staredown. To read the story.