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Tom Davis

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I was born in Las Vegas, Nevada, on a date that no "This Day in Sports" archive I have found has shown to be significant in any way. Oh well; at least the Brewers won that day.

My parents were, as is the case with almost all children I think, the primary determinants of which sports teams I was going to root (or, as the Euros say, barrack) for, and being that they were both raised in Milwaukee and attended Marquette University, I was pretty much destined to become a prototypical Cheesehead; a lover of all things Wisconsin from the college teams to the finally-made-it-in-2008 Brewers to the Robert-"Tractor"-Trailer-for-Dirk-Nowitski Bucks to the when I entered the world annually cellar-dwelling Green Bay Packers. Growing up in Vegas, I didn't (and we still don't) have any local pro team to back, so I backed the Wisconsin teams, in addition to UNLV, the AAA Las Vegas Stars (and their then-affiliated parent club the San Diego Padres, though both the name and the affiliate have changed since then; we're now the AAA club for the Blue Jays via the Dodgers, and are currently called the 51's), and the carousel of minor league teams that had runs in the city that varied from one to about five or six years, including the Posse (CFL), Dustdevils (CISL), Thunder (IHL, and by far the longest tenured), Outlaws (XFL), Bandits (IBL) and more recently the Gladiators (AFL) and the Wranglers (ECHL, and the only team I mentioned that is still in the city).

Sports became a big fascination of mine, particularly football, as the Packers won the first of their two Super Bowl appearances over the Patriots with my parents in attendance at the Super Dome in New Orleans. This big stage win at a very impressionable age probably assured my love of pro football over all other sports (though now I think it's a very close race between it and college basketball). The Packers weren't just my favorite team; they were my team, a fact that was put on paper when a share of Green Bay Packer stock was purchased in my name in 1998. Since then, I have been Tom, Co-owner of the Green Bay Packers.

I left Las Vegas in 2005 to attend the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania for my college education. Since then, UPenn basketball has also become my team; I was a season ticket holder and Line member for my first two years, and have since made the jump to the other side, becoming a manager for the team. This and UNLV's imminent return to prominence as a basketball power have strengthened my love of college basketball, and I assure you that in addition to covering all things Green Bay I will be giving you updates on how their respective seasons are going. Thank you very much for reading all of this, and welcome to my blog.

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  • Favorite Athletes

    I follow teams, not players. But for the sake of filling this space, here is the list of players whose jerseys I own: William Henderson, Antonio Freeman, A.J. Hawk, Jeremiah Trotter, Ray Allen, Ibrahim Jaaber, Ray Allen, Jeff Carter. I also have one unnamed Brewers jersey and one unnamed UNLV jersey.

  • Favorite Sports Teams

    Green Bay Packers, Milwaukee Brewers, Milwaukee Bucks, Philadelphia Flyers, Arsenal, University of Wisconsin, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, Marquette, UNLV, University of Pennsylvania.

  • Favorite Coaches

    Denny Green, who still believes the Bears are who he thought they were

  • All Time Sports Moment

    Watching Antonio Freeman take the ball off his back and score a touchdown against the Vikings in overtime on Monday Night Football.

  • Most Memorable Game Attended

    2006: Univ of Penn Men's Basketball 76, Temple 74. First and only time to date that I "stormed the court."

  • Most Unbreakable Sports Record

    Brett Favre to Robert Brooks 99-yard touchdown pass (shared by others), because unless they make the field longer it literally cannot be beat.

  • Ruth or Mays?

  • Unitas or Montana?

  • Jordan or Russell?

  • Gretzky or Orr?

  • Pele or Maradona?

  • Federer or Sampras?

    Sampras. This is the only one I feel comfortable answering, since for all the other debates I either was not alive to witness the playing days of at least one of the players in question, or don't care about the sport (this latter group contains both the Petty-Earnhardt and Schumacher-Senna debates, the latter of which I assume is referencing Formula One).

  • Tiger or Nicklaus?

  • Petty or Earnhardt?

  • Schumacher or Senna?

  • Pac 10, Big 12, Big 10, SEC, ACC, or Big East?

    Mountain West and Ivy League are the two that I actually follow, but of those 6 I choose the Big Ten.

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