In the best sports-related comedy weather forecast since that guy in Cleveland got pissed about the NBA Finals and screamed about how “IT’S ALL WEATHER,” Green Bay television station NBC26 used a replacement weatherman (or “weatherguy”) to prove that yes, even local news thinks the NFL replacement referee debacle is embarrassing.

But hey, to the weatherman’s credit, a morning low of -200°, a peak at 346° and an afternoon high of zero sounds like a comedic exaggeration, but he might’ve just accidentally reported D.C.’s weather instead of Green Bay’s.

Things actually get worse when the real weatherman shows up and weatermans all over everything, but isn’t that the story unfolding? Replacement referees do a bad job, we cry out for the real referees, then remember the last however-many-years of our lives we’ve spent yelling about how normal refs never make the right call. No happy ending to this story. Just like local news!

[h/t to Shutdown Corner]

Here’s the short version: The object pictured above is a thing a real policeman is going to wear, and not something you can get bundled with a Sterling Sharpe train whistle in the team shop at Lambeau Field. The longer version, from the Associated Press:

Official badges of some Green Bay police officers have begun sporting the logo of the NFL champion Green Bay Packers.

Green lettering on the gold badge proclaims, “Green Bay Police” and “Super Bowl Champions XLV.” Smaller green letters remind people of the city’s nickname, “Titletown.”

Department leaders authorized the badge this year after the team won its fourth Super Bowl title. Officers can purchase the badges for use until next August. Officers also can elect to wear the department’s traditional badge.

Along with the new badges, the Green Bay Police Department is introducing a great new retirement plan where you’re allowed to retire, come back, retire again and get transferred to Minnesota.

I hope the “officers can elect to wear the department’s traditional badge” part is supposed to read “officers will continue to wear normal badges” and this Packers logo variant is the one the part-time housewife who answers phones might wear, like Kids First license plates.

[h/t Sportress Of Blogitude]

As if having their football team winning the Super Bowl wasn’t enough, the 20 kids who live in Green Bay didn’t have a full day of school the day after the Packers beat the Steelers in Dallas. It’s not like those kids did anything to make the team win. I never saw fat little Billy catch a pass from Aaron Rodgers, although I bet he could drop fewer of them than Jordy Nelson.

Kids in Green Bay have yet another reason to love the Packers. Their Super Bowl victory meant school got out early today so that children and their families could line the streets for the team’s motorcade to Lambeau Field.

The celebration will get in full swing tomorrow afternoon with a Titletown celebration at Lambeau. -USA Today.

I don’t remember being able to get out of school early after the Patriots won any of their three times. This isn’t fair. I want to be able to use those three days now while I’m in college. Whenever I don’t want to go to a class, I’m going to tell my professor that he can suck it, and I’m going to go celebrate New England’s victory over St. Louis. Then, I’ll use the other two Super Bowl days later. I suggest all you fans who never got a half-day when your team won it all protest until you get your Super Bowl reparations… except for Colts fans. They’d just spend the half-day off eating, which is also what I’d do, but I don’t make it look gross when I do.