By OnMilwaukee Staff Writers   Published Jan 07, 2003 at 5:31 AM

So, the Packers are out of the playoffs. The season is over, and now you are finding yourself with a bunch of spare time on Sundays. Don't sit at home and mope. Do something productive this winter -- tackle one or more of OMC's list of 100 things to take your mind off the Packers:

  1. Play cribbage in your favorite coffee shop. Try not to shout at your opponent like you shout at NFL refs.
  2. Finally learn how to play Euchre or Sheepshead now that you're sober enough on Sundays to remember all the rules.
  3. Rent one of those movies that you never saw that every time you tell someone you've never seen they say "WHAT? YOU NEVER SAW ...?"
  4. Play pinball at the Landmark.
  5. Redesign the cheesehead hat.
  6. Play shuffleboard at Thurman's.
  7. Call your grandma (she misses you).
  8. Ice skate at The Pettit.
  9. Join a club and exercise, then treat yourself to dinner somewhere fancy or not-so-fancy.
  10. Go to a matinee -- movies, plays, ballets, etc.
  11. Invite friends over for an early evening fondue or go to Cafe Vecchio Mondo for one of their yummy FUNdues.
  12. Go antiquing in the Third Ward.
  13. Brunch at M&M club to prove football fans are not homophobes.
  14. Calculate the the square footage of Mark Belling's forehead and compare in size to the available retail space at Northridge.
  15. Drive around the city with a camera full of film and take photos of whatever strikes your fancy.
  16. Knit all of the Packers matching slippers.
  17. Restore something old.
  18. Go to the Humane Society just to swoon at cute animals.
  19. Make soup or stew while listening to your favorite CD and drinking.
  20. Get a massage.
  21. Make mix CDs with lots of bands from Green Bay for your friends.
  22. Finally watch the DVD you got for Christmas.
  23. Call Chinese restaurants in Brown County and order food for Packers.
  24. Shopping therapy: Go to Target and blow $100 on candles, frames, wrapping paper and underwear.
  25. Write a letter or e-mail to people you haven't spoken to in many years. Feel free to enhance your successes since you can't brag about Packers.
  26. Floss.
  27. Visit the Domes (it's nice and warm).
  28. Go bowling (2-for-1 at Bay View Bowl).
  29. Go shopping at an outlet mall in Kenosha.
  30. Buy tiny bottles of liquor at the Mars Cheese Castle.
  31. Paint a room of your house something other than green and gold.
  32. Play a season of Madden 2003 on your Playstation 2 and make sure the Packers win this time.
  33. Pack away your Packers clothes until next fall.
  34. Roast your own Packers blend coffee.
  35. Go to Art Smart's Dart Mart, buy green 'n gold juggling balls and learn to juggle.
  36. Invite your friends over for a build-your-own sundae Sunday.
  37. Paint your face and bare chest green and gold and go to the mall.
  38. Invite your gal pals over for cosmos and "Sex And The City" reruns.
  39. Buy a ticket to Maryvale for Brewers spring training.
  40. Start "labor trading" with friends: you help a friend with a project one Sunday afternoon and they help you the following Sunday.
  41. Eat at every George Webb in the city. Nothing like grease to get your mind off of football.
  42. Smell the oils at Outpost for some post-season aromatherapy.
  43. Scrub the inside of your oven to clean the crusty cheese drippings from the frozen pizzas you ate during the season.
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  45. Play fantasy football.
  46. Pick your fantasy baseball team.
  47. Write Packers poetry/limericks (something surely rhymes with "Longwell").
  48. Go to the Milwaukee Art Museum. After all that football you need a little sophistication.
  49. Fire up the PC and surf OMC all day.
  50. Make a green and gold Jell-O mold and watch it wiggle.
  51. Day trip it to Chicago but do not even think about becoming a Bears fan.
  52. Prepare for NFL draft by reading all college team scouting reports.
  53. Attend Wave, Admirals, Bucks, college hoops or other sporting event and pretend you're at Lambeau.
  54. Shop Brady Street for Packer gear. When you don't find any, go to the Nomad.
  55. Walk to Summerfest, pray for warm weather.
  56. Buy your Brewers season tickets now.
  57. Sleep in.
  58. Buy new Zubaz pants for next season.
  59. Volunteer.
  60. Count the number of elephants in the Oriental Theatre's lobby.
  61. Shop for black velvet paintings at thrift stores.
  62. Toss the ol' football in your yard with the kids.
  63. Walk The Streets Of Old Milwaukee and feel sorry for folks from "the olden days" who couldn't watch Packers games on TV.
  64. Read "War and Peace" and compare or contrast it to modern football.
  65. Dumpster dive like you saw Driver dive for the ball.
  66. E-mail your friends and ask them not to forward stupid football e-mails to you anymore.
  67. Get a life, get over it ... it's only football.
  68. Pretend there is snow, fire up the Toro.
  69. Check out a neighborhood that you've never visited.
  70. Search Ebay for a Terry Glenn bobble pass doll.
  71. Do the Lambeau Leap onto your own couch over and over again.
  72. Organize your class reunion.
  73. Buy a new bed, or at least test a bunch out at the store.
  74. Rent the first season of "24" on DVD.
  75. Organize your personal finances.
  76. Dance to the reggae at DJ Eric Blowtorch's Sunday night Onopa Brewing record spin.
  77. Go to The Packers Hall of Fame in Green Bay.
  78. Write fan mail to Favre, thanking him for record number of consecutive starts.
  79. Shift your sports focus and start following high school volleyball.
  80. Re-watch videotapes of the games from this season (drinking heavily may help you forget the outcomes).
  81. Tailgate in your garage.
  82. Write a made-for-TV movie about the life of Bart Starr.
  83. Spend the day roaming American Science and Surplus.
  84. Go to the library.
  85. Make donuts, trying to match the Krispy Kreme recipe.
  86. Apply for the next Survivor.
  87. Now's the time to buy a Packers jersey, they are sure to be on sale!
  88. Put those old photos in a photo album.
  89. Try kickboxing.
  90. Say "Pack 'er? I don't even know her!" over and over again until someone throws something at your head.
  91. Watch Home Shopping Network. Spend your Christmas bonus.
  92. Apply for the soon to be open Offensive Coordinator job. (It ought to be pretty easy, you only need six plays).
  93. Build Gilbert Brown snowman and try to tackle it.
  94. Mold Christmas fruitcake into a football. Eat football. Mmmmmm...
  95. Go on a meat packing tour to commemorate the origin of the team name.
  96. Spend Sunday looking forward to new Simpsons episodes rather than Packers games.
  97. Watch bizarre programming on ESPN during NFL playoffs (Cattle-roping, lumberjack contests, World's Strongest Man Competition.)
  98. Walk off all the brats you ate during the season.
  99. Be thankful you're not as fanatical of a Packers fan as the guys who shot Dan Devine's dog.
  100. Tie son's left arm behind back and groom him to be Favre's replacement in 2017.
  101. Pitchers and catchers report February 15.