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Super Bowl Town Museums Put Impressionist Art On The Line

Filed under: Art, Sports

Super Bowl XLV is just over a week away and the rivalry between Green Bay and Pittsburgh has heated up. The Milwaukee Art Museum and the Carnegie Museum of Art have decided to make a friendly wager on the football game. The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports that each is offering up an Impressionist work of art. If the Packers win the Carnegie Museum will send over Renoir's "Bathers with Crab" for a temporary loan where visitors can see it and not only take in some beautiful art but gloat a bit too. Should the Steelers prove victorious, "Boating on the Yerres" by Gustav Caillebotte will be taking the journey to the Carnegie.

This is the second year in a row that art critic Tyler Green has prompted a bet. Last year the Indianapolis Museum of Art and the New Orleans Museum of Art squared off which resulted "The Fifth Plague of Egypt", 1800, a landscape by British artist J.M.W. Turner spending a few months in new Orleans where it was displayed with a Lombardi-trophy-shaped sign designating the triumph.

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Chicago Hotel Welcomes Packer Fans

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Filed under: Luxury Travel & Hotels, Sports

It might be a little risky to wear your green and yellow and styrofoam cheese head hat on the streets of Chicago next weekend but one hotel is embracing the Green Bay Packer faithful before the big game. The Omni Chicago Hotel on Michigan Avenue is offering the "Green Bay Bundle" package. The two-night offer will give Green Bay devotees their second night stay free of charge should Green Bay triumph over Chicago in the NFC championship game and also includes a $50 food and beverage credit to use during their stay. Bill Bennett, director of sales and marketing for the Omni Chicago Hotel, Windy City native and die hard Chicago fan, has even agreed to don a Green Bay jersey and "cheesehead" hat if Green Bay wins and personally congratulate Green Bay supporters who check-out of the hotel on Monday, January 24. The "Green Bay Bundle" package is available on January 21, 22 and 23 only and the rate is $179 per night with a free second night should Green Bay win.

In another football-related package, the Liberty hotel in Boston is offering a "Go and Gloat Weekend" in Boston. Starting at just $310, visitors can book the "Big House Breakfast Package," which includes overnight luxury accommodations and breakfast for two in the hotel's signature restaurant CLINK or through In-room dining.

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Bears-Packers Rivalry Spikes Ticket Prices

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Filed under: Sports

Tickets for next Sunday's much-anticipated NFC championship game at Chicago's Soldier Field may rival the Super Bowl in price. The reason of course is the heated rivalry between the Bears and Wisconsin's Green Bay Packers. In the long-standing Midwestern battle royal this is only the second time that the teams have met in the playoffs.

The Chicago Tribune reports that even the worst seats in the frosty upper outreaches of the stadium are selling for around $500 a seat on the secondary market. At StubHub.com seats range from $446 to $20,000 a ticket for the second row. The pricer tickets are generally in the United Club. Local brokers told the Tribune they haven't seen this kind of demand for tickets since the glory days of the Chicago Bulls back in the 1990s. SeatGeek.com shows average seats around $500 from various sources. The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel's Packers blog says that when the Packers competed against the Giants in the NFC game in at Lambeau Field prices averaged over $700 each.

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Football Team Banks Future On Real Estate Investment

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Filed under: Sports

The publicly-owned Green Bay Packers football team can't rely on a deep-pocketed owner for help and so one of the ways that the team is looking out for its future is by investing in real estate. A recent article from WBAY says that the team has picked about around 20 acres to the west and south of their stadium, Lambeau Field. The team is hoping that the investment will bring revenue to the team in the years to come. Businesses like K-mart and Big Lots sit on land the Packers own and the Packers are planning more development. A mix of hotels, restaurants and retail spaces are being created for the surrounding Ashwaubenon area. The village has a population of around 17,000 but Lambeau Field and the practice fields draw many tourists each year.

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Brett Favre's Wisconsin Home, Estate of the Day

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Filed under: Estates, Celebrity Shopping, Sports

Here we are again with another sports celebrity selling a home in the town they used to play for. You might think that former Green Bay Packer quarterback Brett Favre would have one of the most lavish homes in the Green Bay area. You would be wrong. The Real Estalker Mama led me to the listing for Favre's home in Ashwaubenon, Wisconsin which reveals a simple ranch style home in a quiet neighborhood.

One of the Real Estalker's able commenters reports that Favre's main manse is in Hattiesburg, Mississippi and this is just the home he stayed in during the football season. He and his wife, Deanna bought the four-bedroom home in 2005 for $416,000 so it was likely just a temporary home in a town that he was planning not to stay in after he retired from football. This likely explains the decor which seems to have been shipped straight from the local furniture store. It is listed at just $475,000.

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