That was the headline in the Milwaukee Journal/Sentinel sports page today. In BIG BLACK LETTERS.
Yes, that's right, "TEEM!"
HUH!?!?[grin1]

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in response to being asked about it, the journal sentinel had this to say:

"We did hear from some readers – probably about a dozen who called or emailed – and we explained that it was a play on words, not a misspelling. The headline and the use of the word “teem” was intended to describe the swarming nature of the Packers defense. Perhaps it was too clever at the expense of clarity. "

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I can just see it....in the Journal press room.....
"TEEM!?!? Where is SPELL CHECK!?!? Crap....ok.....how do we NOT look like idiots on this? Oh, heck.....99.9% of the people that read this paper probably won't even catch the mistake."[-x [grin1]

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Understandable.

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Their response did not spell it out enough for a dumb guy like me. Is is the use of double e's to represent bee's which swarm?

TEEM = BEES = Swarming?

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Teem:

verb

Be full of or swarming with: "every garden is teeming with wildlife".

Bit of stretch in this context though.

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I was fortunate enough to get an early copy of tomorrow's sports page for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. It states as follows:

GREEEN BAY PAKKERS WIL BEET THE SEEATTLE SEEHAWKZ ON MUNDAY NITE FOTBALLL!
(C storee beelow)
Green bay Pecker qartebak Erin Roggers looks two have a beetter showing aganst the Sewhawz. We interveewed him at lenth to cee whut hiz thots were abowt the upcumming game. He sad, "I tink my tyming haz ben a little down frum last ceasun, butt with sum prakiss, that willl bee korrektid. Haveing Dunld Dryver tooo alwayz fal back on is a greet thin. Dubble DD alwayz cums thru fore us when wee kneed him the must. Itz good to have a veteranarin guy lik him when the chipps are down. And Randall Kob has ben showin sum greet muves and haz ben a greet additshun to are reciving corpse. And Sederick Bemsin haz brot are runnning game bak two life two. I scee greet tings four this TEEM in the cummming ceason! Itz Souper Bole or Busst fore us ass wee cee it!"
Koach McKarty chimmed in to say, "I love thios Souper Bole tawk, butt wee have too tak it won gamme at a tyme. I kant gett two ecksited oar tooo down abowt won winn oar won losss. Butt itz nise two no that are TEEM leader, Air-in, is keepin pasative abowt our upcumming gamez. Allso, are deefence showd that they r redee to show the wurld that they r much improvved over lasst seesun. Charllze Wudsun shwd that he stilll haz sum moves on the playying feeld with hiz intersepshun of Jay Kutlerz airent passs. And how bout Klay Mathuse? Iz he a beest, oar whut? Hez on pase too mak a seeson rekurd of sax if he kan kee pit up alll seesun. I cee greet things four this TEEM! Wee jus have two core ect the hi padd level."

Ape-EE-EYE, YOU-PEE-EYE, E-EYE-E-AYE-OH
[duh] [grin1]

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Maybe the play of words were "to give birth" to an NFL caliber Defense. 🙂

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