WASHINGTON — It’s traditional for the mayors of the cities of two NFL teams facing off in the playoffs to make a small, friendly wager on the outcome, and Sunday’s matchup between Washington and Green Bay is no exception.
On Friday, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and Green Bay, Wisc., Mayor Jim Schmitt made a bet and exchanged some barbs.
The wager usually involves local foods, and true to form Green Bay’s mayor is betting Cannery Public Market cheese curds on his city’s team.
Bowser says in a statement, “My home team has been on a roll lately, and I look forward to cheering them on to victory against Green Bay. And when they do win, I look forward to enjoying some of that fine Wisconsin cheese while saying: ‘You like that!’”
The prize for a Packers win will be a supply of half-smokes. Mayor Schmitt says in a statement, “After we smoke Washington, the people of Green Bay will dine on the half smokes sausages offered up by Mayor Bowser.”
The lack of a hyphen and the incorrect pluralization of “half-smoke” is in the original statement.
And just to pull a random fact out of the air, the official logo of the city of Green Bay incorporates the Packers’ logo and the motto “Titletown U.S.A.,” as if the city had nothing else to offer the world. Just saying.
The mayor of the losing team’s city also has to wear the winner’s T-shirt at a mentoring service event.
The game is Sunday at 4:40 p.m.
