Technically, we live history every day. There has never been another day like the one we're currently in. But, doing what we do on some random Thursday is kind of mundane. There's no excitement, no juice.
Today is different, though. It's Dec. 12, 2012. It's an historic date better known as 12-12-12, which is better known as Aaron Rodgers Day here in Wisconsin.
What better way to celebrate the last consecutive date in our lifetimes? Yes, all of our lifetimes – you can't really assume that any child born today will live to 100, not with all this stuff going on.
So let's celebrate Aaron Rodgers Day. The MVP. The Champ. The Discount Double Check. The sensitive one. The greatest Wisconsinite not born or permanently living in Wisconsin of all time. Awesome.
If you celebrate it the right way, be sure to get in touch with the Style Network and maybe you can get yourself on TV for a Cheesehead-centric reality show.
Of course, if you feel the world will end in nine days, then this is all moot anyway.
Jim Owczarski is an award-winning sports journalist and comes to Milwaukee by way of the Chicago Sun-Times Media Network.
A three-year Wisconsin resident who has considered Milwaukee a second home for the better part of seven years, he brings to the market experience covering nearly all major and college sports.
To this point in his career, he has been awarded six national Associated Press Sports Editors awards for investigative reporting, feature writing, breaking news and projects. He is also a four-time nominee for the prestigious Peter J. Lisagor Awards for Exemplary Journalism, presented by the Chicago Headline Club, and is a two-time winner for Best Sports Story. He has also won numerous other Illinois Press Association, Illinois Associated Press and Northern Illinois Newspaper Association awards.
Jim's career started in earnest as a North Central College (Naperville, Ill.) senior in 2002 when he received a Richter Fellowship to cover the Chicago White Sox in spring training. He was hired by the Naperville Sun in 2003 and moved on to the Aurora Beacon News in 2007 before joining OnMilwaukee.com.
In that time, he has covered the events, news and personalities that make up the PGA Tour, LPGA Tour, Major League Baseball, the National Football League, the National Hockey League, NCAA football, baseball and men's and women's basketball as well as boxing, mixed martial arts and various U.S. Olympic teams.
Golf aficionados who venture into Illinois have also read Jim in GOLF Chicago Magazine as well as the Chicago District Golfer and Illinois Golfer magazines.
