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By Jay Sorgi

MILWAUKEE - The 12-time NFL champion Green Bay Packers are now the eight-time champions in the online Clicks for Cans contest.

18,000 cans of soup will find their way to Wisconsin food pantries after Packers fans out-clicked Jacksonville Jaguars fans in the online contest.

It's the 8th straight year the Packers have won the competition.

The contest sponsored by Chunky Soup had the packers match up in 17 regular season "games."

They won them all before taking a set of playoff games against the Bears and Saints and the championship triumph over the Jaguars.

 

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Whether it's Karl on a car phone, or Debbie calling in from De Pere, Green Bay Packers' fans want Brett Favre and his Minnesota Vikings to lose this weekend, denying the Vikings the chance to go to the Super Bowl.

Steve (The Homer) True, sports-talk show host on WAUK-AM (540) certainly thinks so.

"If he was playing for the New York Jets, this would be entirely different," True said. "I just can't conceive the Vikings winning their first Super Bowl with Brett Favre.

"Just saying it sounds wrong."

He's right.

The rivalry between fans of the Packers and Vikings is real. And while the Vikings had the upper hand this year (they defeated the Packers twice), Packers fans can always say that the Vikings have never won a Super Bowl (they're 0-4).

True estimates that of the fans calling in to his show, the percentage breakdown is 90% want Favre to lose and 10% of them want Favre to go and win his second Super Bowl, cementing his status as one of the greatest players ever in the National Football League.

"It's real simple. If you are a Brett Favre fan, and nothing else matters, it's the only way you can root for him."

Bill Michaels, sports-talk show host on WTMJ-AM (620), said the majority of callers and e-mails coming to him "are hoping to see Favre go down in flames this weekend.

The Green Bay Packers announced Friday they will raise ticket prices at least $8 on seats inside the stadium bowl, while suite tickets will increase by $11.

The increase is the first since 2007.

Season tickets between the 20-yard lines (sections 115-124 and 322-330) now will be priced at $83, up from $72.

Other sideline seats (sections 109-114, 125-130, 314-320 and 332-338) will be $73, up from $64.

End-zone seats (sections 100-108, 131-138, 303-312 and 340-354) will cost $67, up from $59.

Lambeau Field suite tickets in 2010 will be $83, up from $72; lease rates for suites and club seat ticket prices are set per client contracts.

The Packers will send invoices to season ticket holders next week, with payment due March 31.

The sale of orange Packers caps raised more than $100,000 for hunger relief, the Packers organization said Monday, but who should the money go to?

The Green Bay Packers are now taking applications for hunger relief organizations serving Wisconsin to receive those funds.

• Applications can be found online by clicking here

The Packers hope to split the money among 25 to 30 organizations. Beneficiaries will be announced in late February.

The "Hunting Down Hunger" caps were the latest in a series of fund-raising Packers caps, starting in 2005 with pink caps for breast cancer groups, inspired by Deanna Favre.

Thanks to the Packers' success this season, Sargento Cheese and the Green Bay Packers raised $90,000 to help feed the hungry.

Sargento donated $1,000 to the Wisconsin Hunger Task Force for each touchdown scored by the Packers this season.

The cheesemaker also donated $500 to Paul's Pantry of Green Bay for each touchdown scored by the team's wide receivers and tight ends.

The Touchdowns for Charity donations were doubled for the playoff game.

In the end, Sargento rounded up its total contribution to give $70,000 to the hunger task force and $20,000 to Paul's Pantry.