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Big Game Burger: Green Packers pack on the venison, beef, bacon, and more

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The NFL playoffs are not for the faint hearted and neither is this massive burgerhemoth served by the Green Bay Packers this postseason. Not content to dog pile linemen onto receivers, the franchise is bringing that tactic to the concession stand with its Big Game Burger. The $20 monster is 1 1/2 lb of meat and toppings held together by two of the hardest working pretzel buns in the country.

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The Four Horsemen of Super Bowl Barbecue

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During the Bare Bones competition at Meatopia Oakland last year, I couldn’t help but hear Chris Lilly talk to his Kingsford buddies about this year’s football season. Mostly because I was eavesdropping. That conversation mutated into the kernel of an idea which grew into a great question: what do some of the biggest and brightest in barbecue do for Super Bowl Sunday?