Duel in Dallas: Mayors Bet Cheese, BBQ

Cheese and BBQ are among the bounty offered in the bet placed on the Packers-Cowboys game between the mayors of the competing cities. | Photos: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

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Duel in Dallas: Mayors Bet Cheese, BBQ

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GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) -- Mayor Jim Schmitt is a betting man, and he's hoping the Packers bring home the barbecue Thursday night.

Schmitt and Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert bet dinner -- or at least a substantial snack -- on the much-anticipated Packers-Cowboys match.

If the Packers win, Leppert will send barbecue and sweet tea to Green Bay, where it will be served after the Dec. 18 City Council meeting.

If the Cowboys win, Schmitt has promised 10 pounds of Sargento cheese and a gift basket of football-shaped summer sausage from Three Hounds Gifts in Berlin.

This is the second bet Schmitt has made with rival cities. He won a collection of Motown music and Motor City memorabilia from Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick after the Packers defeated the Lions on Thanksgiving Day.

Leppert said he doubts the Green Bay mayor will be so lucky this week.

"I'm confident that T.O. and Romo will make sure that our good Texas barbecue stays where it's truly appreciated," he said in a statement.

He also expressed curiosity about Wisconsin sausages.

"I'm looking forward to getting that basket of football-shaped sausages," he said. "I've never seen something like that."

Schmitt said there's already been talk about a third bet if the Packers and Cowboys meet again in the playoffs.

"We've been thinking of some options," he said in a news release. "But I don't know if Mayor Leppert is prepared to wear a Cheesehead and Brett Favre jersey for an entire Dallas council meeting."

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