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Click here to listen to Newsradio 620 WTMJ's Dan O'Donnell report on the best place to party up a Packers victory in New York City.

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It's the biggest game of the year and the biggest party come kickoff on Sunday may be at the biggest secret in the Big Apple; a Packers bar right in the heart of Greenwich Village.

"Packer games are big here," says Kettle O' Fish owner Patrick Daley, who moved to New York from Wauwatosa 28 years ago but, judging by his gameday menu, he's never really left.

"I serve aged cheddar that I get at a place in Marathon, WI," he explains.  "Plus I serve a great summer sausage that I get from Oshkosh and I sell Usinger's brautwurst."

In the city that never sleeps, the Kettle's cheeseheads never stop partying for their Pack.

"A lot of singing and dancing, a whole heck of a lot of celebrating."

Every time the Packers score Sunday, Patrick will play the Packers' fight song, "Go, you Packers! Go!" and on those infrequent occasions the Giants score, he plans to spin "The Bears Still Suck."

While he thought about reworking that into "The Giants Still Suck," old habits are hard to break.  Besides, he's quick to remind anyone who will listen, who are the Bears plying this weekend?

While most armchair "experts" spent their preseason picking Chicago to play Dallas in the NFC Title Game and the Giants and Packers to finish the year somewhere in the neighborhood of 6-10, Patrick stayed true (even if most of his cynical N'Yawk customers thought he was nuts."

"I said they'd finish 10-6," he says in that same earnest tone that makes one believe the five million or so fans who claim to have been at the Ice Bowl.  "Seriously!  I believed Brett Favre when he said this was the most talented team he'd ever played on.  And as for all those people who said he was washed up; I'd just tell them, 'Brett has done so much for that team that if he had to line up under center in a wheelchair, I'd be the one pushing it." 

"Packer fans are Packer fans.  We're a different breed and that's not going to change.  I've been living in New York since 1980. I've never wavered.  I don't know any true Packer fan that's ever wavered."