It’s probably a sign of instability, but as I sat down to watch the Minnesota-Green Bay game last Sunday, I experienced amazement and then annoyance as the Packer cheese-heads actually booed their soon-to-be-Hall-of-Fame former quarterback, Brett Favre, as he took the field in Green Bay in another team’s jersey for the first time.

 In high school football Saturday, it’s six of one and a half-dozen of another as the European semifinals get underway at six sites around the continent. The six winners will move on to the annual football championship tripleheader at Baumholder, scheduled this year for Nov. 7. The half-dozen who come up short will hand in their pads.

      If you get a chance to take in one of this week’s games, do yourself a favor and go. Mismatch games are a thing of the past by this time, the weather’s expected to be dry at all six venues, and admission charges are nominal. Kickoffs are 1 p.m.

·        Sports takes to the air

AFN-Europe is giving us something old and something new this week,

Former SHAPE football star Alejandro Villaneuva, a senior at the U.S Military Academy, hauled in his fourth touchdown pass of the season Saturday in Army’s 27-13 loss to Temple.

Villanueva, a 6-10, 283-pound – and this is no mistake – wide receiver, has caught 16 passes for 253 yards in seven games this season, his first as a pass-catcher. Last year, Villanueva started every game at left tackle after playing on the defensive line his first two seasons at West Point.

According to the Army Sports Information Department, new Army coach Rich Ellerson moved Villaneuva, now called “Ali,” to wide-out to provide a large perimeter target for the Army offense.

Jump-balls may be in the offing for this year’s Army-Navy game.

USAFE sports chief Tom Burkett reported Tuesday that 22 racquetball players turned out for the 2009 USAFE Armed Forces Racquetball Championships, opening event of the 2009-2010 season.

Ramstein’s Paul Clark and Heidelberg’s James Johnson each won gold and silver medals, according to Burkett. Clark beat Johnson for the open crown; then placed second to Johnson in the seniors’ (35 years and older) finale.

Mannheim’s Kevin Comer prevailed in the men’s B category over Spangdahlem’s Christopher McDaniels, and Ramstein’s Christopher D’Avino topped the men’s C field over runner-up Sid Maru of San Antonio, Texas.

Roberta Wemhoff downed fellow Ramsteiner Lisa Behar for the women’s title, Burkett reported.

Football fans in Europe should get acquainted, if they’re not already, with the Web site www.hsfootballeurope.net.

If you’re a Buffalo Bills’ fan, you have my sympathy. And not just because of the team’s lack of success in the post-Marv Levy era.

Nope, where you earn my condolences is for the cavalier way AFN television has treated the Bills’ first two games this year.

This blogger might have been on vacation, but some former DODDS-Europe standouts have wasted no time making names for themselves at the next level.

Former Heidelberg High School All-European Fallon Puppolo registered two assists last month as the Naval Academy won the 2009 Navy Soccer Invitational, according to the Academy’s Web site. Puppolo, a freshman, was one of four Middies named to the all-tournament team.