For the next six months many people will be unavailable for what seems like interminable chunks of time. Life will be transformed. It is the beginning of the football season, bringing with it excitement, passion and drama for millions of fans. One Astoria resident’s involvement with football is way beyond the ordinary. Aaron Nagler is a football analyst, a journalist and the co-founder of CheeseheadTV, the largest and most successful independent Green Bay Packers fan website in the world. His passion for one team has created a unique relationship with the team, its players and management, and, most importantly perhaps, its fans. Nagler has an encyclopedic knowledge of the triumphs and idiosyncrasies of the game and has been widely quoted by CNN, Sports Illustrated and the New York Times. He also appears regularly on several national NFL radio programs. He was taken to his first Green Bay Packers game at Lambeau Field when he was 3, and his love affair with the team has continued unabated since then. CheeseheadTV had few readers to begin with, but he and his co-founder, Corey Behnke, were delighted when the audience of Packers fans grew over time, as they kept blogging and delivering what Packers fans love the most — news about the Packers. Nagler now has over 24,000 followers on Twitter, a number that will undoubtedly grow over this next NFL season. “I hadn’t planned to be a football analyst or journalist. I came to New York to be an actor,” says Nagler. After earning a degree in acting from North Carolina School of the Arts, he began his acting career winning interesting roles in off-Broadway shows and national tours, including “The Full Monty.” By this time Nagler had married his wife Carolyn and had a daughter, with another one on the way (he now has three daughters who are, of course, Packers fans). Traveling around the U.S. while on tour was not a good life for a family man. And Nagler wanted something else. Fortunately, at this time he took a position with the TOUCHDOWN
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