Can this get more bizzaro?

As usual, it appears Jerry Seinfeld will get the last laugh.

Learning that a Green Bay television station was hoping to disappoint a big fan of his -- New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning -- by pulling a rerun of the “Seinfeld” show scheduled to run this afternoon while the Giants were in town, the comedian struck back.

“I’m going to send Eli a complete collection of ‘Seinfeld’ DVDs and a partial collection of ‘Hogan’s Heroes’ for inspiration,” the comedian told the New York Post on Thursday.

Jay Zollar, general manager of WLUK-TV, got a laugh out of the response, then joked that he was happy Manning “will be up all night watching ‘Seinfeld’ -- there will be no sleep for you!” parodying the “Soup Nazi” episode in which a server admonishes noncompliant costumers with, “No soup for you!”

Manning told the Associated Press on Friday that he found the whole situation “pretty funny,” adding that he’d already seen every episode anyway.

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Trivia time

The Patriots and Chargers square off in the AFC title game Sunday, just as they did 44 years ago on Jan. 5, 1964 (when they were in the American Football League). San Diego routed the then-Boston Patriots, 51-10. Where did the Patriots play their home games that season?

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Silly season

Bitter cold forecast for Lambeau Field isn’t the only obstacle the Giants face in Sunday’s NFC title game. There also are Packers fans’ superstitious rituals.

John Van Alstyne, for instance, flies a faded Packers flag in his front yard all week but takes it down just before the start of each game.

Three times this season he was out of town and forgot to lower it, the same three weeks the Packers lost their only games on their way to a 13-3 record.

Then there’s Joe Sampson, a 26-year-old real estate agent in St. Augustine, Fla.

The night before each game, he sleeps in his Packers pajamas. The next morning, he drinks coffee from his Packers mug. Then he watches the game at a friend’s house, always in the same “lucky” chair.

Said Sampson: “I’m usually a pretty level-headed person -- that’s why saying these things out loud sounds kind of silly -- but on Sunday you’re just a kid.”

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More shivers

Looking ahead to the Packers-Giants game, Tennessee Titans Coach Jeff Fisher said the on-field officials “have the best deal.”

“That’s because they get to dress warm, they get to run around and stay warm, and they don’t have to hit anybody,” he said on the Fox Sports radio network.

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Draft proposal

For a few hours, the St. Louis Blues thought they had a great promotion: Free beer.

The NHL team sent an e-mail to fans trumpeting “Tuesdays on Tap,” which offered unlimited free beverages, including beer, with certain tickets to five home games, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. “You get the tickets, and we’ll get the drinks,” the offer stated.

But hours later the offer was history. “This one is not happening,” Blues executive Peter McLoughlin told the newspaper. Asked why, he said it was a “business decision.”

“We were discussing a lot of creative ideas,” he said. “It’s unfortunate the e-mail went out.”

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Mia mug

The new Women’s Professional Soccer league unveiled its logo that features Hall of Fame player Mia Hamm.

Hamm is depicted kicking a ball in white silhouette against a multi-color backdrop, not unlike the image of a dribbling Jerry West on the NBA’s logo.

The WPS plans to have seven teams, including one in Los Angeles, when it starts play next year.

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Trivia answer

Fenway Park, home of the Red Sox. That AFC title game, incidentally, was played in San Diego -- in front of 30,127.

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And finally

The satirical website etruesports.com says a last-minute snag in negotiations over baseball Commissioner Bud Selig’s three-year contract extension was avoided “when the stipulation that the commissioner ‘be more chipper’ was dropped.”

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