Remember that elementary school student who sued his school district, saying he was kept from attending a school event with the Vikings because he was wearing a Packers jersey?

A federal judge didn't buy it, siding with school officials from New Prague who contended that it was punishment for previous behavior, not his Packers jersey, that kept him from attending a pizza party at Vikings headquarters with former Viking receiver Cris Carter in December 1999.

Judge Ann Montgomery also wrote there is no constitutional right for a 9-year-old to wear a Packers jersey to school.

The story became favorite fodder for talk radio shows and at water coolers around the Twin Cities when the story broke more than two years ago.

Rocky Sonkowsky, his father, Roy, said, was discriminated against and kept from the event simply because his son favored a Packers jersey to a Vikings one at school.

His comments and the story quickly spread in a region that has fans of the rival NFL teams, and are renowned for the verbal back-and-forth about the teams, particularly during "Packers Week."

Sonkowsky's attorney also claimed the school's actions violated the student's First Amendment rights, and argued that in a lawsuit filed against the district by Sonkowsky's parents.

After the ruling, Sinkowsky told the St. Paul Pioneer Press that he was "disappointed. I probably will appeal because something very wrong was done to my son," he told the newspaper.

He said harassment of his son arising from the lawsuit forced him to transfer school districts.

The newspaper said Montgomery wrote that Sonkowsky's grades didn't suffer, he wasn't expelled from school, and the quality of the education offered him by the district didn't lack because he didn't participate in the field trip so his constitutional rights were not violated.