Green Bay Joins The NFC Playoff Party
Ugh. We were so damn close to not having to deal with another year of the Green Bay Packers in the playoffs. I know they aren’t technically in yet, and they are still on the outside looking in, but with Rodgers returning doesn’t it kind of feel inevitable? The same way the Patriots in the AFCCG feels inevitable? You don’t want it to happen, but it’s going to happen, and we all know it. Rodgers is gonna run the table, sneak in as a 5th seed or something, then end up in the NFCCG because of Rodgers bullshit. They probably won’t win the game because Rodgers bullshit isn’t quite as strong as Patriots bullshit, but the fact that they are there is already annoying.
If you’ve followed this site for any amount of time really it should be obvious I’m a big fan of variety. Of chaos. Of unpredictability. Not knowing who is going to make it is exciting. I like having some front runners and some perpetual losers to keep things from total chaos, but generally I would prefer to see things switch up frequently enough to keep things interesting. For me and for other fans. How awesome would it be to always feel like you could be 3-4 seasons away from suddenly being the new Seahawks? You could stomach that. My favorite divisions are the ones that really switch it up. The NFC East changes from year to year, last year the Eagles were the worst. Look at them now. Last year the Cowboys and Giants made the playoffs. Now look at it. The Skins won the division the year before that. The East switches it up and it’s more fun. The NFC South is even better about it. The Falcons, Saints, Panthers and even the Bucs have traded good years this past decade. On the opposite side, the AFCE is a snorefest of the same shit every year, and the NFC North is pretty much always the Packers and then one of the other teams occasionally sneaks in.
I was actually really looking forward to the NFC playoffs this season and I hope to god the Packers stay out, because I’m bored of the Packers. Look at what we’ve got. The Eagles are the best team in football and before Wentz went down probably the favorite. They are new and fresh and we haven’t seen this team in this form yet. The Rams? Even more of a crazy out of nowhere story. The Vikings? This defense is incredible, the QB is fun, and the Vikings have lots of neat young talent. The Panthers are always fun with Cam out there; dude is a ball to watch. The Saints new fancy defense and running game are new things from this team and it has reinvigorated interest. The Falcons remain interesting with that offense. The past few years of NFC staples are kind of on the fringe. The Seahawks are flawed and hurt and Russ (one of the most fun players in the game to watch) is playing out of his mind. The Cowboys are on the fringe, but even they are kind of fresh faced now. The Lions have an outside chance but lol, nah, we know that won’t happen. This was going to be a really fun, fresh playoff picture. Especially compared to the AFC which is like the Jaguars and Chargers plus the usual crap.
Go away for a year or two, Packers, like the Saints had the decency to do. I don’t need to see Rodgers be a hero anymore, I’ve seen it. I’ve seen the man turn hail marys into routine. Rodgers is the best QB in football and he’s a snore because of it. I loved the shit out of Favre, because even though Favre always made the Packers competitive, you never knew what the fuck Brett was gonna do. Maybe this is why I love Eli so much: he’s the same way. Is Eli gonna throw a ball directly to a linebacker or drop a total dime for a 53 yard TD out of nowhere? Who knows! He’s 100% capable of both at any point. Rodgers is just flat out amazing to the point of clockwork and that’s super boring if you aren’t a Packers fan. When you reach that level, the tension and excitement comes from the few times when things aren’t going well for them and they might actually have issues.
Since this is our designated “trash the packers” safe space comic let’s dump on the fans too, why not? We’re all angry here. All fandoms have a bad stereotype generalization about them that is just fair enough to justify itself. Eagles fans are angry. Seahawks fans are bandwagon dummies. Giants fans are New Yorkers (shudders). Browns fans are depressed. Bills fans are a bunch of drunk crazy people. Ravens fans are a bunch of EVERYONE IS AGAINST US whiners. Cowboys fans have never lived in Dallas. Steelers fans ditto, but about Pittsburgh. Jets fans are like Giants fans, but less snooty and more yelly. 49ers fans won’t shut the fuck up about the 80’s. Titans fans are just happy to be here. You get my drift. Packers fans are also the worst, in their own unique condescending way. Packers fans (who are frequently not from nor have never lived in Green Bay) are a bunch of condescending boobs who love to throw the “history! Vince lombardi! Lambeau field is a mecca! We’re a legendary franchise!” crap out all the time like the rest of us should be worshiping the team as a god. Packers fans see Rodgers coming back and don’t understand why the rest of us groaned, because “Rodgers is the best QB, that’s good for football, how can you be mad about that?”. You root for a team that spent decades in the gutter before Favre showed up and the town of Green Bay is a frozen wasteland dump that circlejerks the Pack because there’s nothing else worthwhile there. Even Buffalo is more interesting than Green Bay. You own .000008th stock of the team? Good for you, jump in a dumpster and let me push it downhill.
Now, I will only accept Green Bay hate in the comments below, because that’s the theme of the day. You can be Packers positive on the next comic. Today is for the hate. Let’s do it boys. Unload. Be as relentlessly and pointlessly mean as you wish. Hit me with every Packers hate you got. Let’s roast ’em.
Edit: The Packers got beaten by the Panthers and Rodgers threw 3 picks for the first time since ’09 maybe we shall be spared this crap after all
DOUBLE EDIT: THEY ARE ELIMINATED I JINXED THEM WE DID IT I want to thank all of you for your support in these Packers hating efforts.
My team beat the Packers in the infamous Golden Tate game five years ago and because it was the Holy Packers my team got dragged through the mud for a whole year. On NFL.com’s weekly Power Rankings, every single week had had the Seahawks’ record with a big fat asterisk next to it. Tony Kornheiser went on ESPN and said that defensive coordinators tell their teams to break Russell Wilson’s legs as payback. When the Seahawks made it into the playoffs with a #5 seed the narrative among opposing fans was that we only made it in because of the replacement refs despite the fact that had we lost that game, we’d have gone 10-6 and still been the #5 seed in the playoffs.
And you’d better believe the Packers milked that game for all the sympathy they could get. They didn’t just lose a football game in a controversial manner like literally every team in the NFL does at some point. Oh no, they were the sacrificial lambs, too good and pure for this cruel world, whose sacrifice brought back the normal refs who we all endlessly bitch about. And that martyr complex has never left.
Fuck Tony Kornheiser.
I never heard about the Kornheiser thing. That seems a bit excessive, Wilson didn’t do anything wrong.
I would have been 100% behind him encouraging people to break Tate’s legs though. That guy is an unbelievable asshole.
More like sacrificial lions actually since lambs wouldn’t have had impact on what happened. But yeah the whole thing gets ridiculous because if the Seahawks were that bad, then they wouldn’t even have a positive W-L record to begin with. They proved themselves to be the real deal since then.
Plus the Packers went and lost to Christian Ponder in the last game so fuck them and their whining.
Why’d you have to do that to Wilson?
They get in every year, Farve v Sapp is my only my fun memory of the packers (he even “retired” the same day as Sapp: March 4th, 2007). The Packers are just the Pats minus the hoodie. They lucked into Rodgers because Gruden hates rookies. I miss the NFC Central.
Also, apparently the Bills are the AFC #6 seed
It’s the bills they’ll screw it up and one of the Chargers,Chiefs,Ravens will take the 6th seed and light the fire on the bills eventual dumpster fire of an off-season once they let go of Tyrod and commit to Peterson as their QB of the future.
Sean McDermott will feud with the Cool Beane and a bunch of rumors will fly around about how Beane wanted to keep Tyrod and McDermott was power hungry. The next season will unfold and the bills will go 7-9 to 9-7 after signing *Insert veteran scrapyard QB that was pretty decent and makes McDermott looke like he never needed Tyrod* gets fired after the season for missing the playoffs and the ole Beane will slowly ruin the bills for the next 5 seasons.
Also I really hope one day someone buys up all of the Packers stock (God the effort that would take)and officially becomes the owner just so they can’t say “the fans own the team”
Not for long
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiaBRtImvYU
I mean really you wanna play this game? Okay buddy lets do it. I take your wild card game against the injured secondary hail mary and raise you a divisional round Hail Mary that helped put down a 15-1 season :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIzOEHKQPqg
Remember when the Packers collapsed in the first round that year? Good times. Though I’m a Patriots fan so maybe it would have been better if the giants lost.
Not only that, I kinda get the feeling the refs blew couple of calls just so the Packers could lose with some dignity. The game was somewhat more lopsided.
Yeah, the refs had two horrible calls keep Packers drives alive. Greg Jennings fumbled that ball and the late hit on Osi were both BS.
Fortunately, with that loss, the Packers are out for good. I can tell you though I’m never sold on the Vikings, except this year. Good quarterback, great defense, good offense and a great coach. HOWEVER, when it comes down to it, we choke. I’m confident we’ll get to the championship game, not the Superbowl, which sucks because home-field advantage in that game would be amazing.
I really don’t get why QBs get credit for Hail Mary’s. They throw that ball in a sea of players, most of whom are from the opposing team. WRs should get the credit for that.
I agree with that, the WR makes this happen more than the QB does.
hey remember when michael dog-fighter vick beat the shit out of the packers at lambeau in the first round of the playoffs
i lol’d
Remember what happened to the last NFC QB who rushed his return debut after a broken collar bone against the Panthers?
Packers fans are the most delusional people ever. They call a shithole city Titletown based on winning a bunch of NFL championships when no one cared about the NFL. Green Bay had a heyday when Baseball was America’s game. Boxing and Horseracing were both bigger than NFL football. It was only in the Super Bowl era that the NFL became relevant. Green Bay claims to have won the first two. But when they were played, they weren’t even called Super Bowls. You can’t retroactively become a Super Bowl champ. And in an age when NFL teams are playing in luxurious new stadiums, these chuckleheads squat on aluminum heat sinks in freezing weather. No wonders they are the second most drunken fan base, (after Buffalo), in sports.
Keenum for MVP
AMEN!!!
You forgot the other most annoying oft-repeated thing: “We don’t have a owner.” or “Actually, we have *lots* of owners, because we’re community.”
I’m a Bears fan. I lived in the Northeast Wisconsin area for several years (about 30 minutes from Green Bay). Honestly, it’s a pretty nice place. Not much to do, but it’s just a small Midwestern town, boring but quaint and nice to live in. My real hatred for the Packers? Their fucking fans. These are generally nice, decent people, but when they’re in their Packer fan mode, they have to be some of the dumbest fans in sports.
First, they have so much tunnel vision when it comes to the Packers. Most of these “fans” couldn’t name the QB of half the other teams in the league, but all they know is “Radgas” this and “McCarthy” that. On top of that, their fans think that their passage to the playoffs is a God-given right. They think the Packers deserve to be in contention every year because the organization does things right and they are a small town whose entire livelihood and happiness is dependent on the Pack, and since they are holier-than-thou, they deserve to be in the playoffs. They legitimately think the NFL universe revolves around them. It’s mind-boggling how close-minded these people are to the rest of the NFL. It’s fine to be a fan of a team and not the sport as a whole, but to think that you as a fanbase are just better because your team managed to luck into two great QBs in a row is delusional. I can’t wait for Green Bay’s reckoning – someday these fans will realize that the Packers aren’t heaven-sent.
The Packers have only won as many Super Bowls in the Favre/Rodgers eras as have the Giants in the much shorter Eli era. Favre was way overrated. Rodgers has been around a long time and has won one.
I don’t get that. They have won 2 SBs in the last 20yrs. Granted, they have been competitive off and on, but to feel like the seas must part ways so that they may head to the playoff seems odd. Steelers, Indy (until recently), Seahawks and Denver in the 2010s, have more to brag about I think.
To be honest, other than a certain music teacher, the Packer fans I have met have been pretty cool. All two of them.
As a Bears fan whose liver is still hanging on, this is my response to Entitledtown
Without Halas and Mara putting up the TV Revenue Sharing plan back in the 60s, we’d be talking about how the San Die…LA Packers can’t fill a soccer stadium
They might have gone out of business, but they wouldn’t have moved. The team is set up so that even if a majority of the shareholders wanted to sell, which is a big if itself, no one can profit from the sale. Any money beyond left over after the team’s debts are paid has to go to charity, not the shareholders. The people making the decision would have no incentive to sell.
No matter who the shareholders were in the 60s, had the revenue deal not been made, they wouldn’t have sustained a loss for long.
I actually don’t have much negative to say about the Packers or their fans. The thing that annoys me is how much hack announcers are up on Green Bay’s nuts all the time.
Plus they always get calls in their favor because heaven forbid they be held to the same standards as other teams. Same thing with the the Patriots. It’s nauseating to watch those games between the announcing and officiating.
Fucking tell me about it. Josh Gordon was carrying a Packer through his route nearly every play last week.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DPcIZmrVwAAuafc.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWL6j0SvqV0
Hey Dave could you tone down the shadows under the eyebrows, it kinda makes everybody seem a little cavemanish.
in the 21st century the packers have started a hall a fame quarterback pretty much every single game. their team has been stacked for decades and they only have 1 superbowl appearance to show for it. 17 straight years of brett and aaron and only once they won a superbowl. because of that one superbowl people tend to forget how much rodgers chokes anyway. seriously. he chokes alot. He choked away the wild card game against the fucking cardinals, twice. he choked away a 15-1 season against the giants one and done. he choked away the season against kaep, twice. he lost by 30+ points against the literally kings of choking, the falcons. and of course we can’t forget about the choke against the seahawks.
Its sort of like peyton manning. if you take away that one 2006 season his whole career is falconing the colts’ amazing season against the pats and steelers year after year. both peyton manning and aaron rodgers are both big fat chokers who’s only victories are the result of someone else choking. (pats 21-3 and the bears in 2010)
Since you already went about halfway, I think it’s be interesting to hear your stereotypes for every NFL fan base.
Is Rodgers going to emphatically push Mini-Russ out of the playoffs? The guy will probably lead them in, then win Comeback Player of the Year and the MVP at the same time while everyone talks about how cool Green Bay is. I hope the Vikings ‘Publically Own” them at Lame-beau field. Also, Fire Mike McCarthy! Because that’s what all the Packer fans wanted last year at one point anyways.
I like to hate-watch the Packers too but why would we be rooting for Seahawks/Panthers/Falcons? Those teams have all been in the Super Bowl more recently and at least Rodgers is fun to watch. Would love to see The Eagles vs. The Walrus; unfortunately that’s looking less and less likely.
Rodgers isn’t fun to watch: he’s boring because he’s flawless. Even Russ has bad games. The Hawks are the only team I might put on the same level as the Packers. All 4 have been in SBs but only the Packers and Hawks have actually won it. So to me rooting for the Falcons/Panthers over the Packers is a no-brainer.
He’s fun to watch because he pulls off miracle plays that nobody else can pull off. He always has a terrible defense so he engineers miracle comebacks. Same reason it was fun to watch Eli throw helmet-catches against the Patriots in the Super Bowl, I’ll take that any day over a Matt Ryan robot. Brady is boring to watch because he just stands motionless in the pocket and dinks and dunks his way into the end zone; Peyton Manning was the same way. I wish Rodgers would lose more often (like yesterday!) but arguing he doesn’t make the game exciting probably means you’re looking at the scoreboard without watching the games. I’ll give you Cam though, watching him on when he’s on a roll is pretty awesome.
The thing is that Rodgers is practically perfect. They always have had the same guys (Rodgers, Cobb, Matthews, etc.) and they always have to be the “underdog killers”. They murdered the Giants and Cowboys and dimmed the Lions down to the lowest seed all in one season (16-17). They’re just the Steelers of the NFC. They always make the playoffs and eventually the NFCCG but never make the SB so what even is the point
There’s a very good chance of Barr hurting Rodgers again.
“The Pack” is a stupid nickname
Packers are the luckiest team due to two people: Favre and Rodgers. I can’t think of another team that has had only two quality QBs start every game for the past ~30 years, two players in the most important position in all team sports. I’m just glad Madden doesn’t broadcast anymore so I don’t have to listen to his Favre lust for 60 minutes while I’m trying to watch the Vikings. F**k them F**king F**kers.
Yeah but honestly drafting a good qb is such a crapshoot, it seems like almost everyone is lucky. Literally any of the teams in the first 198 picks good have gotten Brady, but the Pats got lucky. If Drew Brees hadn’t gotten injured then the Saints wouldnt have gotten them, so they got lucky.
Aaron Rodgers is a system quarterback
Yep. Just like Brady, Montana, and Johnny Unitas
Yup. “System Quarterback” is Hoosier-speak for anyone who threatens their Lord and Savior, Fivehead.
Honestly the system would fail if a truly crappy QB gets put there. If the Pats choose Rattay over Brady, the 2001 team would be fighting for a top spot in the 2002 draft.
Very true. But the Indy fans use the term to support their belief that Manning is the GOAT. That is like believing in a flat earth, or believing that “Titletown” means anything outside of Wisconsin.
Yeah it gets overused to the point it makes you want to punch someone for using the term again.
This could all be over Sunday if the Panthers can pull through. I predicted a loss against the Vikings and a victory against the Packers before the season even started. I was wrong last week, hopefully not twice in a row…
I really think that Green Bay is Aaron Rogers and a bunch of guys and that without him they are little better than an 0 – 16 team. I think the fan base is delusional in thinking that when he comes back they can run the table and win the Superbowl.
New Orleans, Philadelphia, Minnesota, LA Rams, Seattle, Carolina and Atlanta would all crush GB in the playoffs.
That’s the thing. We’re actually a better team than they are without Rodgers. We’re poised for the greatest single-season turnaround in professional sports history if we can just find a decent QB.
As a former Chicagoan ( transplanted into Boston in 1990 and now drinking Pats Kool-aid), I have an ingrown hatred of the Packers. Their dorky “doonk, BOINK, da-doo-doo-doo GO! PACK! GO!” cheer makes me want to hurl something at the TV. I still love when Fridge Perry was doing his Schtick and in one Packers game they brought in all these huge guys when Fridge came in – big 350-400 pound guys like you find clogging the aisles of the Piggly Wiggly hoarding brats and cheese curds and – and then Fridge went in motion and caught a pass. The look on those dumbfounded faces still makes me laugh.
I love how you drew Russell Wilson
the packers have had back to back HOF qb’s and have been to the super bowl 3 times since 1996 and have only won 2 of them.
the nfc N is the afcS of the nfc, and the undeserved sense of pride from beating the bears and lions every year is just astounding.
oh, theyre publically owned? how many decisions were you involved with? OH NONE? THATS RIGHT…
oh, theyre gonna run the table? until seattle comes to town.
pack fans are delusional too. AARON RODGERS IS THE BEST QB OF ALL TIME EVER, SINCE THE INCEPTION OF THE GAME ITS NOT HIS FAULT EVERYONE EXCEPT OLD MAN JORDY NELSON AND HIS BUM ASS KNEES ARE CANCER. WEEEERE GONNA RUN THE TABLE AGAIN, DESPITE NOT RUNNING IT THE FIRST TIME, BUT THIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIS YEAR, WERE GONNA DO IT,
then when it doesnt happen, like clockwork they say;
coaches? AXE ‘EM
O and D coordinators?? AXE ‘EM
I think the worst thing about the packers and pack fans is just the general overratedness of it all. i mean, objectively speaking, ask any packer fan, ask them “what makes aaron just SO great” and before they can answer ask if its losing to the seahawks every. single. year. when (if they even make it that far) or some random rex grossman sex bombs, but follow it up with “yeah any dopey tard could chuck it with tard strength”
point is, nothing said as to WHY a-rodge is so great cant be challenged with simple view of the tape.
a-rodge record against Seahawks: 6-2 regular season, 1-1 playoffs
To fulfill the Packers hate requirement, I’d like to suggest that you go after our consistently abysmal defense. That’s much more fertile ground. You could talk about the 2009 season when our entire defensive strategy was to rely on a-rodge to put us up by so much that opposing teams would have to abandon the run game and make risky passes in an attempt to keep up. Our defense sucked so much that the vacuum would draw the ball in towards our defensive backs. This strategy worked for the regular season but of course fell apart in the playoffs in a hilarious fashion when we faced the Cardinals.
Aaron Rodgers has never won a playoff game against the Seahawks. In 2007 he sat on the bench while Brett Favre beat them but that really doesn’t count.
Fan stereotype cartoon by team? That would be fun.
Sounds like a good offseason series when the football news is slow.
David, I gotta wonder if you might have it backwards. Maybe you don’t like Eli because you’re a fan of chaos, you’re actually a fan of chaos because you’re a Giant’s fan? Perhaps, since you’re a fan of team and QB, that vacillates wildly between success and derp, you’ve convinced yourself that this is actually a positive quality in order to keep a cheerful attitude?
I’m asking because as much as I loved watching Favre play, I’d take Aaron Rodgers any day of the week (ususlally Sunday) because the “excitement” of not knowing if your QB is going to do something amazing or punch himself in the nuts is way overrated.
To fulfill your requirement of Packers hate, I’d say that I was disappointed with how much hate Favre got when he joined the Vikings. I think some backlash was understandable, (imagine how you’d feel if Eli left the Giants after this season and chose to be the starting QB for the Cowboys), but the vitriol was way more than he deserved. I’m glad that that all seems to be behind us now.
Eli couldn’t make the Cowboys.
Fuck Green Bay Fudge Packers.
Nothing wrong with being a fudge packer, just ask Tom Cruise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKbLquqxBAQ
Also, I’m not saying Eli’d be a shoo-in, but don’t forget that the Cowboys are in Texas, and unlike Dak, Eli’s white so he’d have a huge advantage there in terms of popularity.
Also Dak actually kinda sucks without a world class OL and running game to cover his ass.
this comment objectively sucks because i have a different opinion
a+ handle tho
I grew up near Chicago, so I’m, predictably, a Bears fan. I moved out of the Chicago area but still in northern Illinois, and was amazed to discover it’s basically south Wisconsin with all the Packers fans here. I didn’t think much of it until I also heard all of them talking about how they think Illinois sucks and they all want to live in Wisconsin. “Y’all ain’t loyal!!!”
McCarthy is a bad coach who lucked into a QB who can perform almost literal miracles.
FUCK THE PACKERS
Reminds me of a classic song by the NWA.
I am a lifelong Vikings fan who works just over the border in Wisconsin. I don’t have enough bad things to say about the Packers and Packers fans when they are in full-on cheesehead mode. After Rodgers went down, I printed out the Draw Play State Farm comic and put it on my wall. Dave, I can never thank you enough for making that; it has brought me great joy to see those cheeseheads read it and relive the fact that Rodgers was out for the season. I hope he makes it through the game this week so Barr can get another crack at him the week after *evil grin*.
For what it’s worth, I really do hope the Vikings do well in the playoffs and make it to the Super Bowl.
Also, you may not realize this, but you probably see the worst of Packers fans because you root for the team we hate more than the Bears (we at least respect the Bears, after all, they’ve actually won a Super Bowl).
To fulfill the Packers hate requirement, let me provide you of an example of that hate. I also hope when the Vikings make it to the Super Bowl, that they implode and lose on their own home field in the most heart-breaking fashion possible. That would be a fitting reminder that no matter how good the Vikings look at any particular moment, they will never be a good team, and they will always, always disappoint you.
I hope none of your players get hurt though, because what kind of douchebag would derive enjoyment from seeing an opposing player get injured and hope it happens again? (Hint, the answer rhymes with “My King’s Plan”)
Interesting, given that in your first comment you’d be in favor of Kornheiser encouraging the breakage of Golden Tate’s legs.
But I guess hypocrisy runs rampant among single-celled organisms–which incidentally describes the brains of most Packers fans.
What do you think of how there may be two chances of the Pats not winning the title this year based on a weird trend? Basically the QB passing yard title and losing to either the Jets or Bucs.
If all goes well, one of them happens and there could be hope. Not sure why but the last time a QB would led the league in passing yards who won a championship was 1959.
Imagine working only 20 or so miles out and having to hear about it every. Single. Day.
I was legit laughing hard when they were having trouble with the browns (before the browns decided to browns the game) and would have loved to see them fall. Would be even better to see them out completely, just to see the looks on their faces.
Go Chargers!
Rodgers is definitely “brownsing” his pants today. He sucks. Packers suck.
I like the Packers
I cannot get over Wilson barely peeking over everything and getting thrown across the room when Aaron barges in.
The last time the Panthers played the Packers, it led to one of my favorite football moments ever:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIXQy8V-9po
Went to Saints @ Packers this year. The fanbase is so homogeneous that it’s actually hilarious. Literally 90% of the stadium was White, over 40, at least slightly overweight, and wearing “I STAND FOR THE FLAG” buttons as if they’re taking some massively controversial stance. There’s also an air of passive-aggressivism to their fanbase — they’re super nice and friendly…as long as you agree with everything they say. Not just football. Everything.
I mostly hate the exceptionalism that’s shown to Green Bay. No other team can exist in a town with a population of less than a million, still have stadium conditions from the previous millennium, and NOT be threatened with relocation. No other team’s players are allowed to jump into the stands (until this year). No other team can be “publicly owned” (which is a load of crap but that’s a different point). If you took any of those things away, the special Wisconsinite snowflakes would get all huffy and probably go make a poorly-worded, racially-loaded facebook status about how they refuse to watch NFL games anymore, in spite of the fact that these are all things NOT AFFORDED TO THE OTHER THIRTY ONE TEAMS IN THE LEAGUE.
Well, they’d be drunk when posting that racist rant, so give them a little understanding.
I feel like all fans have some racist pricks in them. I am a Pats fans, and I hate going to our games. I don’t have the money to go to many, but when I do, I feel like I am surrounded by snobby rich, upper middle-class fairweather fans. I remember we were losing a game against the Jets, and they wouldn’t cheer, or left the stadium; I lost my voic, and we won in overtime. Stadiums are not imdicative of fan bases.
Anyway, aren’t we supposed to be talking poo about the Packers?
My favorite Packers memory was when they lost Super Bowl 32 to give the Broncos their first championship. Warms my heart every time.
The Packers are a Falcons win on Monday from being eliminated from the playoffs completely.
If Matt Ryan really loves those guys he’ll pull through.
Does anyone remember the time when Tynes made the field goal (after missing two beforehand) to end the game against the Packers, some people where whining about how the Giants ruined what they felt should have been a great storyline?
The media kinda entertained the thought of a team trying to give their retiring HOF QB a send off against a team gunning for the perfect season. Then once the game was played, Plaxico figuratively did “The Last Boy Scout” scene against the Packers secondary, Eli keeping his cool, and Tynes somehow made the toughest kick in the end despite botching two easier ones. That is despite the refs made a questionable call on Snee that negated the TD run by Bradshaw but in the end, it only delayed the inevitable.
Also months later Favre changed his mind about his retirement and it became a recurring gag for a while.
To those wondering, the Plaxico gun joke was forced but I can’t help that one.
Making a Murderer is a creepy series, and I believe Aaron Rodgers is the real killer. He is gay, Olivia Munn was his beard. He hates his family, who are humble people who would never air their business out in a reality TV show for for attention.
All jokes aside, I like Rodgers and the Packers. I hate the media making him out to be the second coming. Or mentioning his family as if it has any real value to the game. Not everyone has a great relationship with their family. The him being gays thing is such a joke; who gives a fuck, really. He brought them a championship, if he is gay, he earned himself some Richard.
Now Farve… that bastard. When they beat the Pats in the SB, I was in elementary school. I made a bet with my music teacher, had to give him a cookie. But the bastard wore a Packers tie, a bragged. I cried and hit him, and they called my parents. Luckily, I didn’t get suspended. I was a child, but I still remember that childhood pain. That heartbreak. For that reason, fuck Farve. I took so much joy when the Pack made Rodgers their starter, I hope it stung (I don’t wish people ill though, so I wish you well in life… still enjoyed it a little if I am being honest though.). Team has been blessed by the Football Gods, so I am not as hurt about it anymore.
My team has been blessed*
Why do Packers fans mispronounce Favre? Are they all dyslexic in addition to being overweight drunks?
When I realized that this year could have no packers, and no Seahawks in the playoffs I nearly shit myself. Those are two of the three longest running active playoff (appearance) streaks with 8 and 5 consecutive appearances respectively. Good to see some fresh blood in the NFL playoff race.
Tate caught the ball.
I’ve been to Wisconsin. Their cheese soup is garbage. They may make a lot of cheese, but they honestly have no idea what to do with it.
My Brother became a Packers fan when they won the Super bowl against the Steelers. I hate having to listen to him whenever he talks about it.