Packers Announce New Housing Venture VILLAGE OF ASHWAUBENON—On the coattails of what has become an undeniably successful investment partnership with Lodge Kohler, this week the Green Bay Packers embarked upon Phase II of their residential expansion at Lambeau Field. “I’m happy and proud today to announce the opening of Trembling Gates as the first assisted living complex housed inside of an NFL stadium!” beamed Packers President, Mark Murphy. “To be honest, we simply built too many luxury boxes. It’s hard to win consistently in the NFL, and we just couldn’t find enough people that were excited enough about the team’s prospects to fill the vacant seating areas near the top of the stadium.” A detailed study of Northeast Wisconsin demographics revealed to Murphy that many senior citizen invalids are lifelong Packers fans, and are also in need of around-the-clock care that they cannot get at their own home from spouses or from their adult children. The first official Trembling Gates resident, Ted Thompson, is purportedly already settled in. When reached for comment, his full-time hospice attendant Kelly Haene told us “Ted is the ‘classic’ senior living resident and real joy to be around. He’s so funny. Yesterday he kept grumbling the word ‘Jello’ over and over again for like 4-hours straight, and then he lurched out of his chair and bit me on the forearm. …tore a chunk of flesh right off. What a kidder! I called him ‘Sassy Boy’ and he sort of smiled out of one side of his mouth.” Murphy concluded his press conference by suggesting that this was no ordinary old folks home. Each Trembling Gates resident gets complimentary viewing for any Lambeau Field event. Plus, every resident that locks into a lifetime commitment contract receives an autographed black and white framed picture of Wayne Larrivee to hang in their quarters. He went on to say “These seniors are so happy to a part of the Packers, even if it means we’ll fleece their families out of substantial inheritance. I really think many of the residents actually prefer it that way, and it’s nice we can give them that option.” Create a seam here – X’s and O’s about the game or a scheme Welcome to the Week 17 / Game 16 Edition of The Coach Clarahanson Show !!! … the special “House Cleaning Edition” We got whacked 16-0 by the Vikings, at home, yes, in Lambeau, for the 2nd shutout at home for the year. Driving away from Lambeau, the car thermometer said 3 degrees Fahrenheit, the guy on the radio said the wind chill made it feel like -15…all I know is that the chick shown below preparing to shotput the ball to the Jordy Nelson has a better chance of scoring than Bert Hundley ever will. Coach is going take a little bit different path today and put the Vikings game in a larger context. Perhaps the Arc-of-Symmetry? 2006 was McCarthy’s first year as Coach, and the last time we got spanked for naught 2x in one season: Sept. 10th, 2006 26-0 vs. Bears Nov. 19th, 2006 35-0 vs. Patriots The QB? A guy named Brett. 2017 was McCarthy’s last year as Coach, and he finished his career in Green Bay by getting spanked for naught 2x during the season. Nov. 19th, 2017 23-0 vs. Ravens Dec. 23rd, 2017 16-0 vs. Vikings The QB? A guy named Brett Ted Thompson arrived in GB in 2005 Season and selected Aaron Rodgers after McCarthy passed over him in San Francisco. (“Francisco” – that’s fun to say! …”Francisco”…”Francisco”) McCarthy arrived in GB in 2006, replacing Mike “The Human Pear” Sherman as HC. MM had #4 as QB, promoted Bob Sanders from D Line Coach to DC. Mark Murphy replaced Bob Harlan in Dec 2007, just in time to see the 2007 NFC Championship Game in Lambeau. The 2007 team was a SB caliber group that was stopped by a Brent Favor INT throw to the Giants….that was a cold night, much, much colder than last week’s Viking debacle. An OJ-White-Bronco-Drive around GB and 5 retirements later and AR is the new QB {not kidding here, local news helicopters chased Favre’s SUV around GB after his 2008 training camp meeting with McCarthy to discuss retirement yet again}. Give McCarthy a pass for 2008 as Rodger’s 1st year, fire Bob Sanders, hire Capers in 2009 and we have our current “Leadership Team.” Now let’s summarize the 2017 Season: October 15th the Season ended. Any questions? Well yeah, Coach, I have a lot of questions. Aaron Rodgers is obviously very important, but is he really the only player on the Team? Amazingly, Johnny, it seems like he is. Let’s have a look at “the chain of command” from the playing field to the Front Office and see if we can figure out “what the hell is going on out there?” AR got busted up in Minneapolis in October and the new Brett stepped in. It turns out that he is exactly like the old Brett, except for a couple of things. For example, he’s not very good at passing. The shot below of Jordy fielding a one-hopper is a good example of why Jordy could probably play short stop, but it’s not a good way to play football. Brett is exactly like the other Brett, except that he can’t pass very well and doesn’t win very many games. He is 3-6 overall as a QB…. Hmmm ….and he only managed one win in Lambeau …. and got shut out twice!! The wins came against the three worst teams in the League, and two of those took OT. Shut outs? 2 “Normal” Losses? 4 OT Wins 2 “Normal” Wins 1 What the new Brett can do is run. See Brett? See Brett run. Why he run? Cuz he no look-see receivers. He no look-see receivers? No, he no look-see, and he no pass-complete… Hundley didn’t complete one pass over 20 yards on Saturday night, and he overthrew five deep balls that weren’t anywhere close to target. And, when he wasn’t overshooting his receivers, he held onto the ball too long. Remember, McCarthy (a.k.a. Dean of the famous Packers Quarterbacking School) has 3-YEARS invested in training and developing this guy. Zero TD’s and 7 INT’s at home is not a winning formula. Don’t be seduced by the “road stats”, two of those games are the Bears and the Browns; but give Hundleybrook credit, he did have a very good game in the loss to the Steelers (lucky game?). Hundley throws a lot of picks, especially to Harrison Smith. Three of his 8 picks were thrown to Smith, one in October, two more last Saturday night. On the first pick, he never saw Harrison Smith undercutting his underthrown pass to Lance Kendricks. On the second, he badly missed with a low throw and Smith scooped it up. Aaron Rodgers has a chuckle with Joe Callahan after the second interception. AR likes to call these moments his “Matt Flynn tips” on how to play football. Did anyone play well Coach? Yeah, Bakhtiari proved why he’s the best pass-blocking offensive tackle in the game (when Defensive Linemen have no footing), Jake Ryan led the team with 10 solo tackles (7-10 yards past the line of scrimmage), Kenny Clark looked extremely good and had a sack and a couple of hurries (against a backup Center and Guard). But who cares? We got shut out. The Vikings went into Saturday’s game at Lambeau Field ranked first in the league in third-down defense. And they pitched their first shutout victory (16-0) since 1993. Before Saturday, opponents had converted only 26.3 percent of their third downs and the Packers converted 25 percent, three of 12. So, who is this Harrison Smith guy and why are the Vikings so good? It’s not complicated. Rick Spielman has been running circles around Ted Thompson on draft day. Smith is the guy we could have picked in the 2012 draft, but passed on to pick Nick Perry…good arrangement? Not for us, let’s trade them Perry for Smith. In 2013, the Green Bay Packers and Minnesota Vikings had two of the NFL’s worst defenses. Since then the Vikings have drafted well and we haven’t. Since then the Vikings have Zimmer, a very good DC as Head Coach and we have Capers…Coach will break this down for you in the pre-draft edition, but basically Ted sucks at drafting, especially on D. The proof? We covered this last week, Johnny, Zer0/Zip/Nada Pro Bowl Players. We have very few players to show for draft after draft after draft of focusing on Defense… …and we have Dom Capers, allegedly “coordinating” our rag-tag bunch, but there is no evidence that anything is coordinated on the field. Let’s take a break here. What have we learned so far, kids?
OK, so that’s the story so far, but McCarthy is a good Coach, right? He told us so… he is a QB Whisperer. Have a look at the chart below. In our 3 close wins (against crappy teams) with Hundley we won by a TD. Good. In the 6 losses, we got totally spanked by a two-touchdown margin. No Offense (average of 12 points) paired with an even worse Defense (average of 25 points). This is not a winning formula guys. But they keep saying Capers is good … isn’t he? No Johnny, he’s not. The chart below is the Packer’s Defensive ranking for points allowed (ranking shown in the bars below, ranking on left axis) and average points per game allowed (blue line, points shown on right axis). Green Bar = Top 10 D Yellow Bar = 11-20 Ranking on D Red Bar = 21 – 32 Ranking on D So, Johnny, we can give Capers credit that the Defense has been consistent: consistently bad. The exception was 2010, the Super Bowl year (and we were bad on all defensive yardage measures that year, but we had a ton of turnovers). The take-away (pun intended) that any reasonable person should have from this chart is that the Packers Defense has been woeful for the last decade – consistently at or near the bottom of the League in terms of meaningful results. But Coach, we have McCarthy, and Rodgers, right? Well we do, but so what? The Chart below shows a distinct trend on offense. We are getting worse on offense over time, yes even with McCarthy and Rodgers. The bars show offensive ranking (the shorter the bar, the better) and the blue line shows Offensive Pts/Gm. Green Bar = Top 10 D Yellow Bar = 11-20 Ranking on D Red Bar = 21 – 32 Ranking on D Both the Ranking and the Pts/gm are trending in the wrong direction (Points down and ranking sliding toward yellow). It’s interesting how much better the Offense was that last time Rodgers was out in 2013 than it has been 2017. But how about the “Legume-Eminem-Combo”? The chart below shows that the Defense remains bad (to slightly trending worse) and the Offense is declining….and, no surprise, the extremely important Point Differential is really trending in the wrong direction. Recall from earlier editions that the typical Super Bowl winning team median point differential is 10 points for the season. The aggregate of Murphy/Thompson/McCarthy/Capers have had 4 of their 9 teams realistically in the hunt, and three of those four were ’09 – ’11. In the last four years only one team, the “Seattle-meltdown-team-of-2014”, was statistically a Super Bowl Team. I’m getting confused Coach, can you recap? OK Johnny, what have we learned so far?
But McCarthy is good, en so? Wait…What about when he doesn’t have Aaron Rodgers versus when he does have Aaron? What does that show? Well, Johnny, good question. Coach has compared the records of McCarthy (without Rodgers) to Vince Lombardi (without Bart Starr) to Bill Belichick (without Brady) to Don Shula (who did not have QB Bob Griese for 9 of the 17 games in the only perfect season in NFL history). First, Shula is off the map. The 1972 Dolphins won 9 games of their 17-0 season with Earl Morrall the all-time superstar backup QB. Lombardi and Belichick win 2 out of 3… …McCarthy loses 2 out of 3 without “their QB”. The football gods love symmetry Johnny. McCarthy, Lombardi and Belichick all coached 18/19 games without their superstar QB’s…and McCarthy’s record is the inverse of the other two. McCarthy is No. 2 behind Curly Lambeau for total games coached and is 4 on the all-time list for winning percentage…BUT…if you look at the games he’s Coached with Rodgers, he is one of the worst coaches in Packer’s history. No. 13 overall. There is no evidence to support any conclusion other than McCarthy is just a “Grade D/C coach” who got lucky when Ted gave him Aaron. So where does that leave us, Coach? House cleaning time. Coach recommends a complete regime change. Sadam must go, Momar must go, they all must go…particularly Murphy because he sits at the top of this steaming pile and he’s done nothing. Of course, what Coach has described is what should happen. More likely, nothing will happen. Oh, Capers may be fired and a couple of assistants executed. But “Participation Trophy Mark” won’t have the cajones to move out Ted or Mike. Dammit. WTF – the Coach’s take on football news that’s messed up In case you didn’t hear, the morons at 1265 Lombardi Avenue that are holding our Packers organization as a perennial hostage almost forced themselves into releasing Aaron Rodgers due to violation of the League’s rules regarding Injured Reserve status. As soon as the Packers were eliminated from playoff contention last Monday, the team's front office began to shut the season down. Its first move was to preserve banged up quarterback Aaron Rodgers by placing him on injured reserve and ending his season. The decision was hardly a surprise, and it was entirely a rule violation. And now several NFL teams are calling on Roger “Comey” Goodell to force the Pack to waive the League’s best player so they can pounce. The problem, as the other teams and anyone with common sense would see it, is that Rodgers was placed on IR not because he was injured, but because the Packers were knocked out of the playoff race. That's a problem, as ESPN's Kevin Seifert explains: The NFL classifies injuries as "major" or "minor" based on whether it will take more or less than six weeks for the player to recover. In essence, a player placed on IR with a minor injury is subject to waivers after he recovers. In Rodgers' case, the question is what happened during his Dec. 17 start against the Carolina Panthers to put him in the "major" category. There's reason to believe that nothing "major" at all happened… Following the team's Sunday game against the Panthers, McCarthy said that Rodgers was "sore," but nothing more. And that's just what you'd expect for a guy who broke his collar bone two months earlier. On that Monday, the Packers were eliminated from the playoffs and Rodgers was still healthy, according to the team. Then, on Tuesday, he was placed on IR. It's pretty obvious what the Packers did and the rule was clearly broken. But does that mean the team should be forced to cut Rodgers loose? According to the rules, yes. But the Packers have one possible line of defense: The NFL has to approve IR moves before they happen, meaning the league already signed off on this. One might say the Packers were “extremely careless” even though gross negligence is the standard of their modus operandi at 1265 Lombardi Ave. Just be thankful Goodell spends his time hating on the Patriots and not the Packers, or Rodgers might have ended up playing for the 49ers in 2018. Thompson, Kim Kindred Spirits PYONGYANG,NK–“We’re a lot alike in many ways” said North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, referring to Packers GM Ted Thompson. “I mean, think about it, we both have way more power than we can be trusted with, we’re both crazy, we’re both single men, and we both have people that protect us from being removed from positions that we’ll likely remain in until we’re dead. Sure, we make everyone else miserable, but that’s too bad for you, bitches!” “I imagine he’s the kinda guy you’d like to have a beer with,” said Thompson of Kim “…you know, like Obama did a few years ago in the Rose Garden with that black professor and the white cop who he pissed off and then staged a sort of ‘I’m really a cool guy’ event to cover things up. Except I’m kinduva dick, too, so KJU and I would probably get along pretty good. Uh, I forgot … what was your question?” No official word yet if the two powerful, derelict leaders will meet in the near future to have that elusive beer, but suffice it to say, well, there really is nothing else to say. The Bears still suck – the Coach has proof Well, another season has come and gone for the Chicago Bears. This just in, they still suck. Here are some nuggets of their sad, maladroit existence (look it up):
Fangio has long been a successful nemesis to Offenses across the NFL (and particularly to the NFC North), dating back to his days as DC for the 49ers, Texans, Colts, and Panthers. He would look great in Green and Gold, BTW … just sayin. Udder Stuff – commentary from the Badger Underground Win this eye test game, Wisconsin finishes the season as a top 5 team. Let’s recap previous eye test showdowns that presented opportunities for Wisconsin to finish as a top 5 team. The 2010 Tolzein/Kendricks/JJ Watt/John Clay/Montee Ball team boasted a regular season win over top ranked Ohio State, followed by a 31-30 thriller at Iowa where Bret Bielema out-did Kirk Ferentz in late-game clock management, beat-downs of Michigan and Northwestern and a Rose Bowl match-up vs. TCU. This game is remembered for John Clay coming back 20 pounds heavier from injury and steam-rolling TCU down the stretch with an opportunity to tie with a 2-point conversion. Conventional thinking, along with everyone else in the stadium and the TCU defense was that the ball was going to John Clay. Paul Chryst/Bret Bielema channeled their inner Pet Carroll, calling for a pass, which was knocked down by a TCU LB Tank Carder. The following season, Russell Wilson led a team which was national championship caliber. Those hopes were dented by knuckle-headed clock management by Bret Bielema allowing Michigan State to win the game with a Hail Mary pass. A similar 40-yard heave by Braxton Miller with 20 seconds to go the following week at Ohio State further sealed the deal. Wisconsin redeemed the MSU loss in the Big Ten Championship game with a late 4th & 6 Russell Wilson bomb to Jeff Duckworth. A Rose Bowl win vs. Oregon would cap a season with a top 5-6 ranking. Two uncharacteristic 2nd half turnovers and Bret Bielema spending timeouts like dollar bills at Beansnappers thwarted any chance of another Russell Wilson late game comeback. Despite lacking a passing game late in the year with Kurt Phillips as QB, Wisconsin landed in the Rose Bowl vs. Stanford following a 70-31 beatdown of Nebraska in the Big Ten championship game. A win would legitimize their season. Lack of a passing game led to a 20-14 loss with Barry filling in for the departed Bret Bielema. Enter Gary Anderson and Melvin Gordon. Wisconsin held the upper hand and a lead in the Capital One bowl game vs. #9 South Carolina when Joel Stave was knocked out in the second half with a shoulder injury. Then 2014 led off with an eye test game vs. LSU in Houston. The only one in the building who could stop Melvin Gordon was Gary Anderson. Leading 24-7, Gordon mysteriously ceased getting carries following a 63-yard run early in the third quarter. Gary Anderson was evasive regarding Gordon’s lack of carries in the second half, and even more evasive two days later regarding a shoulder injury to Joel Stave, which Stave said never happened. That set the stage for Anderson’s exit and Barry’s 2nd return to the sideline in 2 years for a bowl game. Following a 59-0 beat-down by Ohio State in the Big Ten championship game, Wisconsin took consolation with an OT win vs. Auburn in their bowl game. The Paul Chryst team led off the 2015 season with an eye test vs. Alabama. They failed miserably with Cory Clement leaving early and missing several games with a sports hernia. A few weeks later, Wisconsin self-destructed at home vs. a very good Iowa team, fumbling the chance to win at their goal line. The only other loss came at the end of that season to Northwestern when Jazz Peavy caught the winning TD pass, took seven steps in the endzone before getting hit and slightly bobbling the ball as he went out of bounds. A tough bowl match-up against a very good USC team saw the return of Corey Clement and Robert Wheelright from injuries that wiped out most of their season. Though not given proper credit as an eye test game, this was a matchup of two very good teams. With Joel Stave playing perhaps his best game and Jack Cichy having a career second half, Wisconsin won 23-21. 2016 brought several eye test games, starting off with a win vs. national championship contender LSU at Lambeau, followed by a win vs. #8 MSU, losses to #4 Michigan and #2 Ohio State, a win vs. #7 Nebraska and a drink-to-forget loss to #8 Penn State in the Big Ten championship game. Wisconsin was rewarded with a Cotton Bowl matchup vs. overrated #12 Western Michigan. This game should have been a blowout and a statement, but Paul Chryst morphed into Mike McCarthy, making it a closer game than it should have been. There you have it, several instances since 2010 of falling just short of passing the eye test and being regarded as an elite program. Now here’s a couple of points to ponder before Bucky meets the ‘Canes… With three weeks to mull over the Orange Bowl matchup vs. Miami, here’s what Badger Underground thinks the outcome of this game comes down to… Odds are Miami’s offense isn’t going to do anything against Wisconsin’s defense. Uncharacteristic coverage busts and poor tackling angles like Wisconsin had on a handful of plays against Ohio State could allow Miami’s offense to put up a few big plays. That likelihood is lessened by the expected return of D’kota Dixon. With him on the field we are faster, more disruptive and most of the Ohio State big plays don’t happen. Miami is no Ohio State when it comes to offense. Their QB doesn’t throw picks, but they don’t have the weapons to control TOP and convert third downs. Miami’s defense vs. Wisconsin’s offense is the key to the game. Hornibrook had the whole regular season to clean up his pick problem, finally playing a clean game against hapless Minnesota, only to throw two game-changing picks vs. Ohio State forcing the ball to Fumigalli who was not at all open on either play. The problem that we see is Miami’s defense possibly being better than Ohio State’s. Wisconsin couldn’t run against Ohio State and this could also happen against Miami. Wisconsin missed Neuville blocking for Taylor, but more importantly, couldn’t handle Ohio State’s athleticism. Wisconsin racked up a lot of fluffy stats against defenses that needed to sell out to stop their run game. That made for easy passes to TE’s & receivers. Miami, like Ohio State, should be able to play Wisconsin straight up. If they choose to blitz or load the box, they have the athletes to lock down Wisconsin receivers. Hornibrook had success against Ohio State completing perfectly thrown passes to receivers who were blanketed by Ohio State defenders. Danny Davis made a couple of great catches in that game. Let’s assume Wisconsin isn’t going to run on Miami. Let’s also assume Wisconsin isn’t going to put up gaudy 3rd down conversion rates like they did against their mediocre regular season opponents. Since we can also assume Miami’s offense isn’t going to score on Wisconsin, this game then comes down to Hornibrook making just enough plays and not F’ing things up forcing passes, particularly to Fumigalli, who will never win a 50/50 ball battle. Deiter is going to get toasted and Hornibrook is going to be running for his life—just like we saw vs. Ohio State. He will need to hit receivers between the numbers to keep drives going. He’s got enough weapons for Miami’s defense to worry about. Paul Chryst will need to empty out the playbook like we saw in the last game (hint: more passes to backs out of the backfield … both fullbacks can catch the ball and play like an extra TE). Expect a bust-free dominating performance from Bucky’s defense. We shouldn’t need to put up a bunch of points offensively to win. Cut out the picks, fumbles and red zone procedure calls and we will make good on the spread, which is now at 4.5. Badgers 20, Miami 13, in Bucky’s first-ever Orange Bowl appearance (#CottonBowlLastYear). We’re gonna kick you’re a$$ – predictions for the upcoming game …in light of the current situation, Coach has temporarily renamed this section “Now it’s the Pre-Season” (NIT-PiS) For those in Packer Nation who were born at the conclusion of the Lombardi era, you’re staring down the barrel of 50, and you grew up only knowing the Packers and Lions as really bad, or mediocre at best, teams incapable of fielding a group of players that could compete for an NFL Championship (but the Vikings managed to somehow build a championship caliber Defense all that while … Hmmmm). So every time the Packers were scheduled against the Lions when I was a bucking young lad, it was Sunday at noon, guys had longer hair than girls, and 2 shitty teams from opposite sides of Lake Michigan played badly against each other in a meaningless game. Well folks, welcome back to the 1970’s. But now it’s 40 years later, and we find ourselves again in a similar predicament -- several years past our last championship title. Why? Well, have no fear. We will pull this one out because Hundley plays better outside the friendly confines of Lambeau Field, and because this Sunday is more or less a glorified Pre-Season Game that will allow McCarthy/Capers/Thompson to look good in their last game together… Another OT win for the Pack: Packers 30 Lions 24 JB – Packers you forgot about, but stories you’ll remember about them As we close out a disappointing 2017 season, it is right and just that we pay homage to the Ice Bowl Championship Packers team and the fans who were there or watched the game on TV, or dove back into historical recordings of it if they were too young to see it live. As you probably are aware, this Sunday marks the 50th anniversary of that famous game – revered by many as the most memorable NFL football game of all time. You know who won, and how it happened. You know about the malfunctioning heaters under the turf that froze the ground before kickoff. You probably even heard about the receptionist working at the Holiday Inn on Ashland Avenue that morning, how she called each room with Cowboys players in it and said “Good morning, this is your wake up call, the time is 7am and the temperature outside is minus 15 degrees. Welcome to Green Bay.” Awesome. Yeah, the Packers stunk it up this year, but that’s not why Coach is disappointed. Well, ok, it really pisses me off, but there’s a larger issue here… It’s totally inexcusable that Dallas did not play at Lambeau Field on the 50th anniversary of the Ice Bowl – especially since the two teams were scheduled to meet this year anyways. Yeah, I know, league rules dictated that the Packers play in Dallas this year because blah, blah, blah…. But this is the golden anniversary of one of the things that made the NFL truly popular and great, Motherfkrs, and the idiots running the show completely missed it. I submit to you that the absence of the Cowboys playing the Packers at Lambeau Field on the 50th anniversary of the Ice Bowl exemplifies why the NFL is waning in popularity these days. It’s not the kneeling of players during the National Anthem (although that doesn’t help), it’s the fact that the League is run by Hollywood / New York media moguls and by lawyers, not football guys that love the game and its rich history, regardless of the financial riches to be had. Shoot, Mark Murphy is more of a laywer than an ex-player. Recall that Kaepernick was kneeling at games well over a year ago, but it wasn’t until the media made it a headline at the start of THIS season that people associated with the game had to spend time addressing it. Now networks focus on which endzone celebration has the best choreography (Dick Enberg is rolling over in his grave), but real football fans don’t care about that short-lived attention crap. We, the fans who are invested enough into the sanctity of the game to keep it perpetually at the forefront of every Sunday afternoon in Fall, are being cast aside. Don’t piss us off. You wanna know why people aren’t watching NFL football? It’s because Green Bay, New York, and Dallas have shitty football teams (these are the teams that drive the League’s fan base) and non-football stories are taking over the game coverage. Sitting in a tree stand (or playing Call of Duty on Xbox Live, or watching YouTube videos, or whatever it is that the kids do these days) on an Autumn Sunday afternoon was much more enjoyable than watching Packers games this year. Just sayin…it was. The NFL should not be worried about trivial, myopic things like tweets going viral or becoming trendy with millennials, or which overtly politically correct cause they should ram down our throats, but that’s how the League is presenting itself. It needs to get back to the fundamentals (#blockingandtackling) of the what made watching the game so enjoyable … rivalries, blown calls, heroes and villains, emotional drama, die-hard fans in memorable scenarios, etc. The kinda stuff that makes watching football important to people...important enough to want to say "I was there." The owners better get their shit together or they will be way overextended on half-filled stadiums, despite their team’s success on the field (#LARams). So, 1967 Packers and all the fans who were there at the Ice Bowl, we salute you. League tycoons, watch replays of the Ice Bowl and read about it in books of lore to learn what makes the NFL and their true fans truly great, and then apply what you learn (before we spend our season ticket coffers at Cabelas). Don't worry, Coach will be back for the 2018 Draft...
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