Comments on: Re: Super Bowl plans

By: awhayes

awhayes — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 14:58:58 +0000

Wow Doug – that sounds awesome. Have fun with the boys!

By: awhayes

awhayes — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 14:58:39 +0000

nothing worse than having to mute your excitement Joe. sounds smart to go solo with you wife for the big game.

By: Joe P.E.

Joe P.E. — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 01:38:53 +0000

I completely agree with the “want to enjoy the game with friends yet want to enjoy the game myself” notion…ie. yell, scream, cheer, jump, et al uncharacteristic forms of frenzy that would scare my friends and certainly frighten their children.

We had people over for the NFC championship game and I just couldn’t get “into it.” Too busy muting my excitement and toning down the crazy (didn’t help some of them were Bears fans). My wife & I are going to watch the Big Game solo so we can kick back and cut loose and let our green & gold flow.

Not having lived in WI for a number of years, I find my love for the Packers waxing yearly, perhaps in association with my increasing appreciation for Wisconsin compared to all the other places I’ve lived…

By: Doug in Sandpoint

Doug in Sandpoint — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 21:33:09 +0000

I had made excellent plans to watch with my family and a bunch of friends of mine but then the unthinkable happened. I snagged 2 tickets to the big game. After some frantic work involving frequent flier mileage, my boy and are are going.

Thank God that plans can change. See you all in Dallas…

GO PACK!!!!!!!!!

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 18:24:37 +0000

Great article on the TT/Favre thing looking back. Man, did he have some balls…..

and look at how that draft turned out!

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writers/peter_king/02/02/thompson/index.html?eref=sihp

By: Tom Freeman

Tom Freeman — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 18:22:17 +0000

My wife and I grew up in Wisconsin. She was a bigger fan than I was. In those days, all home games were blacked out in the local market (they later modified the rule to show sell-outs). Because I grew up in the Green Bay broadcast area, I automatically missed half the games. My wife had tickets in her family, so even though she didn’t get to go to many games herself, the whole Sunday Packer thing was an integral part of her youth. Her parents turned the tickets over to us when they moved to California. When we moved to California 3 years later, we were smart enough to keep them.

I am proud of the fact that even though my kids (23 and 20) grew up entirely in California, they have always been Packer fans. Our daughter moved to Chicago last year, and she was able to go to three games at Lambeau Field this year, two with one or both parents, and the last game of the year with her brother who came to visit her during Christmas break so they could go to the game. It was a generational changing of the guard – our kids went to the game without us!

By: CindyV

CindyV — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 18:00:48 +0000

Both my parents were Packer fans. My mom probably more so than my dad. When I was a kid, my room was painted green and yellow. I had posters of the Packers on my closet door. Footballs were on the bed instead of stuffed animals. I have a decent Packer Shrine and I’ll be going to Dallas for the game on Sunday. I have tickets to the $200 standing room only section. I hope to soak up the atmosphere and enjoy a Packer victory. Go Pack Go!

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 17:58:57 +0000

Some of my fondest (and earliest) memories are going to games with my family. I was lucky enough to grow up in GB, so I had a wonderful chance to see a lot of games, but never once have I taken it for granted. It still takes my breath away to walk from the concourse to the stands and see the screaming masses fill up Lambeau. A great place, a great city!

And someone mentioned it earlier….but I have not, in all my games there, seen any Packer fans with harsh words for fans of an opposing team. Its always “good luck, but I hope you lose!” with lots of “welcome to GB/Lambeau – its great to have you here, please come back.” That’s how we were brought up and that spirit will always be pervasive there!

By: 56coop

56coop — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 17:21:29 +0000

Funny you mentioned your wife & Chili. I’m from NC & my wife is fromm Santa Barbara. When she first moved out here she made a white chili for me that was absolutely out of this world but I literally could not speak above a whisper for 2 days. It was serioulsy hot ( as is she).

Our best two Thanksgivings ever were in 96 & 97 when we were sitting in the Holiday Inn in Green Bay eating Pizza and then on SUnday got to see the Pack beat the Vikes one year and the Bears the other. By pure dumb luck those were also GB’s last 2 SB years. GB is a great, great city. Never met so many friendly people. Felt welcome everywhere I went.

By: 56coop

56coop — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 17:16:40 +0000

I don;t remember if it was on this blog or PFT but someone mentioned that SB 50 (sorry don;t know my ROman Numerals) might be a good time to put Favre in the ring of honor. Probably the same year he goes in the HOF.

If Aaron keeps doing what he’s doing I think he’ll end up with more rings. As much as I was calling for TT & MM’s head last year I now see the reason why they are HC & GM & I am not. Crow never tasted so good.