Green Bay Packers

If you don’t think your team has a chance to win, then why bother being a fan?

That’s typical of a Viking fan.

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I’m not joining the peeing match, but the answer is simple…when it comes to rivalries as intense as GB/MN, you can throw everything out the window….Everyone knows that. If both teams were 1-14, they would both play like playoff potential teams simply b/c of who they were playing…

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If this were only true!
Both teams and most of the NFL are just like all the other pro teams. Over paid and just doing a job. Ya, there is pride in almost everyone to win but the idea of rivalries stop at the College level. Where the true football takes place!
The rivalry exists with the FANS to a much greater degree than with the players.
The player biggest concern is not getting hurt so they can play another day. This is not my words but those of the pros I know. One of them is former D-lineman for the Vikes Tony Williams. He is now at Cincinnati were he blew his knee out. Might be the end of the big paychecks.

PS. the Vikes have better talent on offense, but lack any HEART at all. Both Pack and Vikes Defense SUCK! Neither will go far in any playoffs, but If I have to will give the Pack the edge to go futher than the Vikes.
PSS. the Vikes not going anywhere with Tice as the head coach. This could be the plan of good ol Red to have the Vikes do so poorly that no-one cares if they move

Didn’t they make a movie with that as a plot line?

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If you don’t think your team has a chance to win, then why bother being a fan?

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Amen!
GO PACKERS
GO PACKERS
GO PACKERS

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If you don’t think your team has a chance to win, then why bother being a fan?

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I don’t think my kid is going to be President of the United States either, but does that mean I don’t live in hope for his future? A fan always HOPES his team gets the big wins and a championship. When the team is down, the fan sticks to his team in HOPE that they turn things for the better. If logic and probability dictates fanfare, then the Packers should have never survived the 70’s. For crying out loud, GB had to play their games in Milwaukee! The franchise wouldn’t even invest in Lambeau field until they realized Milwaukee wasn’t going to save the win starved, lowly performing Packers.

So, did you become a Pack fan when they started winning again? Got back to Lambeau field? Or did you see them through the tough years in HOPE that they’d get the program turned around?

I’m a Vikings fan. While logic dictates my team doesn’t have a snowball’s chance in Hades, I experience HOPE with every game! Hope that says one player at a time, refuses to be beaten today, and spreads the influence across the team. Hope that the coaching staff will call a smart game. Hope that the franchise will find a way to connect and fire up the fans instead of following dollar signs.

I grew up with the Purple People Eaters defense and Fran Tarkington at the helm. All my tv news and publicity was MN. My dad worked in MN. We shopped in MN. We did everything but actually live in MN……. and the Vikings were “home”, and my team. And they’re still my team. One day, hope will spring……. just like it did for the Sox this year in the Series, and the victory will be all the sweeter for those of us that knew all along, that ANYTHING is possible.

I root for the Vikes just like you root for your Jr. Leagues. Your high school team. Your child’s college team. Your own, old college team. It’s “home”.

I’m a fan because I take ownership in communitive hope. Is anyone so different? Not think……. HOPE.

Nice post kid…

While I root for the Pack, my true teams are Cincinnati and Cleveland….

Those are the teams i’ve grown up with and continually rooted for year in and year out, HOPING someday they climb out of cellar. I’ve lived in WI since i was 9 years old and have grown to like the packers, but my heart and true “fanship” if you will belongs with Cincy and the dog pound…

As you said, I HOPE they do well every year, but we all know that isn’t the case

Nice post Ken. I agree completely. Just because your team doesn’t expect to win doesn’t mean it can’t. Just look at all of the experts picks every week. A couple of weeks ago, the Patriots were EVERYONES pick over the Dolphins. Who won that game??? Hmm… You can certainly think your team is going to lose and still be a fan. They are not mutually exclusive. Hope springs eternal.

Eyehunter,

actually, I think it is four division titles in a row. Another astounding fact is since Favre became the Pack QB in 1992 they have the best record in the NFL, not the NFC, but the entire NFL.

Their defense is not very good, but they have a shot at winning the NFC Championship. Unfortunately, if they make it that far they may get slaughtered by any of the AFC teams, especially Indy.

Please get your facts straight. The Pack was already in the playoffs, regardless of the Viking outcome.

Just remember boys and girls, the Vikings are not dead and buried quite yet. As a matter of fact they might just have one more game against the green and yellow this post season.

GO VIKINGS!!!!!!!!

Lenny Jamison

they could very well end up playing the Pack. and the way the Pack is playing at home?

When you are old and I am buried the Pack will still be in Green Bay; as for the Vikes probably LA. Packer Fans are special, Lord knows we suffered through two decades after Lombardi.

I have stock which I can’t vote, pays no dividends and is never traded. But I also know with out any doubts that Green Bay will always have a football team, and in this day and age that is very special for this town of 90,000
folks.

In pro sports this is a very unusual and special situation.

GO PACK GO!!!