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Packers 2013 Training Camp Schedule
Start making your travel plans Packers fans.
The team has released its training camp schedule for the 2013 season:
July 26 — Shells (8:20 a.m.)
July 27 — Shells (8:20 a.m.)
July 28 — Full pads (8:20 a.m.)
July 29 — No Practice
July 30 — Full pads (8:20 a.m.)
July 31 — Full pads (8:20 a.m.)
Aug. 1 — Full pads (8:20 a.m.)
Aug. 2 — Full pads (7 p.m.)
Aug. 3 — Full pads, intrasquad scrimmage (6:30 p.m.)
Aug. 4 — No practice
Aug. 5 — No public practice
Aug. 6 — Full pads (8:20 a.m.)
Aug. 7 — Full pads (8:20 a.m.)
Aug. 8 — Full pads (8:20 a.m.)
Aug. 9 — vs. Arizona Cardinals, 7 p.m.
Aug. 10 — No practice
Aug. 11 — No practice
Aug. 12 — No public practice
Aug. 13 — Full pads (11:15 a.m.)
Aug. 14 — Full pads (11:15 a.m.)
Aug. 15 — Helmets (11 a.m.)
Aug. 16 — No practice
Aug. 17 — at St. Louis Rams, 7 p.m.
Aug. 18 — No practice
Aug. 19 — Shells (11:30 a.m.)
Aug. 20 — Full pads (11:15 a.m.)
Aug. 21 — Full pads (11 a.m.)
Aug. 22 — No practice
Aug. 23 — vs. Seattle Seahawks (7 p.m.)
Aug. 24 — No practice
Aug. 25 — Shells (11:30 a.m.)
Midweek Movie: Aaron Rodgers 2012 Highlights
During the months of June and July, finding relevant Packers news is often hard to come by.
Occasionally, there is some big news to come out of 1265 Lombardi Ave at this time of the year. Case in point is the release of Linebacker Desmond Bishop earlier this week. But this type of news is often the exception rather than the rule during the dead of Summer leading up to training camp.
Well Packers Talk Radio Network is here to help you get your Packers fix, especially when there is very little actual football news to discuss.
As you are (hopefully) aware, every Sunday during the off season has taken a trip back in the past with the Packers Flashback Sunday series. This series focuses on a particular season or game from the past, to help satisfy that Packers addiction.
Many times the flashback has been a good memory.
Sometimes, like this past Sunday’s edition, it is a trip all of us would like to forget.
To further help the cause of satisfying that Packer itch, beginning this week, we are pleased to introduce a new feature: Midweek Movie.
Midweek Movie will be a short video highlighting great plays from a current Packer player. Most often it will focus on last season, and some of the great memories created by some remarkable plays by some remarkable players.
It would be only fitting that this series begin with the face of the franchise: Super Bowl champion, former NFL MVP, and moustache connoisseur-Quarterback Aaron Rodgers.
Green Bay Packers Flashback Sunday: The Epitome of 80′s Inepitude
The Green Bay Packers vs. the Chicago Bears.
Gives you goosebumps just hearing that doesn’t it?
The longest running rivalry in the NFL, going on an unbelievable 92 years this season, the Packers and Bears games have become the stuff of legends. Every contest a bitter struggle to claim superiority until the next meeting.
During much of the 1980′s however, these games were no contest.
For the early part of the decade, the Packers were average at best. Short on talent compared to the rest of the league, not even former Super Bowl hero Bart Starr could rescue the Packers from the being one of the worst teams in the NFL. During his tenure, a total of two winning seasons and one playoff appearance were the best the team could muster. 8-8 would become known as a successful season.
After nine seasons on the job, the torch was passed from one Super Bowl hero to another. Forrest Gregg, a seven time all pro tackle who Vince Lombardi called “the best player I ever coached” was hired in 1984 to try and rescue the Packers.
Unfortunately for Gregg, he would suffer the same fate as Starr.
His teams could not match up talent wise against the rest of the league. His first season as coach of the Packers in 1984 would be a repeat of Starr’s final season. 8-8. Average. Very average.
While the Packers were trying to become better than average, approximately 200 miles to the south, something was brewing in the city of big shoulders.
Brett Favre: “No Sense in Rushing Anything”
If there is one thing that we may have learned over the past few months, it is that Brett Favre is not afraid to speak about the past, present, and future.
Five years removed from Green Bay, including two with hated rival Minnesota, Favre had never really spoken about the way things ended in Green Bay.
Until the past month.
Last week, Favre took public responsibility for the first time regarding the messy divorce between himself and the Packers in the Summer of 2008 with the following statement during a radio interview:
It’s over and done with. I was at fault…I feel that both sides had a part in it. If you could go back, would I or them have done things differently? I’m sure both sides would. But you can’t.
This admission was shocking, as many never expected Favre to take any sort of responsibility for the way things ended.
Today, he spoke again. Only this time, he spoke much more in depth.
During an interview on Sirius XM Radio today, Favre went into detail about why things ended the way they did.
I understood that they had a young quarterback who had tremendous potential, that they had to find out what he could do. And, quite frankly, I had probably my best year in 16 years that past season and there’s two ways to look at that; if you’re in the organization and you’re making decisions you got to feel like, OK, he had a great year but can he really duplicate that again at this age? Probably not. He’s probably maxed out. That’s kind of what I would have been thinking. Now, obviously my side of it is I think I still can play.
Mark Murphy re: Brett Favre-“We’ve Been in Touch”
The reconciliation between the Packers and Brett Favre continues to gain momentum.
During a golf outing at Horseshoe Bay this past Tuesday, Packers President Mark Murphy confirmed that he and Brett Favre have been in contact for some time.
“We’ve been in touch with each other kind of back and forth for a while…I think time has healed the wounds or will heal the wounds. We want to have him back in the fold, and I think that would mean a lot to our fans, to our organization and to him.”
Murphy went on to reiterate the importance of having Favre back in the Packers family and having his number 4 retired before his almost certain first ballot enshrinement into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2016.
“It’s not really a question of whether it will happen, it’s just a matter of when…He deserves it. I’ve said for a couple of years now that we want to retire his number for what he did as a Packer and what he meant to the organization.”
These latest comments are a continuation of the repairing of the formerly fractured relationship between the Packers and their former 3 time MVP.
Mark Murphy has spoken several times this off season regarding the relationship between the team and Favre.
Aaron Rodgers has said it is time to let the healing begin.
Favre expressed contrition for the way his departure from Green Bay happened.
Vince Lombardi: Run to Daylight
“Run for Daylight” was the name of a best selling book written in 1963 by Vince Lombardi.
The following year, a made for television documentary of the same name was produced based on the book.
What resulted was some of the best footage of the mid 1960′s Green Bay Packers.
Please enjoy this amazing film of yesteryear, featuring the greatest coach of all time coaching the greatest dynasty of all time:
John Rehor is a writer at PackersTalk.com and co-host of Cheesehead Radio. To contact John follow him on Twitter @jrehor or email johnrehor@yahoo.com
The Lasting Legacy of Vince Lombardi
There is not much that can be written about Vince Lombardi that has not already been said previously.
A former high school coach (and teacher) Lombardi’s ascent to the pinnacle of coaching did not come easy. He paid his dues in the college ranks, serving as an assistant coach at both Fordham and Army before reaching the NFL.
He continued to pay his dues as an assistant coach for the New York Giants for another five years, helping the Giants win the NFL Championship in the process in 1956. A success yes, but not as a head coach.
This hard work and struggle would finally pay off, when on February 2, 1959, Lombardi was hired as Head Coach and General Manager of the Green Bay Packers.
And the rest is history.
Taking over a team which had won 1 game in 1958, Lombardi instilled a sense of winning that was felt immediately by the players, and the players responded. Turning in a 7-5 campaign in his first season as coach, the Packers first winning season in eleven years was just the beginning.
The Packers would win five titles in the next nine seasons under Lombardi. They were the greatest dynasty the NFL had ever seen, or has ever seen. Built on executing the simplist of plays with the maximum effort and precision, Lombardi was the architect of this greatness, never settling for anything but the very best on every play from every player.
