What are sports without rivalries? As a fan there has to be that one team that you look forward to your favorite team defeating every year. For Green Bay Packers fans over the years, there are several teams you have to consider being a rival. Whether it’s a decades-long rivalry within the division, or just…
A sport without a rivalry and a bit of drama is incomplete. You need a flavor of staring, confrontations, and hard tackles to keep the audience interested in the game. In the NFL, being an epitome of physicality and brute force, rivalries are part and parcel. While the Green Bay Packers are one of the…
Last week, Sterling Sharpe was chosen as a semifinalist for induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2023. The fact that the Green Bay Packers legendary receiver has already had to wait through 25 years of eligibility and has been passed on to the Seniors Committee for consideration, is a crime all in…
Since Aaron Rodgers became the Packers starting Quarterback in 2008, there has been 14 seasons of football played at 1265 Lombardi Ave, Green Bay, WI. Only two men, Rodgers and Mason Crosby, have donned the Green Bay uniform throughout. Everybody else has come and gone, excluding the guys presently on the team. In those 14…
Green Bay Packers defensive end Willie Davis, who played in the NFL from 1958-1969 and was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1981, passed away 2 years ago on April 15th, 2020, which is Jackie Robinson Day. Davis, who lived to be 85 years old, was the Packers’ First Black Captain in…
Often geography is the largest determining factor in fandom. It’s rare then, how my fandom began because of anti-fandom. My grandfather was living in Texarkana, Arkansas when the legendary Ice Bowl was played. Living in a border town between Texas and Arkansas, the Dallas Cowboys were only a few hours car ride away, but even…
This year I haven’t been asked about LeRoy Butler making the NFL’s Pro Football Hall of Fame (rightly, long overdue) or the Packers being Super Bowl contenders for the second year in a row. I wasn’t even asked about Aaron Rodgers being the reigning MVP with odds on a second one (which he did eventually…