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…
Former Green Bay Packers Safety LeRoy Butler has finally made his way into the NFL Hall of Fame. Butler, who’s NFL career spanned from 1990-2001, spent all 12 of his professional seasons with the Packers. In Butler’s 16th year of Hall of Fame eligibility, he received the long awaited nod to forever be remembered in…
The Green Bay Packers are the most famous team and the only publicly-owned professional sports team in the United States. The Green Bay Packers Jersey has a long history, even preceding The Acme Packing Corporation, a meatpacking company that bought team rights in the early 1920s and gave it its name. You can find plenty…