After a year without preseason games, the NFL starts the 2021 season with a new three-game version. For a team like the Green Bay Packers, with their strong sense of continuity from year to year, preseason wasn’t all that exciting. Aaron Rodgers would play few, if any, minutes. Yet the 2021 preseason is one of…
September 10, 2020
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TundraVision
Cheesehead Radio: Great Expectations with Wes Hodkiewicz
The final cuts have been made and the Green Bay Packers are ready to make the trip across the Mississippi River to face their longtime rivals in the 2020 season opener. The CHR Gang is here to take you through this week and every week of the season, so hit subscribe for some great Packers…
September 3, 2020
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TundraVision
Cheesehead Radio: Clear Eyes, Full Heart, Empty Stadium
The Cheesehead Radio team, celebrating their TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY this season, return for the 2020 season amidst a pandemic. No preseason games, no practices open to the public, and a season opener against the Vikings next week in an empty stadium with piped in crowd noise. Oh, wait…that’s every Vikings game. The CHR team kick…
July 23, 2020
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Matt Hendershott
Could lack of preseason give Packers an edge?
It’s official–the 2020 NFL season will feature no preseason games. This news is unsurprising. The NFL was already willing to drop from four games to two, but the NFLPA had been pushing for all of the exhibition games to be dropped. Despite a lukewarm (at best) fan reception of preseason games, they hold an important…
July 22, 2020
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Brandon Carwile
NFL Not Expecting a Preseason
Ask and you shall receive. According to multiple reports, the NFL has offered the players association a deal that would do away with all preseason games in 2020. This announcement came just days after players around the league voiced their opposition to a lack of safety protocols enforced with the training camp just around the…
The Green Bay Packers will have a much quieter lead towards the 2020 regular season, as the team declared there will be no fans in attendance for training camp practices, Family Night, and home preseason games. Packers President/CEO Mark Murphy made the announcement on Wednesday, declaring, “The tremendous support of cheering fans at Lambeau Field…
June 11, 2020
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Matt Hendershott
Who loses the most in a shortened preseason?
Amid months of uncertainty, it seems we’ll be having an NFL season after all. Most teams, including the Green Bay Packers, are required to start their training camps on July 28th, according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter. However, how preseason will happen is less clean, as NFL.com’s Tom Pelissero reports a two-game preseason for 2020 is…