No pro-football thread here???

[Ilium]

Ehhh, I've been a Packers fan since 1975. Which means I lived through close to 20 years of mostly-stinky teams, before the Favre Epoch began. The current Packers edition is far more entertaining than, say, the David Whitehurst or Randy Wright eras.

David Whitehurst...

*shudder*

 

[Jdvn1]

Two games I look forward to this season.

Pats - Colts

Texans - Bucs (my team and my buddy's team)

 

[Dr. Harry]

Two games I look forward to this season.

Pats - Colts

If you have not seen this column, you may find it interesting. It is a (semi-)humorous send-up of the Pats-Colts game as good vs. evil.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=easterbrook/071023&sportCat=nfl

(Uh-oh, I think I just made this into another alignment thread!)

Texans - Bucs (my team and my buddy's team)

As a Dolphins fan, I was glad to see Sage Rosenfelds do so well last week. Just kinda says a lot about the 'Phins front office. Sigh.

 

[Crothian]

It even has Paladins!! That article is right for the D&D crowd!!

 

[GlassJaw]

If you have not seen this column, you may find it interesting. It is a (semi-)humorous send-up of the Pats-Colts game as good vs. evil.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=easterbrook/071023&sportCat=nfl

I read that when it was posted earlier in the week. Easterbrook is a tool, and obviously has an agenda with Belichick and the Pats.

 

[TerraDave]

And speaking of the pats...the beatdown the 'skins got on Sunday was so bad, I couldn't even stand to post about till now.

What can I say: go Colts.

 

[kenobi65]

David Whitehurst...

*shudder*

You know, his son, Charlie, is a backup quarterback for the Chargers.

 

[Ilium]

You know, his son, Charlie, is a backup quarterback for the Chargers.

I did NOT know that. Cool. I shouldn't give Whitehurst a hard time. He was obviously the best the Packers had. It was just a dark time in Green Bay in general.

 

[drothgery]

I did NOT know that. Cool. I shouldn't give Whitehurst a hard time. He was obviously the best the Packers had. It was just a dark time in Green Bay in general.

See, I started following the Pack in the Don Majkowski era when I briefly lived in Wisconsin, and about when Art Modell moved my hometown Browns to Baltimore. So I missed a lot of that , but at least I was following them before Favre, so I can claim I'm not a bandwagon Packers fan.

 

[kenobi65]

I did NOT know that. Cool. I shouldn't give Whitehurst a hard time. He was obviously the best the Packers had. It was just a dark time in Green Bay in general.

Yeah, it sure was.

The team traded away a ton of its future for John Hadl in '74 (the "Lawrence Welk" trade: a 1, a 2, a 1, 2, 3), and he was washed up when he got there. Then, they traded for Lynn Dickey, who was talented, but kept getting injured. That's when David Whitehurst was put on the field. I was 12 or 13 at that time, and I remember all the girls thinking Whitehurst was hunky (I thought he looked like a goob).

They had a little bit of a spark of life in the early '80s, once Dickey got healthy, and had Lofton, Jefferson, and Coffman to throw to, but they had no defense then.

But, hey, we're 6-1 this year, better than I think anyone expected, though I keep wondering, "how the hell did we do that?"