Posted on 08/31/2009 8:41:17 AM PDT by OneVike
Edited on 08/31/2009 8:55:53 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Football season is right around the corner, and two big stories have dominated the run-up to it: The return of Brett Favre and Michael Vick.
Vick, of course, is returning to football after serving a prison sentence for a dog-fighting conviction. Favre is an aging legend destined for the Hall of Fame, so his coming out of retirement (again) would be notable under any circumstances. But his return this year is especially noteworthy because of the team he has chosen to play for. The Minnesota Vikings, of course, are the dreaded and hated arch-enemies of his old team, the Green Bay Packers.
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Ugh...Romo is a dirty word in our house. Hubby got up during the game, said “No Mo’ Romo!” and walked out of the house, LOL!
The schism in your wife’s family is happening all over Wisconsin and Packer fans, but the Chico boy Rodgers will do good. By the end of the year he will have the packer fans eating out of his hands. That kid is going to be a head ache for the NFC North for the next ten years or more. My guess is he will retire with a couple SB trophies.
Hate to admit it, but he is real good. He is better than Favre ever was. Favre was always real easy to rattle, that is why he never did very well in the Dome. Too loud and then the defense would do the rest and before long he was throwing ints to the wrong players.
Remember, a majority of the Packers seasons ended with Favre throwing interceptions as he tried to do it all. He never has been a real good team player, he has always been about Favre. The antics he pulled this past summer and the way he skipped training camp just to join after he saw we had a good team after the first Pre-season game says it all.
I will have to cheer him as I said, but mark my words, by the 10th game of the season he will be forcing things and losing games, just as he did with the Jets last year and the Packers in their last NFC championship game.
I am afraid that the Packer fans will be having the last laugh as Rodgers wins the division and takes them farther than Favre does the Vikings.
Ask me after the season starts and I will deny I said any of this. As a matter of fact, this comment will self destruct at the beginning if the season when I become a dies hard swallow the Kool-aid Viking again and I again lose all sense of objectivity.
I am after all a Viking to my death.
Go Vikings!
I put them all in the same pot. Sports teams, with billionnaire owners, and millionnaire players, blackmail politicians into robbing the taxpayers to build their stadiums for them. A pox on all of them.
LOL - that’s funny. I grew up in North CA, so I was raised a 49er fan (43 years now). I met my wife in N. Dakota (stationed at Minot AFB). That’s the Viking connection - Minnesota is the closest pro team. I’m not sure how the rest of her family globbed onto the Packers.
Having watched Rodgers playing youth football and high school football (he played youth football with my sons), I’m not so optomistic about his long term career. We’ll have to wait and see. He also has a tendency to become rattled in the pocket, but that might go away with experience. It will also depend upon the tools he has in his running backs and receivers. A QB can’t do everything as evidenced by Farve’s post-season performances.
Interesting, what kind of attitude does he have. I have heard his younger brother is a bit of a premadaona.(sp?)
Do you think Heinlein saw the irony in him (an entertainer) saying that?
“Do you think Heinlein saw the irony in him (an entertainer) saying that?”
Who knows? But, I never got the impression that he took himself too seriously.
I don’t know about that. Heinlein made a lot of bold declarations about how things should be and how people should behave. Certainly enjoyed his celebrity status and the pulpit it gave him.
Wow. Proclaiming Aaron Rogers a sure shot HoFer with a grand total of one full season behind center? A guy with 59 passes in the NFL prior to last season. Led his team to a grand total of 6 victories last year.
But I know what you’re really up to. Trying to get the pack to be overconfident. Very clever.
Just a question OneVike - you stated throwing int’s to the wrong players. How do you throw an int to the right player? ;-)
It tends to run in the family I think. He was always respectful with adults, but peers - not so much.
Your ABCD construction reminds me of a paper I read as a philosophy student in the late 70s, Gettier's Is Justified True Belief Knowledge wherein the necessary conditions are established that allow one to say that they know something.
Thanks for the headache :-)
I love it! 8-)
When did it become a “traditional American value” to sign up with one’s arch-rival? “Betrayal” seems a better word for it.
No problem, really. :>)
I grew up in Duluth which is right on the border of Minn and Wisc. I spent many a day justifying my Vikings against half my friends who were packer fans in such ways. It was kind of like trying to find new and better disgusting ways to insult each others parents.
It really was a lesson that should have prepared me for journalism or politics, but alas I would rather have cheered for the packers than ever joining one of those professions.
All joking aside, my season of football enjoyment is only truly complete if my Vikings prevail against the packers, at least in Green Bay. OK, I like watching them lose always, even to the Cowboys which I hate with a passion that I fear may even send me to hell.
Well, er, ah, right next to the disgust I feel for the Steelers, Raiders, Dolphins, and Chiefs.
I really am not bitter, it just takes awhile for me to get over a loss. LOL
So do you think that will inevitably cause trouble with his teammates? I mean one can hope anyway.
Very true.
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