Things will be interesting this year among my wife’s family. She’s a diehard Viking’s fan (along with our youngest daughter), while many of her family are cheeseheads in the worse way. The bickering began on Facebook shortly after the announcement that Favre had become a Viking. It might just create a “schism” in her family (had to use the same word the media used with regard to the few Viking’s players who are unhappy about Favre - LOL).
If the Vikes win with Favre all that bickering goes away, just like John Madden said, “Winning is a great deodorant.”
same situation here with my wife and her family. all cheese all the time. while my son, daughter anad new son-in-law all bleed purple. I had to marry her because I felt I had a civic duty to start breeding it out of them. so far so good.
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!