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My next time under the needle is going to involve getting dead best friend's signature inked on me somewhere. Bucky Badger is another possibility, but I kind of want to get that in association with a sportsball championship and/or paying off student loans.
You're used to supporting a perennial playoff contender which currently has a stud quarterback under center, and I imagine you would like to keep it that way. Packers have you covered to ease your transition.
You want a winning tradition. Again, Packers have you covered with the most league championships predating the Super Bowl era. And by the way, that trophy your soon-to-be former favorite team won last night? Named after our former coach Vince Lombardi.
You want a team with a sense of history, I imagine? The Green Bay Packers can claim victory in the inaugural Super Bowl, hosted the legendary Ice Bowl, and are currently tied among 194 games in the league's longest-standing rivalry.
Given your politics, I suspect you like to emphasize with an underdog and aren't fond of jerk billionaire owners and their relocation threats and other bullshit. Green Bay is alone among its counterparts in avoiding such undesirable criteria. The city of Green Bay, with a population around 100,000, is not only the smallest in the NFL - but the smallest professional sports market in North America. The team has humble working class roots, drawing its name from early sponsorship by a meat packing company. The Packers do their thing with no need for flair like a silly anthropomorphic mascot, and are one of only six NFL teams without a cheerleader squad - and as someone accustomed to outdoor winter football, I'm sure you can understand and appreciate why.
You might also appreciate that our ownership structure - alone in the league - is that of a publicly held nonprofit, and as such the Packers are the only NFL team with the transparency and accountability that comes with releasing annual financial reports. As a shareholder myself, I might only get approximately 1/5-millionth of a say in who runs my team... but that's more than fans of 100% of other teams can say for theirs.
Those elitist big city folk might look down upon this, but we wear it with pride. Literally. When those Chicago jerks derided Wisconsin fans as "cheeseheads" at sporting events, an entrepreneurial fan took it upon himself to adorn his cranium with a ridiculous piece of foam headwear that has attained iconic status.
You seem to have a dislike for the following teams: Steelers, Cowboys, Broncos, Colts, and Jets. I can't help but notice that 4 of your 5 dealbreakers are AFC teams, so perhaps it's time to give the other conference a shot? Steelers? Their fans still feel the sting from our most recent Super Bowl win and clamored for a rematch in this year's playoffs. Cowboys? We hate them too, and still grumble about those 90s playoff losses - I hope you can apppreciate that we have a particularly strong distaste for Troy Aikman. As a Packer fan, I assure you that mentioning Dez Bryant is good for at least five minutes of Catch Truther schadenfreude lulz. Also, Ice Bowl. Also, this year's divisional round. Broncos? Beat them in our penultimate Super Bowl win, too. Colts? Sorry, but we give them a pass... they kept Da Bears from winning the big game a decade ago. Jets? Two words: Favre. Trade.
Since the subject of division rivals has arisen, allow me to briefly encapsulate the Packers' advantages in our (and soon, hopefully your?) NFC North rivalry trash talk with fans of those teams:
You will have the ability to cite the only 0-16 record in league history over Lions fans, should you encounter any... I suspect their existence is merely an illusion created by sports media conspiracy myself. Also, the team has never even appeared in a Super Bowl. Vikings fans can claim a slightly better 0-4 record in the big game. You will be able to proclaim that this rival rosters the absolute worst people in the league, by citing the objective metric of recent player arrests... it's a wretched hive of scum and villainy, in contrast to Minnesota's "nice" reputation. From the Love Boat scandal to child abuse and beyond, you will have ample ammunition in addition to their on-field track record. Last, but certainly not least, among your new division rivals would be Da Bears. They cling tenaciously to the memory of 1985, because what else do they have? Jay Cutler. Should your loyalties shift to the Green Bay Packers, I feel you will quite enjoy having pick-throwing, anti-vaxxing, poodle-walking, reality-"star"-marrying Jay Cutler as a new punching bag and/or source of endless derisive amusement. You will also receive greater enjoyment from Bill Swerski's Superfans sketches while watching throwback episodes of SNL.
As a former Patriots fan accustomed to expressing sentiments along the lines of "y'all just jealous" and "they hate us 'cause they ain't us" at the numerous detractors of your soon-to-be former team, Bears fans will fill this role nicely for you. You can enjoy the parade of misery, pain, delusion and disappointment that airs on AM 670 The Score on an autumn Sunday. The envious glares and remarks that come with strolling through O'Hare airport clad in green and gold. Whispers at national political events from Illinois elected officials proclaiming that they are closeted Packer fans, but hide it so as not to hurt their electoral chances. Eddie fucking Vedder will use his time on stage to beg and plead with Aaron Rodgers in attendance to consider being traded to his team... but despite that loyalty, he'll still wear that gifted green and gold jersey emblazoned with the number 10, and as he does so they'll play not only Aaron's personal request (Rear View Mirror) but also a random request scrawled inside a cheesehead thrown on stage (Rats) for he knows that his is a lost cause. And it will be glorious.
You want to root for a team who can be successful without the accompanying overinflated owner and ego who's going to be playing well into January every year behind MVP-caliber quarterback play, and Green Bay has it. I think your next favorite team is an obvious decision.
LD I am not above bribery here, and am willing to selflessly and generously sacrifice my uncle's contribution from when I totally won my family Yankee swap at Christmas to welcome you into the fold. (Grandma not included.)
I don't care much about football, but I think the sudden death format of overtime is kinda bullshit.
not that your point doesn't stand but it's not pure sudden death. If ATL could have held to a FG they would have gotten the ball. And my super bowl squares pools were fine with either outcome.
College's format is hokey. I'd be ok with both offenses getting a guaranteed possession from an entertainment standpoint, but as far as fairness goes, I'm perfectly fine with the current NFL format. Defense is part of the game too.
College's format is hokey. I'd be ok with both offenses getting a guaranteed possession from an entertainment standpoint, but as far as fairness goes, I'm perfectly fine with the current NFL format. Defense is part of the game too.
Both teams should be able to get the ball in overtime. However, starting from the opponents 25 yard line isn't necessary. I'd say your own 20 yard line.
I mostly disagree with everyone else. I liked the old NFL rule before the anti Saints tweak best. You get 15 minutes (obviously regular season) to score and first to do so should win. Ties are fine in the end because sometimes a game is a tie. In college if you have 5 or 6 OTs, is that not a tie? It should be IMHO. The Seattle v Cardinals game this fall was a tie and should have been.
I mostly disagree with everyone else. I liked the old NFL rule before the anti Saints tweak best. You get 15 minutes (obviously regular season) to score and first to do so should win. Ties are fine in the end because sometimes a game is a tie. In college if you have 5 or 6 OTs, is that not a tie? It should be IMHO. The Seattle v Cardinals game this fall was a tie and should have been.
Saints fans view the change to OT rules as anti-Saints? How?
No, in college they play an infinite amount of OTs until the tie is broken.
The Seattle/Arizona should not have been a tie, it should have been a loss for both teams! Wasn't that the 6-6 game? Gross.
I know they keep playing but it's skewed at the end of a 20-20 regulation tie ends up being 55-54 or whatever. I guess they could work around it.
Vilma was pretty harshly critical since they instituted the rule in the offseason following the Saints win over the Vikings in the NFL Championship. I trust Vilma and he might have just been dropping a dis on Goodell who he didn't like, but it was clear they instituted that rule because of that game.
I know they keep playing but it's skewed at the end of a 20-20 regulation tie ends up being 55-54 or whatever. I guess they could work around it.
Vilma was pretty harshly critical since they instituted the rule in the offseason following the Saints win over the Vikings in the NFL Championship. I trust Vilma and he might have just been dropping a dis on Goodell who he didn't like, but it was clear they instituted that rule because of that game.
I mean, it happened after that game, so...that's a fact. But people had been clamoring for changes to the rule for years.
I'm of the opinion that each team should get a possession in an OT period played like a normal game. If the first team scores a TD, the second team has to match or game over.
I can understand the point, and the longest drive in NFL history is only around 13 minutes, so it's extremely unlikely that a second team wouldn't get the ball in that scenario. But say a drive lasts 12 minutes, and the other team has only 3 minutes to duplicate. Is that fair? I also realize there was a skew between winning the coin toss and winning an OT game. I could be wrong, but I think I remembered it being around 53/54% back under the old format.
The only alternative that I could potentially like would be to play a final OT quarter and let the chips fall where they may. I still prefer whomever scores first wins, but I still take offense at that era seeing what they did to us for Bounty Gate and the corporate penalties that destroyed our situation (loss of coaches, GM, picks, etc.).
Here are a mix of a couple of different angle links that specifically note the Saints/Vikings game as the reason they changed the rule.
In addition to Bennett and McCourty, Chris Long*, and LeGarrette Blount are also skipping on the White House visit. Dont'a Hightower too, though his rationale is having already done it before with Alabama.
In addition to Bennett and McCourty, Chris Long*, and LeGarrette Blount are also skipping on the White House visit. Dont'a Hightower too, though his rationale is having already done it before with Alabama.
* He's white
The atmosphere in the White House was a little different when Hightower visited.
I'd* go, leave the room with a terrible scowl on my face when The Man walked in, and refuse a handshake, if offered. I haven't been there before and think it would be a really cool experience. I'd also apologize to my team for drawing attention to myself, though I wouldn't feel bad. Really giving Drumpf a piece of one's mind on a visit like that is probably not a realistic option, unfortunately.
In addition to Bennett and McCourty, Chris Long*, and LeGarrette Blount are also skipping on the White House** visit. Dont'a Hightower too, though his rationale is having already done it before with Alabama.
Not NFL but very interesting. The team is letting fans vote on plays during the games. I assume most fans will still say the coach is garbage and calls shitty plays.
Edit: for snowman, Lawn Gnome and sang_xcx, the joke during the morning show I heard about it on was that it would have been easy for Tennessee to implement this year since the offense only ran seven different plays.
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