Surviving Sundays With No Packers Football
Sundays with Packers football are over for a long time. In fact, there is no football at all this Sunday (the pro bowl doesn’t count), so it’s time to resurrect Surviving Sunday. As long as I have time and as long as I remember, I’ll try and do a Surviving Sunday every week to muse about some sort of topic and recap the week in Packers news ad other nonsense.
This week, I want to talk about the atmosphere at Lambeau Field.
At the end of this column about the Packers being too soft to join the NFL’s elite, Bob McGinn takes a dig at Packers fans:
And the crowds at Lambeau Field have started to remind me of those staid assemblages at the University of Michigan. It’s the place to be seen and all that, but it has been a long time since a visiting coach or player went on and on about how difficult it was to hear and play in Green Bay.
Nowhere is it written that the Packers shall contend for if not win the Super Bowl every year, but some fans sure...
Found January 27, 2013 on
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PLAYERS:
Darrelle Revis,
A.J. Hawk,
Greg Jennings,
Erik Walden,
Jeff Saturday,
James Starks,
Mason Crosby,
Cullen Jenkins,
Aaron Rodgers,
Al Harris
TEAMS: New York Jets, Green Bay Packers, Philadelphia Eagles, Kansas City Chiefs
TEAMS: New York Jets, Green Bay Packers, Philadelphia Eagles, Kansas City Chiefs
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