2011 Wk 10 vs. Min

Thursday 17th November 2011
at 01:52pm

Well what a week it has been. The weather is Sydney has been absolutely spectacular and my workload has been heavier than I can ever remember it being. Thank goodness for Green Bay Packer football is all I can say.

I feel like I’m saying the same thing every week but again this week I missed the game due to it starting at lunchtime on Tuesday afternoon. Of course, if you’ve been keeping up to date, then you already know my ritual of keeping up with the score whilst I work so I won’t delve into any of that again. I must say though that I did find it particularly enjoyable to just sit there tonight, with my feet up and completely forget that anything else in the world even existed. It was very nice indeed. (Randall Cobb photo credit: AP Photo/Mike Roemer.)

With the team sitting pretty at 8 and 0, I have to say that I wasn’t worried in the slightest with the fact that we were playing the only team to stay within a touchdown of us all season long. That was primarily due to the fact that it was a prime time, Monday night game at Lambeau Field. It also had to do with the fact that their rookie quarterback, of whom we knew virtually nothing, was now a rookie quarterback on whom we had game tape and an understanding of how close we let him come to us the first time around. Plus, Adrian Peterson tore us to pieces last time and I was sure that we weren’t going to let that happen again. (Clay Matthews photo credit: Todd Rosenberg/NFL.)

With Randall Cobb taking Chris Kluwe’s first punt back to the house it was officially game on. Or, as it turned out in the end, route on. (On a side note, I love it that Chris Kluwe wears number four for the Vikings. It’s like nobody of any importance to their team has ever worn that number before. I just think that’s super.)

Apart from a lapse of concentration in the second quarter the Packers really took it to the Vikings all game. Heck, if not for Randall’s muffed punt they may not have scored at all. (John Kuhn photo credit: AP Photo/Morry Gash.)

Instead of going right into the play-by-play, I’ll make my first real comments on Aaron Rodgers for the season. Wow! I mean seriously, pardon the hyperbole, but Wow! He’s playing like I don’t recall any Packer quarterback playing in the history of my fandom. I won’t go so far as to take this admiration down the ESPN path by declaring him the greatest player to ever live, but I will say he’s an absolute joy to watch. 

Averaging more than 300 yards, 3 touchdowns and a Passer rating of 130 odd per game is astonishing. So much so that if I hadn’t have witnessed it for myself I wouldn’t believe it, not even for a second. Even when Peyton Manning and Drew Brees played their skins out in 2009, and Tom Brady in 2007, none of what they did compared in completion percentage or touchdown to interception ratio. The very notion of a quarterback, particularly in Green Bay, who has thrown ten times as many touchdown as interceptions just beggars belief. I am very grateful to have him on our team and not somebody else’s. (Aaron Rodgers photo credit: AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps.)

It’s another big week this week, so the earlier the nights that I manage to get the better. I can’t wait till Sunday against the Bucs and then Thanksgiving against Detroit. What a week’s worth of football that’s going to be.

And, based on popular demand, I will certainly get a little more up-close and personal with the family in the next week or two aswell.

Until then I’ll bid you farewell.

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