Week 8 vs Minnesota
Monday 02nd November 2009
at 11:22pm
So I’ve just spent the last hour or so watching all the video and reading up on all the blogs about the game of the year (2nd time around) that I didn’t get to see. I was secretly hoping that with the change of time slot we’d pick it up live down here but to no avail. Whilst you were all glued to your sets up there, us Packer fans down here had to be content with Philadelphia versus New York. Not that that game didn’t have the potential to be a great one but really, the whole country had been waiting for this game since mid August so to be quite frank, no other game really mattered did it? Heck, Philly and NY could have played out a 100-99 thriller and it wouldn’t have mattered a lick.
Come to think of it, Philly and New York, that’s the World Series match-up too. I’ve seen a bit of that but not a whole lot. I still find baseball kinda boring. Plus, it’s November for goodness sake, shouldn’t that have finshed by now? I remember saying almost the same thing two years ago aswell.
Anyway, back to todays game. I’ve gotta be honest here and say that my emotions are totally mixed. Not knowing the entire story as perhaps most in Green Bay do it’s not as easy for somebody so far removed to make a call based on the decision itself. Either Brett’s or the orginasations. Plus, do any of us really know what happened anyway? Brett flip-flopped, the Packers had already moved on, surely there was more to it than that. If there isn’t then why the animosity? All I know is, I’d have loved for Brett to have stayed a Packer though his cold weather form would have worried me. And the fact that he’s doing so well in Minnesota doesn’t mean a thing ‘cause the 52 players that compliment him there are different to the 52 we have in our locker room. And despite what every QB loving commentator in the world says, the rest of the team is just as important as the playcaller. Brett isn’t 7 and 1, the Vikings are. Would we have been 7 and 1 with him? Probably not. That’s why it’s so tough from this far away.
Plus as I read on one website this evening, Aaron Rodgers had a passer rating today of 108, with 3 TD’s and almost 300 yards. And he was the Packers leading rusher, all in a losing team. In fact, at 108, that’s his lowest passer rating in 6 weeks and he has a 12:2 TD interception ratio over the same period. How can you not love the guy for that???
Having not seen much but 4 or 5 minute highlight slots I can’t comment too much on what happened. I was surprised though by the 24-3 scoreline. And equally as surprised by the 24 - 20 scoreline not long after that. I felt a little uneasy about the booing ‘cause everybody loved Brett for a while and now it seems they hate him. I’m sure the love will return come his Canton induction and with that, do we not have a flip-flop of Brett Favre proportions?
Either way, it’ll be interesting to see how the rest of the year pans out. 8 games to go, will Brett falter as many think he will? Will we pull out enough wins to take advantage of it if he does? I can’t wait for it all to unfold.
Hoping you all stay safe until next week.
Oh, by the way, if anybody reading this lives outside of Wisconsin and has an iPhone may i recommend an app called ‘Wunder Radio’ to you. For $9 you get some 10,000 worldwdie radio stations. I am now in the habit of listening to Radio 620 WTMJ out of Milwaukee or WAPL every morning on the way to work. It’s a very cool way to keep up with things without having to sit in fromt of a pc all night long.
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