This question on the packers website made me think back to stuff like this, what do you guys think? Miss it?
The stories are legendary of visiting teams in Green Bay, especially during the old days, getting heat turned off in the locker room, or the short end of the stick in other ways. Does that stuff happen today, in Green Bay or anywhere else for that matter, or are there league rules against it?
Gamesmanship was still happening when I started covering the league. Paul Brown was a master of gamesmanship. The Steelers’ hotel room keys never seemed to be ready for distribution when the Steelers arrived in Cincinnati, and they were never on time for their pregame introductions, according to the Bengals, so they just ran out together. The big one was the scoreboard at Riverfront Stadium. It always seemed to malfunction in the fourth quarter when the Steelers had the ball. Chuck Noll played for Brown; he knew the tricks. They began at the airport. Sometimes the buses would pull up to the plane, other times we’d have to walk through the terminal. The Steelers PA guy once announced Jerry Glanville as “Gary Grandview and the rest of the Houston Oilers.” The Raiders were infamous for being late in delivering their film, or it would be of terrible quality and with plays missing. In the 1973 “Dirty Tricks” game in Oakland, Steelers center Ray Mansfield kept getting tainted footballs. One didn’t have air in it, one had grease on it, and then came a ball with bad words written on it. Those days are over. Now we have rules for that kind of stuff and penalties for breaking those rules. I almost like it better the way it was. I like a little gamesmanship and that’s why I still enjoy that sign that greets players leaving the visitors’ locker room at new Mile High Stadium by reminding them of the altitude at which they’ll be playing. Take a deep breath.
The stories are legendary of visiting teams in Green Bay, especially during the old days, getting heat turned off in the locker room, or the short end of the stick in other ways. Does that stuff happen today, in Green Bay or anywhere else for that matter, or are there league rules against it?
Gamesmanship was still happening when I started covering the league. Paul Brown was a master of gamesmanship. The Steelers’ hotel room keys never seemed to be ready for distribution when the Steelers arrived in Cincinnati, and they were never on time for their pregame introductions, according to the Bengals, so they just ran out together. The big one was the scoreboard at Riverfront Stadium. It always seemed to malfunction in the fourth quarter when the Steelers had the ball. Chuck Noll played for Brown; he knew the tricks. They began at the airport. Sometimes the buses would pull up to the plane, other times we’d have to walk through the terminal. The Steelers PA guy once announced Jerry Glanville as “Gary Grandview and the rest of the Houston Oilers.” The Raiders were infamous for being late in delivering their film, or it would be of terrible quality and with plays missing. In the 1973 “Dirty Tricks” game in Oakland, Steelers center Ray Mansfield kept getting tainted footballs. One didn’t have air in it, one had grease on it, and then came a ball with bad words written on it. Those days are over. Now we have rules for that kind of stuff and penalties for breaking those rules. I almost like it better the way it was. I like a little gamesmanship and that’s why I still enjoy that sign that greets players leaving the visitors’ locker room at new Mile High Stadium by reminding them of the altitude at which they’ll be playing. Take a deep breath.
), but I'd rather see the game played on the field.
