Raider Pride said:I have now been in Milwaukee for three weeks and spoke to many Packer Fans in local bars on Brady Street, as well in small restaurants.
This long weekend I went up to Marquette WI. (Population 185) I fished Puckaway Lake and met many Packer Fans in this small town and not one of them *****ed about T.T.
So far I have not met one person in Milwaukee or Marquette who hated T.T. So far I have not met one person who *****ed about him.
However, So far I have met many people who want the Packers to win.
So far I have met many Packer Fans, and all of them just want to talk about how good they will be next year because they have improved. They want to talk about going from 8 and 8 to the NFC Championship with the Defence. They want to talk about next year and how they are looking forward to just watching the games. Seeing the Packers play in the bar with their buddy's or at home with the family.
The people I met are not radical Internet bloggers. The Internet may indeed attract the radical on any issue including T.T.
What I have seen so far, with my own eyes, is great fans who are positive about the team. Fans who just say, "Next Year"
There is a difference between Packer Fans on the Internet and the Packer Fans who are not on the end of a fiber-optic cable but are real people in Wisconsin.
There really is a huge difference between real life and the Internet.
I would have loved to find a Packer Fan who wanted to discuss and debate with me on how I feel that T.T. is taking the right path. So far every one has agreed with me.
Three weeks... I have not found a T.T. Hater in person.
R.P.
I'll be totally honest with you: I'm much more opinionated about the Packers since joining internet forums than I was for all those years before.
That's a good thing and a bad thing.
As a good thing, I understand that game a lot more. There are some pretty smart cookies out there who know more than me, and they will call me when one of my opinions is straying from reality. They will also just plain challenge another opinion.
You don't get that out on the lake in da U.P., ya hey.
But, yes, it is also a bad thing, because you do get overly opinionated and having a bunch of people agreeing,disagreeing,and taking sides all factors in to a sometimes unhealthy level of fandom.