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<blockquote data-quote="TJV" data-source="post: 502682" data-attributes="member: 4300"><p><span style="font-family: 'arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">I don’t like the “what if a certain team didn’t have X player’ discussion either. First I don’t like it because when you change one aspect of history the ripple effect on (at the time) future decisions are unknowable. So you aren’t just changing one event in history: That changed decision changes future decisions and those different decisions change others and on and on and on. </span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">And if you’re changing one historical fact, why stop there? <em>What if Calhoun and Lambeau weren’t so devoted to the franchise?</em> What if the owners of Fairbanks-Morse company were more devoted to their company team than Calhoun/Lambeau – would we be rooting for the Beloit Fairies? <em>Could</em> we? <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/biggrin.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":D" title="Big Grin :D" data-shortname=":D" /> (BTW, the Fairies handed the Packers their only loss of the 1919 season, 6-0 and the Packers only gave up 12 points in 11 games that season. Luckily the Packers <em>dominated</em> the Fairies in 1920, winning 7-0!) What if Packers fans in the early twenties left those passing hats empty? What if, what if, what if? What's the point?</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">The most important reason I don’t like it is for me reality is interesting – even fascinating – enough. The Packers have Rodgers and the Vikings have AP, why postulate otherwise? (Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think it should be <em>outlawed</em>, I just don’t like it.) </span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">So back to reality: I didn’t like Spielman’s promotion to GM any more than I liked the firing of Lovie Smith. I preferred the chaos of the Zygi interfering and no GM. And after an initial <em>unreasonable</em> targeting of the Packers, Lovie really grew on me! When Harlan hired Wolf I was all for it because it changed the MO of the organization. Even though I wasn’t sure Wolf was the right guy for the job, at least Harlan hired one guy to be in charge of all football operations and if Wolf didn’t work out I hoped Harlan would leave that organizational change in place and hire another VP/GM. Of course I have no idea if Speilman is the right guy either; I’m just hoping he’s not. And I'm hoping Wilf gets impatient.</span></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TJV, post: 502682, member: 4300"] [FONT=arial][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Tahoma]I don’t like the “what if a certain team didn’t have X player’ discussion either. First I don’t like it because when you change one aspect of history the ripple effect on (at the time) future decisions are unknowable. So you aren’t just changing one event in history: That changed decision changes future decisions and those different decisions change others and on and on and on. [/FONT][/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=arial][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Tahoma]And if you’re changing one historical fact, why stop there? [I]What if Calhoun and Lambeau weren’t so devoted to the franchise?[/I] What if the owners of Fairbanks-Morse company were more devoted to their company team than Calhoun/Lambeau – would we be rooting for the Beloit Fairies? [I]Could[/I] we? :D (BTW, the Fairies handed the Packers their only loss of the 1919 season, 6-0 and the Packers only gave up 12 points in 11 games that season. Luckily the Packers [I]dominated[/I] the Fairies in 1920, winning 7-0!) What if Packers fans in the early twenties left those passing hats empty? What if, what if, what if? What's the point?[/FONT][/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=arial][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Tahoma]The most important reason I don’t like it is for me reality is interesting – even fascinating – enough. The Packers have Rodgers and the Vikings have AP, why postulate otherwise? (Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think it should be [I]outlawed[/I], I just don’t like it.) [/FONT][/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=arial][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Tahoma]So back to reality: I didn’t like Spielman’s promotion to GM any more than I liked the firing of Lovie Smith. I preferred the chaos of the Zygi interfering and no GM. And after an initial [I]unreasonable[/I] targeting of the Packers, Lovie really grew on me! When Harlan hired Wolf I was all for it because it changed the MO of the organization. Even though I wasn’t sure Wolf was the right guy for the job, at least Harlan hired one guy to be in charge of all football operations and if Wolf didn’t work out I hoped Harlan would leave that organizational change in place and hire another VP/GM. Of course I have no idea if Speilman is the right guy either; I’m just hoping he’s not. And I'm hoping Wilf gets impatient.[/FONT][/COLOR][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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