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Message: <blockquote data-quote="weeds" data-source="post: 412341" data-attributes="member: 39">I hate the Chicago Bears - a term that I don't just kick around for the sheer sport of it. The kids here have a dislike for the Vikings...that's ok...I was young once too and my youthful exuberance clouded the things that are truly important in life. Hating the Bears - bordering on despising the Bears - is truly important in life if you're a Packers fan. I had an old farmer (about 80 years old, used to drive his tractor into town right off the field) tell me something, (when I was a cocky college kid), it went something like this: "Weeds", he said, "When I was your age, I knew what you know now...and I've been learning ever since." I only pass that along because you need to know how wrong you kids are...you should be hating the Bears and the Vikies are an unpleasant temporary afterthought ... like having a sore keester after a night of diarrhea ... Ok, so that foundation laid...I gained a TON of respect for the Bears organization last year when Lovie Smith brought them into Lambeau with the express intention of keeping the Packers out. Yes, I'm talking RESPECT and a limited amount of admiration as well. To this guy's way of thinking, that represented a respect for the integrity of the game. An integrity that I think is waning BIG TIME. That could very well be why the Super Bowl seemed almost anti-climatic to me ... why it hasn't sunk in entirely ... the Packers took possession of the Halas Trophy in the bowels of Soldier Field. Memories are made of THIS. All of the logical arguments for resting players aside ... you have to play to win each game...period. I would never criticize McCarthy for playing to win every time the Packers trot out of that south end zone tunnel. If a key player is lost ... even if it's Rodgers ... so be it. You then WIN with the next guy. Look, I don't treasure going 'undefeated' into the playoffs -- being undefeated and reigning Super Bowl Champions is a HUGE bullseye to have painted on your back -- but as a wise man once said, and I'm paraphrasing, "Winning isn't everything. The will to win is." Pursuing 'perfection' is a huge moving target. That same wise man also referenced achieving 'excellence' somewhere along the way in that pursuit. There... rant over ... play to win. (As my son would say ... "Get off the stage, ya bum.")</blockquote>

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