El Guapo
Cheesehead
I'm sure that a few of you will take this in the direction of "we're heading this way again" but this is a great article that I found while doing some Packers research. It gives a month-by-month tally of ineptitude that we suffered through in 1991, the season before Holmgren was hired. At the end it mentions beating the Vikings in Minnesota, which (I'm going off memory) I believe cost Jerry Burns his job....leading to the hiring of Denny Green. I'll have to look that up too:
http://archive.jsonline.com/sports/packers/216701151.html
http://archive.jsonline.com/sports/packers/216701151.html
A generation of Packers fans has known nothing but success.
But trust me. It hasn't always been this way.
I'm not old enough to hark back to the dark decade before Lombardi. But having lived in Green Bay since 1975 and covered the team since the late 1970s, it isn't hard to recall the bleak landscape of the post-Lombardi era.
For one who chronicled that quarter century of mismanagement and despair, it's almost surreal to see the Packers' organization now so widely regarded as the model for football and financial achievement.