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Message: <blockquote data-quote="weeds" data-source="post: 467661" data-attributes="member: 39">During the 70's, 80's and early 90's, I was a fixture at Lambeau. Tickets were fairly easy to come by...matter of fact, season ticket holders would both literally and figuratively speaking, "give 'em away". Scalping as we know it now was unheard of and actually frowned upon by Packers fans. So I saw Majik and the boys play at nearly every home Lambeau home game. All of the superfluous comments regarding Majik's 1989 are accurate ... meaning that Majik's play did indeed inject some infectious hope in the fan base. I just seem to remember Majik being a turnover machine and I always gravitated toward the defensive side of the game. Personally, I was still shell shocked that the Pack beat whomever they beat at the end of the 1988 season to win (?) the right to draft Tony Mandarich instead of Troy Aikman - but that's another matter altogether. It was a cool season in that in 1989 -- the Green Bay Packers beat the Dallas Cowboys TWICE in one regular season...no sh*t...and further, beat the Bears twice...and the defending champion 49'ers - yeah, there was a TON of excitement up here. I could be wrong, but I think the Pack missed the playoffs on tie-breakers that year. To the best of my recollection, 1989 was just a re-run of what I had become accustomed to in the 80's. All offense and no defense...and it was a different game than what we now watch. Do I think that Majik could have led Green Bay to a Super Bowl? No ... and this is my opinion only ... certainly Majik had a charmed season in 1989 but that defense would have submarine'd any move into the playoffs. Similarly, Lindy Infante was considered one of the offensive 'geniuses' of the game at that time; at Cincinnati and Cleveland his offenses (Ken Anderson and Kosar, respectively) put up some pretty impressive numbers ... aside from the fact that Lindy owned a collection of pretty impressive cowboy boots, I just don't recall being that impressed with that team or Lindy's ability to put a hard nosed defense on the field. I remember watching Holmgren's first news conference after being hired and thinking that we might be on to something with him - he had this smirky arrogance about him that I came to realize comes with high levels of success...I don't recall ever thinking that about Lindy - I just remember his cowboy boots. Again, just my recollection 23 years after-the-fact.</blockquote>

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