We have just witnessed one of the biggest blunders in the history of professional sports. By a GM, a coach and his staff, an organization, a player, his agent, a team, and a fan base.
A lot of people will not like this post, because the truth hurts, and in truth we all have to share the blame in the unfortunate and sad events that have transpired in the past few weeks. As a blogger (Jeff Robbins) for Channel 3 News here in Madison WI stated, the only winner in this situation is the Jets, and solely because they couldn’t really have gotten much worse given their last season.
Although I cringe at the idea of trying to influence anything so trivial as professional sports, the fact is that I have been avidly watching the Packers since the days before the Magic man (and I am not talking about Favre), and as such am a certified fan. Even though it seems as we as fans have no say in the state of the teams we adore, and in some respects we don’t, at the same time without the fans there would be no teams, and no games to be played. Subsequently to diminish the feelings of the fans is to diminish the legitimacy of the team, and what it stands for.
All parties involved in this debacle have left me as a Packer fan saddened, disgusted, and disappointed.
Favre is an idiot if he thinks we will receive the kind of unconditional love in NY that he had here in Packer Nation. Once he has one of his 3-4 INT games the fans in NY will be all over him. We sat through many seasons with nearly as many INTs as TDs, and not once did we lose faith in him or the team, despite what the nay-sayers on these forums in recent weeks would have people believe. He never should have listened to his agent over his heart, as all his agent seems to want is to ride his meal ticket to another commission, and he knew there would probably be no more if Favre was allowed to finish up his contract and career in GB. Aparently I was wrong when I said the only thing left for Favre to play for is another championship, as that not really realistic for him or us now (at least not any time soon).
Ted Thompson, Mike McCarthy, and the whole Packers organization, are inexcusable for pushing one of the best players in the league out the door. It is unprecedented in professional sports to let a player, who has in the past and could in the present help your team win a championship, and his legacy, the likes of which we haven’t seen since Bart Star, degenerate to this state. I can not recall an instance in professional sports where a franchise player at the top of his game, with the team poised to make a run at the championship, has been dishonored, and disavowed like this.
I am saddened that the players on the team did not speak up, and say something like we like Arron, and are excited by the potential he has in years to come, but the man who has been our leader for so many years, and gives us the best chance at winning now, wants to come back, and we want him back too!
Lastly I am ashamed by the way we the fans have reacted. So much in fighting, questioning each others loyalty, not respecting each others opinions, it’s no wonder the management hasn’t taken much stock in what we have to say. All in all everyone involved in this situation couldn’t have handled it much worse if they had tried, and it is really too bad.
Yours truly, a disheartened Packers fan.
“Becoming you”- Indigo Girls
A lot of people will not like this post, because the truth hurts, and in truth we all have to share the blame in the unfortunate and sad events that have transpired in the past few weeks. As a blogger (Jeff Robbins) for Channel 3 News here in Madison WI stated, the only winner in this situation is the Jets, and solely because they couldn’t really have gotten much worse given their last season.
Although I cringe at the idea of trying to influence anything so trivial as professional sports, the fact is that I have been avidly watching the Packers since the days before the Magic man (and I am not talking about Favre), and as such am a certified fan. Even though it seems as we as fans have no say in the state of the teams we adore, and in some respects we don’t, at the same time without the fans there would be no teams, and no games to be played. Subsequently to diminish the feelings of the fans is to diminish the legitimacy of the team, and what it stands for.
All parties involved in this debacle have left me as a Packer fan saddened, disgusted, and disappointed.
Favre is an idiot if he thinks we will receive the kind of unconditional love in NY that he had here in Packer Nation. Once he has one of his 3-4 INT games the fans in NY will be all over him. We sat through many seasons with nearly as many INTs as TDs, and not once did we lose faith in him or the team, despite what the nay-sayers on these forums in recent weeks would have people believe. He never should have listened to his agent over his heart, as all his agent seems to want is to ride his meal ticket to another commission, and he knew there would probably be no more if Favre was allowed to finish up his contract and career in GB. Aparently I was wrong when I said the only thing left for Favre to play for is another championship, as that not really realistic for him or us now (at least not any time soon).
Ted Thompson, Mike McCarthy, and the whole Packers organization, are inexcusable for pushing one of the best players in the league out the door. It is unprecedented in professional sports to let a player, who has in the past and could in the present help your team win a championship, and his legacy, the likes of which we haven’t seen since Bart Star, degenerate to this state. I can not recall an instance in professional sports where a franchise player at the top of his game, with the team poised to make a run at the championship, has been dishonored, and disavowed like this.
I am saddened that the players on the team did not speak up, and say something like we like Arron, and are excited by the potential he has in years to come, but the man who has been our leader for so many years, and gives us the best chance at winning now, wants to come back, and we want him back too!
Lastly I am ashamed by the way we the fans have reacted. So much in fighting, questioning each others loyalty, not respecting each others opinions, it’s no wonder the management hasn’t taken much stock in what we have to say. All in all everyone involved in this situation couldn’t have handled it much worse if they had tried, and it is really too bad.
Yours truly, a disheartened Packers fan.
“Becoming you”- Indigo Girls
