Chicocheese
Cheesehead
Let's go back to the 2007 NFC Championship. Would you rather have had us win that game, go on to the Super Bowl i like to poop my pants all day long!
I will never live this down...
Can we call you dirty pants?
I kid I kid!!
Losing the NFC Championship to the Giants, there still ain't a doubt in my mind we would have beat the undefeated New England team in the Super Bowl, I never got over that, but I think this year's Super Bowl did make up for it.
I think losing that game a few years ago is what had motivated our guys so much this year. They didn't want that to happen again. They wanted a ring even more than they did in 2007.
You can edit your posts, you know. :smile:
I couldn't even imagine Favre coming back to be a back up. This needs to be over. Next year or the year after retire his number, throw him a party and lets move on. I was a huge Favre fan and I loved what he did for Green Bay but he did and said things that made me lose a lot of respect for him. They owe it to Rodgers, the rest of the players and the fans to get this out of the way.I too hated seeing all the Favre fans jump ship when he left the Packers, and especially after he arrived in Minnesota. However, the one good thing about that happening is that is weeded out the fake fans from the real fans.
Also, Ivo, no it does not make you less of a die hard fan. If you feel that team was better over all, then that is how you feel. I have about a 60/40 swing going here myself, favoring the Rodgers lead Packers. Although I do feel it would have been nice to see Favre go out with a bang, and still mostly in good standing with all of us.
I personally feel that Favre would have retired if we won in '07. The whole reason I think he said he wanted to come back was because he had SUCH a good year in 2007 and got SO close that he just KNEW he could do it again. It would be like having your wife (or husband) cook you your favorite dinner, naked, and then taking it all away at the last second!
Also, I am just going to throw this out there: If Favre WOULD decide to ever play and again the Packers DID reach out to him I would be ok with him coming back as a back up to Aaron. He deserves to retire as a Packer. Maybe even get one more Super Bowl in after we win it next year!!! Oh, and ofcourse he would have to battle Matt Flynn for the #2 spot.
Yeah, I think I'd go along the lines of what Lag said. In '07, if we had won that would have been it, 1 SB win. Farve would have retired for real. Now, with Rodgers we have the potential for more. So I'd have to go with now. Although the loss in 07 was the worst loss in my 30 years as a Packer fan.
Makes me smile to think the Viking fans got to experience what we did in '07 a few years later. Packer fans kept telling em, wait until the big game comes and Farve will F up. And then the Bears get knocked out by GB this year (very similar to how the Giants did it to us in '07). All the smack the Vike/Bear fans were talking after the '07 loss, they got to experience the gut kick themselves. And the Bears was even sweeter cause it was from GB delivering it! Gotta love Karma.
I think the 07' loss gave this team the determination, dedication, and vision to win and avoid the kind of heart breaking experience of the '07 kind of loss again. Similarly how the Lombardi team in 1960 after losing to the Eagles gave them the spark to go on and win 5 Championships after that. I'm hoping this means great things for the Packers. MM had built a team of winners, and the leadership in the locker room, well, I personally think its as good as any in the league and better than most.