The Giant fans are always calling us a bunch of whiners for Clay Matthews comments about how we beat ourselves against them last year in the playoffs. They think it was awesome we got shafted against Seattle. I think it would be just awesome if we beat them in the playoffs this year in New York.
Haha...yeah...I've scoped out one of the Giant fan forums as well. Fact is that the Packers didn't beat themselves, the Giant's out-and-out beat Green Bay in the playoffs last year. The Pack were out-coached and out-played on nearly every level...and we, as fans (and Matthews, I might add), haven't embraced that concept too well. Thing is that the type of fan who won't recognize that is the same type of fan who would go onto another team's fan forum and be something less than a gracious winner or loser, is the type of Giant fan who would use the term crybaby. On the flip-side of that coin...that forum does indeed have Packers fans who go on and 'qualify' a defeat into something other than what it was. Just my opinion -- but, it does make for fun reading.
Rivals outside the division. Moving target depending on who is currently pi**ing us off. Right now, it is the Giants -- or rather, the Giants fans -- and I too would love to see the Pack and Giants in the playoffs this year with a polar opposite end result of last year.
In the late 90's obviously, it was the Cowbags but frankly, they were just a more talented team during their "window". I'll never forget comment offered by the biggest blow-hole the NFL has ever seen after the Pack
blew (yeah, I'm qualifying a loss) the NFC Championship game against the Cowbags. The Pack had defeated the Champion 9'ers the week before in the Divisional (which is one of the most memorable games of my lifetime) and the press did as the press does ... a full week of nothing but "The upstart Packers...." -- it was enough to make a guy puke. Still, after the game, Michael Irvin (the blow-hole referred to earlier) said, and I'm paraphrasing, "Yeah, it's midnight so Cinderella can go home" in a post game interview ... that's when I suddenly and viciously developed a serious dislike of that team. Up until that point, I was indifferent toward them because the 9'ers always seemed to clean their clocks and I've always been a secondary 9'ers fan... anyway.... right now, the Giants.