Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk.com was just on Minneapolis radio station KFAN with Vikings Play-by-play announcer Paul Allen and gave his thoughts on the Mike McCarthy/Ted Thompson situation in Green Bay. Check out the audio.
floriokfan111009.mp3I felt the need to make a followup to my previous post. Today continued the downward spiral of what was once the greatest franchise in sports history. After an amazing 13-3 season with Brett Favre 2 years ago, leading the Green Bay Packers to their 1st NFC Championship game in 10 years, the Mike McCarthy/Ted Thompson show has gone on to a absolutely pathetic 10-14 record.
The Packers let a rookie quarterback making his first NFL start with a winless team who had no offensive coordinator at the start of the season(and a defensive coordinator we fired) absolutely put the knife into the franchise a little bit deeper. It doesn’t get any worse from here. Good thing the team got a chance to play the 4 worst teams in the league that after Week 9 have a combined win total of….4(ironic, i guess). Can you imagine how bad things would be if we actually had to compete with NFL caliber teams each week? I can’t.
When the Green Bay Packers were incorporated in 1923, the Articles of Incorporation stated that if the franchise was sold, all the funds remaining after payment of all the teams expenses, would be given to the Sullivan-Wallen Post of the American Legion to help build memorials for soldiers. This was however changed at a November 1997 Green Bay Packers shareholding meeting after a shareholder vote. The beneficiary was changed to the Green Bay Packers Foundation. Among the approximately $150,000 the group gives out each year to organizations throughout the state, is the Packers Scholarship Program. This program has in the past given out scholarships to potential students in associate degrees at Northeast Wisconsin Technical College. I have a strong hunch the Green Bay Packers Foundation will likely have a lot more money on their hands in the near future. With that hunch, I offer you the information on how to submit applications to the foundation to be considered for a scholarship.
The foundation will start accepting applications after February 1, 2010. Submit your request in writing to the following address:
Margaret Meyers
Green Bay Packers Foundation
P.O. Box 10628
Green Bay, WI 54307-0628
For more information you may contact Margaret Meyers at (920) 569-7315 or meyersm@packers.com
This game was unreal. That we cant come to play on such a huge night in our own stadium. I just cant get over that. The vikings have taken over this division. They beat us twice. The bears play them 2 times yet and can at least control bringing themselves 2 games closer.
This may be the beginning of the end of this franchise. We lost a quality product and there is no getting lucky again like we did with Reggie. This team unloaded everything they had getting greedy with Rodgers. Favre was simply let go so Arod would not leave Green Bay and because TTs career hinged on the success of Arod. Favre was pushed out to make sure this franchise did not fall into a slump for years for drafting a QB too early. This team is in complete shambles. Its becoming an embarrassment..I mean shit, we have 3 guys jumping into each other falling down, QBs being sacked 30 times in the first 8 games with an o-line looking so stupid I wouldn’t even line up if i were them, special teams that is a joke – missed field goals, terrible return defense with fucking Ahman Green returning balls..a man that cant run or hold onto a football. You have about 75% of the city not wanting the MC or TT show to continue. Its exposing the packers as a team that was always considered a team to beat and a classy top tier team and now are being looked at as a team like the lions, redskins or raiders. I don’t think we can get over this one. There wont be another thing that can bring us back..the chance of anything as huge as Reggie coming in free agency to save this team again is not good.
We’ll start seeing people in the stands wearing bags on their heads like in Detroit. This city doesn’t do shit like that – the city and the team were always best friends. Snowballs will be thrown out like in Cleveland, planes being flown with notes trailing behind, people wearing even more fire Ted Thompson shirts than they do now. Embarrassing us all.
Now that i think about it, TT should be fired mid season. If not who knows how much damage this fiasco is going to do.
Its going to be many many years before this team regains its legacy, If ever. We’ll probably have to just shut the thing down because we won’t be able to keep up with revenue deals and will eventually need a new stadium. We wont get a public tax vote again..and if we did it wouldn’t pass. It only passed by 1% point last time riding the wave of one of the best NFL teams in history destroying every opponent.
I hope you have tickets because you wont be seeing them here much longer..you know, with the blackouts coming.
We had some rough times in past 18 years. But we had a team with the entire community rallying behind because of the class and excitement brought here when Reggie appeared on SI in shoulder pads announcing his decision – it shook up the NFL. Regardless to whether Brett retired this year or in 2028 had this team been led by #4 until that point the class, respect and envy the entire world had for it wouldn’t be gone already. The most storied franchise in sports did what shouldn’t have been possible. Splitting the city that lives and breathes green and gold into parts. And some of those same people now proudly support the purple.
This franchise is a joke. We should get some of those people who braved the extreme cold to shovel for 6 bucks and hour, just to get the chance to see the legendary field and become history, to help pick the sod up for one last sod selling sale before motocross and snowmobile circuits set up shop at their new home.
I am a huge Aaron Rodgers fan. Favre wasn’t the only one we let go. This entire franchise was dismantled on the extremely bad odds that TT could ride the belief that the packers don’t do anything wrong. Bad odds and the belief is now gone. Its okay, ive come to realize its not my fault. This team is kind of like those baseball teams that win it all and then fail to win 20 games the next year. Building a team through the draft did not work and never did. Its not the formula we had when we went to back to back Super Bowls and it wont be the formula for any team ever. I don’t know we have more than a handful of players right now who won’t be going back to finish their final years of their degree after all is said and done here. Good luck in the real estate market guys.
Had Favre stayed and finished his career here and we ended up terrible after he left it would be okay. Everyone would understand. We wouldn’t have been tarnished like this. We would still be the town that had it all. With everyone rooting for us instead of trying to win radio contests for free PatMcCurdy tickets for the person with biggest bag on their head who gets on tv on gameday. People would understand and players would still want to come here. Instead, they would rather be playing for Al Davis in Oakland.
Last Tuesday Britney Spears released a new song called “3″ off her upcoming anniversary album. Call me crazy, but does this song seem to rip off Flo-Rida’s 2009 dance hit “Low”?
FloSpears.mp3The city of Green Bay is clearly best known for being the home of the Green Bay Packers, 12-time NFL league champions. While the city is known to be the smallest in the NFL, most do not realize how small it really is. With a 2000 census population of 102,313 and a 2006 census estimate of 100,353 it is loosing population. Although not at an alarming rate, it is no doubt showing around town. A recent visit back I couldn’t help but notice the signs of times changing. A drive down the once thriving Main St. shows building after building of vacancy. The downtown area has long been non-existent as well with eye-sore of the abandoned Port Plaza Mall(Washington Commons) with the anchor store Younkers recently demolished.
