Packers vs Classless Vikings

[FloridaRob]

Well the day is finally here. The long time beloved leader of the Packers is going to suit up against his former team in the colors of their hated enemy. Of all the teams in the league we could accept him playing for, this one is not it. They are the Packers most hated rival. The Bears are a great rival who actually respect each other. They go about their business the right way. The Vikings on the other hand are a classless organization who can't build a team on their own but have to get former Packer players on their roster in their attempt to be successful.

How funny is it that the Vikings need a new stadium in the worse way and their best chance of getting one is by riding the coattails of the most famous Packer to ever play. Still with all the shenanigans the Vikings have pulled, it took a field goal miss last year by the Packers to keep the Vikings from losing 6 games in a row.

They have the biggest case of envy a football team could have. Maybe the Jets are up there in trying to always one-up the Patriots but the Vikings methods put them in a classless class all their own. Their obsession with the Packers is beyond anything healthy. Examples over the past 20 yrs alone are the Vikings put a no 4 on a blocking dummy, signed Packer free agents as soon as they went on the market at ridiculous contracts, were so scared that their choice for head coach might actually prefer Green Bay to Minnesota that they hurriedly performed a couple of sham interviews to satisfy the league just so he would not leave the building, (thank God for that) signed Aaron Kampman to an offer sheet, cheated their way thru the StarCaps mess, lied and tampered with Favre while he was still property of the Packers and of course lied their way out of it, head coach runs off the field to ignore the customary handshake after his team lost another game to the Packers, the love-boat episode, and so on and so on. They really are the depths of a classless franchise.

So tonight everybody is picking the Vikings to win. They may do it. But it won't be because of FAvre. If the Packers O-line can not block the Viking D-line it will be a long night for the Packers. The College-Allen matchup will determine the outcome, not Favre vs anything else. As hyped as the game is tonight, teh November 1 game at Lambeau will be 100 x worse. Bratt Favre has contributed mightly to his tarnished legacy as a Packer with his manipulative ways over the past 15 months and and will probably take years for PackerNation to welcome him back. He does not need to worry about his legacy anymore. He has destroyed it by himself.

If by some miracle, the Vikings win a Super Bowl under Favre, the league should give them a fake Super Bowl trophy because having to win it with a legendary Packer just makes the win a cheap immitation. Just like the whole organization.....

 

[Doomsday101]

I'm picking the classless Vikes to win the game tonight. :laugh2:

 

[FloridaRob]

I'm picking the classless Vikes to win the game tonight. :laugh2:

that bus is full up. Nobody is picking Green Bay. The only solace I find in that is that whenever two pretty good teams are playing and everybody is on one side, that side more times than not ends up laying an egg. And if Favre is amped up like many of us expect, then that may be a good night for the Packers. Hopefully he comes out bombing away like he did in the Dallas game a couple of years ago.

 

[zrinkill]

I am rooting for the Hated Packers tonight ....

I have had my fill of the Favrings.

 

[Doomsday101]

that bus is full up. Nobody is picking Green Bay. The only solace I find in that is that whenever two pretty good teams are playing and everybody is on one side, that side more times than not ends up laying an egg. And if Favre is amped up like many of us expect, then that may be a good night for the Packers. Hopefully he comes out bombing away like he did in the Dallas game a couple of years ago.

I hold nothing aginst Favre he wanted to play and the Vikes brought him in. I can see how Packer fans would be upset with him, why anyone else is I don't get it.

 

[ArmyCowboy]

So why exactly are the Vikings classless?

I must have missed the reasoning in the OP.

 

[WarC]

So my football weekend was supposed to be great. Wisconsin was gonna walk all over the Gophers and retain the axe...They did, but it came down to the last second. Then my first love the Cowboys were going to expose Denver...I saw plenty of Orton in Chicago up here NFC Northville so I knew there were going to be plenty of turnover oppertunities...But that came down to the last second and man was that a heartbreaker. Two tries in the endzone and to waste those oppertunities on Sam freakin' Hurd against Champ freakin' Bailey. Man.

OK so this is the wrong thread for that. But my point is, the loss took my fan glasses off and I've had a brief moment of total football clarity.

The Packers will have their hands full with the Vikings' front seven...They're a very strong unit and the Packers' struggling O-line is a big question mark. And the Vikings offense is now potentially explosive with Favre at QB and AP at half back. Rodgers will need atleast three seconds in pass protection to work their offense as its doubtful they'll get 100+ yds out of the running game. As usual it will all come down to control of the line of scrimmage and in that respect the Packers D will probably need to come up with a big game inorder for the Packers to win. Time to see if that 3-4 defense is playing in playoff form.

I think its the Vikings' game to lose but ya'll know who I'll be rooting for.

 

[BrAinPaiNt]

I will be watching House, Heroes and Lie To me.

Screw the packers and vikings.

 

[FloridaRob]

So why exactly are the Vikings classless?

I must have missed the reasoning in the OP.

lets see, StarCaps, Whizzinator, Love-Boat, Tampering, a head coach running off the field to keep from the customary mid-field handshake, Childress actually questioning McCarthys systems and schemes after Childress finally won a game, riding the coattails of a former Packer to get a community tax for a new stadium, and a number of other questionalbe organizaton decisions. ***** Envy is alive and well in Minneapolis. They want to be the Packers. If they can't they want to be a cheap immitation....

 

[FloridaRob]

I will be watching House, Heroes and Lie To me.

Screw the packers and vikings.

yea, and I bet you won't be clicking to the game during commercial breaks either.

 

[BrAinPaiNt]

yea, and I bet you won't be clicking to the game during commercial breaks either.

When you have DVR...you fast forward through Commercials...greatest thing ever.

 

[ArmyCowboy]

lets see, StarCaps, Whizzinator, Love-Boat, Tampering, a head coach running off the field to keep from the customary mid-field handshake, Childress actually questioning McCarthys systems and schemes after Childress finally won a game, riding the coattails of a former Packer to get a community tax for a new stadium, and a number of other questionalbe organizaton decisions. ***** Envy is alive and well in Minneapolis. They want to be the Packers. If they can't they want to be a cheap immitation....

You're a Cowboys fan, went through the 90's with everything our players, Barry Swtzer and Jerry Jones did, and want to call the Vikings classless for starcaps and the loveboat incident?

 

[FloridaRob]

You're a Cowboys fan, went through the 90's with everything our players, Barry Swtzer and Jerry Jones did, and want to call the Vikings classless for starcaps and the loveboat incident?

uh, no! I am a Packer fan. I guess you did not get the memo. The Cowboy during those years at least did things their own way tho. They never were trying to piggy back off another team to have their success. Right or wrong, the Cowboys have a few trophies to back up their way of doing business. The Vikings don't have anything but an envious organization whose only goal in one-up the Packers.

 

[ArmyCowboy]

uh, no! I am a Packer fan. I guess you did not get the memo. The Cowboy during those years at least did things their own way tho. They never were trying to piggy back off another team to have their success. Right or wrong, the Cowboys have a few trophies to back up their way of doing business. The Vikings don't have anything but an envious organization whose only goal in one-up the Packers.

Got it.

Enjoy your hate then, I guess.

 

[Rampage]

Go Favre!

 

[Doomsday101]

uh, no! I am a Packer fan. I guess you did not get the memo. The Cowboy during those years at least did things their own way tho. They never were trying to piggy back off another team to have their success. Right or wrong, the Cowboys have a few trophies to back up their way of doing business. The Vikings don't have anything but an envious organization whose only goal in one-up the Packers.

I thought their goal was to try and win a SB like all the other team? They have a very good defense, a very good RB in Peterson and a QB that is much better than anything they have had in a good while. I guess it could be argued that they are playing for 1 or 2 years max to win a SB.

 

[FloridaRob]

I thought their goal was to try and win a SB like all the other team? They have a very good defense, a very good RB in Peterson and a QB that is much better than anything they have had in a good while. I guess it could be argued that they are playing for 1 or 2 years max to win a SB.

most other teams feel that way but the Vikings organization is obsessed with the Packers. Always have been and always will be. They are a 2nd rate organization that has lives to try to one-up the Packers and consistently fail miserably.

 

[poke]

how is it Favres legacy is tarnished if the Packers didnt want him and he moved on to somebody who did ?

plus i have always hated the Packers and always will.

 

[FloridaRob]

how is it Favres legacy is tarnished if the Packers didnt want him and he moved on to somebody who did ?

plus i have always hated the Packers and always will.

revisionist history. Favre retired. He then waffled about a month after his retirement and the team was willing to take him back again. Again he reinforced his retirement. He then waffled again and again the Packer were going to let him come back-he then backed out again. Finally, on the last day of OTAs he called and said he was coming back for good. The Packers said no. They controlled his contract. He was not a free agent and could not tell the Packers what to do but proceeded the next month and a half to dictate he wanted his release so he could go the Vikings. The Packers said no as they wre not going to let him to to a team they were competing against in the division and rightfully so. Favre was fine in this drama until the Packers decided to give their version of the timeline. This revealed for the first time all the waffling Favre had done since his retirement and also how he threw his friend James Campen under the bus.

Favre and his entourage for the first time took a shot across the bow of the king of PackerNation and he went ballistic. He went onto a full court press by going on Gretta VAn Sustrens show, leaking things he wanted to be leaked to Mort and Peter King, and trying to force his way to Minnesota. The final straw was a meeting between McCarthy and Favre that was nothign but a three hour screaming match between the two with Favre telling McCarthy how to coach the team. Even at that time Favre would not commit to doing what was necessary to play QB for GB with the main intention to force his way to Minny with the Packers relenting to trade him

PackerNation went from thinking their favorite son was an "aw shucks, I just love the game," to a manipultive, egotisitical, self serving guy who showed by sticking it to his friend James Campen would also stick it to the fans that supported him for all the years. His legacy thru the league is probably intact, but among PackerNation, other than the fringe FAvre Fanatics, his legacy is so damaged it will be years before it can be restored.

 

[FloridaRob]

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