{"id":369,"date":"2008-01-19T15:34:50","date_gmt":"2008-01-19T21:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/2008-01-19\/go-you-packers\/"},"modified":"2008-01-19T15:34:50","modified_gmt":"2008-01-19T21:34:50","slug":"go-you-packers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/19\/go-you-packers\/","title":{"rendered":"Go You Packers!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/images.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"favreyay\" align=\"left\" \/>I&#8217;m a football fan who was born in Wisconsin.\u00a0 I grew up where the Steelers, then Bears, then Rams (well, once), then Niners play their games but in the back of my mind I was a Packer fan.\u00a0 The story of Lambeau, Lombardi, Starr, Neitzche, McGee, and the rest was known to me and I always cringed when people made fun of the hapless Pack.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t watch a lot of football as a result.\u00a0 The one-two-punch of Football videogaming (it was Real Talk Joe Montana for Genesis if you must know) and the Forty-Niners winning the Superbowl while I was in SF and in college made me a fan again.\u00a0 Moving to Wisconsin in 1995 &#8211; just as White, Holmgren and Favre were getting started &#8211; made the Packers my obsession.\u00a0 Madden, year-after-year made me a fan of the game itself.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>We had that spectacular run.\u00a0 After 30 years of lameness the Packers blew the Patriots out and won Favre&#8217;s first Superbowl &#8211; then they were en route to #2 in a row when Elway&#8217;s destiny came and kicked them in the face. (Not to take anything away from Elway, he&#8217;s magnificent, but &#8220;destiny&#8221; that year was actually named Terrell Davis).<\/p>\n<p>I figured it would end and we&#8217;d go back to lameness for a few decades.\u00a0 Instead the Pack has had exactly one losing season since and made the Playoffs a handful of times.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody expected this year.\u00a0 What a phenomenal team.\u00a0 What a QuarterBack Brett Favre is.\u00a0 The guy is two years older and twenty years younger than me.\u00a0 Good luck tonight Brett.\u00a0 You have to beat these Giants.\u00a0 Why? Because it&#8217;s time to beat down the Patriots in the Superbowl again!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a football fan who was born in Wisconsin.\u00a0 I grew up where the Steelers, then Bears, then Rams (well, once), then Niners play their games but in the back of my mind I was a Packer fan.\u00a0 The story of Lambeau, Lombardi, Starr, Neitzche, McGee, and the rest was known to me and I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}