So Just How Boring Are We?

Well, it’s not everyday you see a team totally collapse, as Dallas clearly did. The Packers could have had a clown on stilts spinning plates on sticks kicking their extra points and Wade would’ve still been the story today.

isn’t exactly the exciting interview of the year. Personally, I like that our play does our talking and that we don’t have a bunch of dumba**es whining/bragging all the time. Peyton Manning is “boring” but TO and Ochocinco are exciting – guess who I’d rather have on my team?

Short version – I’m happy to have the national media ignore us. We seem to play better when they do, and we don’t have players making us look like fools when we lose.

but if we have to put up with the Ochos, TOs and Mosses of the world, then I like being boring. I can see why some other fans may think the Pack gets special treatment, we’ve had some REALLY questionable calls go our way lately, the 2 picks against the Jets and yesterday the fumble recovery. I hope we save a couple for the playoffs.

You can only take most vikings fans comments with a pinch of grain and salt. It seems after every loss, the viking fans ALWAYS blame the refs. It’s never the fact that they were outplayed. Personally, I could care less. Yes, we’ve had some luck, but to think the refs are giving us the game just makes that person sound really dumb. Penalties work both ways. That’s a part of the game. Refer to the MN game, bad calls on both sides. I think what you are hearing is the tune of the violin.

Yes, the Packers are very boring when it comes to the Front Office. Are they the most boring team in the offseason? No, the only time you hear about the Steelers in the offseason is for Superbowl talk or Roethlisberger. You never hear about big signings or trades out of Pittsburgh, ok, well, rarely (Holmes, if this counts as big news). GB is very different from MN and CHI in this aspect. We don’t beg an over the hill grandpa to be our savior. We don’t make any flashy trades for Jared Allen or Randy Moss. We don’t pay a lazy but talented DE a QB salary. And we are the ones leading the division. So you tell me what method works…

We did have a couple big plays go our way against NY and Dallas. Was it the refs fault or the opposing Head Coach’s fault? The refs played it out to be safe because they were unsure. If they are not sure, the play can be reviewed. If they blow it dead, then it’s dead and they better be right that it was a dead play or they face heavy criticsm. It just so happened Rex Ryan and Wade Phillips couldn’t use their challenges. Lucky? Yes. Favored by refs? No. That’s common sense. To think we are always lucky is ridiculous. After all, we have been hit hard by injuries. Last year the Vikings had the luck. This year they don’t. You can’t always have it. This year we got a couple breaks in 2 games, only 1 of which had a significant impact.

I have to think about where I am going before I wear my Packers cap out in public. Even just walking in to a grocery store, at least six people will want to talk about the Packers to me. When I moved into my apartment I had to wait for the gas man to come and turn on the gas. He showed up and I had my cap on. As soon as he saw me he goes, “Green Bay Packers fan, I like you already!” Everybody in LA wants to talk about the Packers.

Personally I am glad the team is playing as well as they are and not the subject of news stories full of scandal and failure like the Cowboys and the Vikings. Go Packers!

Is that even before the news about Sunday Night’s game shifted to Wade Phillips getting fired, everyone was instead talking about how Brent Favre got the Vikings back into the race, how they will soon take off and win the NFC North. It seems ESPN has decided the letters “NFL” mean “National Favre League”. Last I heard, Minnesota was 3-5, just one game ahead of Detroit (yes, that is true) and looking up at Chicago and Green Bay in the NFC North.

So you’re absolutely right … Green Bay really does not get much of the limelight, and I prefer it that way.

Boring, but produces results.

Why are you bothering to consider anything that Viqueen fans say? They are a whiny bunch of babies who are still blaming the refs for losing to NO in the championship last year. If the NFL hates the Queens so much why haven’t they suspended Bert Pevre yet? If it were Braylon Edwards or James Harrison, they’d be sitting already.

That’s why the Pack doesn’t get top billing. Every time they get to talking about the Packers, it’s about the significant injuries and – oh by the way, they’re playing really well despite it. No ’they’re leading their division,‘; no ’they are tied with the defending Superbowl champs…’

If the Packers are benefitting from anything, it’s the doubt these “experts” have of them achieving anything beyond the regular season. I originally thought beating the Bears and shutting out the Vikings would be the landmark games to achieve after the bye. I’m actually looking to see how well they fare against the Falcons and Giants. The Packers win those games and the talk will heat up.

On last check. they dont make rings or banners for being the most media friendly. And the drama queens like TO, Chad Eight-Five, and Moss have won exactly nothing in the league. Moss and the aformetioned WRs listed above all have some great numbers, but like I said before, they dont make rings for great stats.

The media is always gonna crush on the attention grabbers, and I for one love the fact that my favorite team is deemed boring and kitchy. Like someone else talked about on one of the previous posts; Who is the Superbowl trophy named after? Why do they call Green Bay Titletown? How many Superbowl, Division Titles, Championships have we won? They can have the drama. we’ll take the trophies.

I didn’t blame the refs for are 18 penalty debacle in Chicago, it was more the undiciplined team on the field.
  If the Vikes and dallas want all the headlines and end up missing the playoffs,(which I think is going to happen) So be it, its just good drama.
 We are kind of where we were last year coming off a couple of sub par perfomances only to come back in the second half of the season and finish strong?
Our offense looks like it found its mojo. And the Defense is playing lights out. Even our Special Teams have improved a little.
 So if boring means a Lomardi trophy so be it. Let everybody else grab the headlines.

I hate the wait during bye-week, even though the players and the team need it right now. But the aiting til the next game is killer. AND BORING!

IF we beat Atlanta and the Giants, THEN we can say we’re good.

based upon other SB Nation Sites

By no means did I mean to imply that I want the drama. Good riddence to it! Like many of you, I prefer a thing called winning…and team chemistry…and a classy organization…and a long range plan….and well…..the Green Bay Packers.

Really this whole piece was just a fed up part of me hearing how everyone loves the Packers when really the national media loves a story and not any one team. This was my attempt at a manifesto to try and point that out and debunk the whole “Packer media bias.”

for keeping these comments open beyond a week, in light of the continuing conversations.

Sorry to be showing up late, but I think most of the complaints that were about this subject were to the point that every one consistantly thinks Green Bay or the Cowboys will be superbowl bound in the preseason. That is pretty annoying, and as a fan I would even find it annoying if they did it to my team.

As for the reason you aren’t getting any attention now, well it doesn’t take much to figure that out. The Vikes are spectacularly imploding. The Sterger affair, the Moss Fiasco, Childress being a completel douche nozzle, the team maybe not even being in Minnesota, Rice refusing to play for a losing team, star caps, harvin getting into fights with the freaken coach the list goes on. Trust me I would be more than happy for that crap storm to be in your laps instead of ours. It’s gotten to the point where 70% of discussions at DN are non football related. Rediculous. Then you have the Cowboys -nuff said… Between these two teams there isn’t enough air time for anything else. Hell I WISH it would stop, it’s tough being a Viking fan right now lot of ridicule for the team.

Anyway enjoy your season I have a feeling you’ll go a long way into the play offs this year.