My one and only Lambeau Field experience.

What is this, an exercise in politeness? Like, “oh, here’s a Vikings fan posting a blog on a Packer site complete with some good-natured jockularity ah-hah-hah-hah Let’s all be civil to him and show how classy we are.”

…very mixed emotions here…

On the one hand, I detest the Vikings and honestly hope they move. On the other hand, I’m sure you’re a nice guy and whatever. But then again, why does a Vikings fan post a blog on a Packer site in the first place? …to tell us Lambeau is a great stadium? We know that. …and that the stadium formerly known as the Twinkiedome sucks? We know that too. We’ve been there. The best part about it is the T-shirt canons. …which obviously suck.

I mean, I’m confused here… do Packer fans post on the DN with good-natured “oh-ho-ho, our rivalry is really quite spirited” blogs? They probably do, I guess.

I think I probably feel the same way as did the people sitting around you at Lambeau: “yuck.” A guy would get his ass kicked in Philly for that kind of thing. …which I don’t approve of, but… still.

Be thankful Packer fans that you have an iconic stadium to watch your team play.

The last time I went to watch a game in a new stadium the thing I noticed was how much it felt like a big Costco. The last time I was at Lambeau I was absorbed in the experience although Lambeau has many modern features after the last renovation was completed. Maybe part of that is just being a diehard fan but making a stadium seem somehow iconic seems beyond any modern architect.

the oldest had a bears jersey, the second oldest had a packers jersey, the third oldest had a vikings jersey, and the youngest had a detroit jersey. They ranged from 13 to 5 years in age.

all I remember from that was thinking how awesome and stupid the parents were at the same time

Definitely have to agree with the iconic stadium thought and as someone said earlier about new stadiums feeling like oversized Costco’s. Theres nothing like watching a game or even just being at an old time, classic stadium. Ive beene to Lambeau once and it was one of the greatest days of my life, and I went in 2005 when the team was 1-6 at the time and the lost to the Steelers (who would win the Bowl). It was an amazing experience that involved my team being 1-6 and i cant wait to be there again when the team is having a successful season. Ill never forget Lambeau Field and I always think of it in the same vein as Yankee Stadium to me. Being in NY, Ive been to alot of games at the old stadium and a couple at the new one. While the new stadium is amazing it just doesnt have the same feel and appeal as the classic stadium. Thats just how special Lambeau & Yankee Stadium are to me with their classic history and traditions and its something the new stadiums of today lack.

I just don’t buy it. It’ll get resolved at the last minute. Right now it’s the same thing that went on for years in Milwaukee: political musical chairs, where those with the authority to get the stadium built try to avoid being seen as the deciding voter that either:

1) spends hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars;

or

2) sends the state’s NFL team packing.

If one or two people are seen as the deciding voters that cause either of those 2 results, they lose their jobs, and they know it. It’s what happened to Petaki (or whatever his name was) whose change in vote saved the Brewers for Wisconsin and cost him his career as a legislator.

But sooner or later, someone will get talked into being the last guy to vote yes. They’ll be offered a job, or friendship they can use to get a job later, and they’ll vote yes. The voters will be outraged, but you’ll have your Vikings.

I hate the freaking Vikings. I hate their purple uniforms, their lousy stadium, their piped in crowd noise, those stupid and historically inaccurate horned helmets, the fake Helga hair hats the moronic fans wear, that otherwise unemployed dude who toots his horn while wearing rat fur on the sidelines, and Brett Freaking Favre. But I don’t want them anywhere else. How am I supposed to get worked up about playing the Los Angeles Vikings of Anaheim, or whatever the hell they’’ll be called out there? I’m supposed to hate the Bears, but I haven’t been able to really commit to that since the ‘89, and when I was a kid (in the 70’s), it was the Vikings who mattered. I watched the Vikings crush the Packers for 5 straight years when I first became a fan before I finally got to see the Packers win a game against them, and that bitter little 7 year old still lives in my heart. Any game the Vikings win is a tragedy, and every heart-breaking playoff loss they suffer is a triumph.

The Vikings mean almost as much to me as the Packers do, and I don’t want that lousy state you live in taking that away from me.

I feel like I should start another post about Favre or something…