Alright, I know this board houses fans of both sides. Let's hear it, who are ya rootin' for???
GO PACKERS!!!
KATIE....YOU DIDN'T!!!! NOT A FOOTBALL THREAD!!!
Lorster, if you're gonna post, you better pick a side!
I choose macaroni and cheese for my side.
DA BEARS!!
I know they suck this year.....but as they say...there's always next year.
I would pick the Cowboys over the Packers, if I had to pick. Just to rile my nephew who lives in Milwaukee and is a big Packers fan. LOL
[QUOTE=CinDee]I would pick the Cowboys over the Packers, if I had to pick. Just to rile my nephew who lives in Milwaukee and is a big Packers fan. LOL[/QUOTE]
That, and you don't want Lisa to feel lonely.....right? You are so right Katie, LOL...plus I don't those Packer's throwing rotten cheese at Lisa.
GO DALLAS!!!!!
Okay, I gotta ask - What the hell is a Packer? Cowboys, that's obvious, New England Patriots, that's pretty obvious, Browns - don't want to think about what that's referring to, but what is a packer?
LOL Karen...only YOU would ask such a question! The Green Bay Packers, from Wisconsin. Founded by the owner of a packing company, hence the name. Best American football team! & nbsp;
I can just see the commercials "PACKERS - THEIR GAMES ARE LARGER THAN LIFE AND SO ARE THEIR CUPS. WHEN WE SAY THEY'RE PACKIN' WE MEAN THEY'RE REALLY PACKIN'"
You're killin' me girlfriend!
On Aug. 11, 1919, a score or more husky young athletes, called
together by Curly Lambeau and George Calhoun, gathered in the dingy
editorial room of the old Green Bay Press-Gazette building on
Cherry Street and organized a football team. They didn't know it, but
that was the beginning of the incredible saga of the Green Bay Packers.
Lambeau and Calhoun struck the initial spark a few weeks before,
during a casual street-corner conversation. It was apparently a "Why
not get up a football team?" remark, but once they were interested they
wasted no time.
First they talked Lambeau's employer -- a war-time industry called
the Indian Packing Company, where he worked as a shipping clerk for
0/month -- into putting up money for jerseys.
That first season the team won 10 and lost only one, against foes
from Wisconsin and Upper Michigan. Games were played in an open field
with no fences or bleachers, and interested fans "passed the hat." But
the team was so successful by 1921 that Lambeau was backed by two
officials of the packing plant in obtaining a franchise (Aug. 27, 1921)
in the new national pro football league that had been formed in 1920.
Cash customers didn't quite pay the freight and the team had to be
forfeited at year's end.
This was the first in a long series of troubles that the now famous
team overcame, for in 1922 Lambeau gained other backers and bought the
franchise back for 0, including of his own money. Troubles
continued during that season. One game was rained out and the insurance
company wouldn't pay off because the official amount of rain was one
one-hundredth of an inch short of that required in the policy.
However, another storm late in the season, when the Packers were
scheduled to play the Duluth Kelleys, threatened to throw Lambeau
further into debt. But A.B. Turnbull, Green Bay Press-Gazette
general manager, advanced Lambeau the Duluth guarantee. He then lobbied
town businessmen ("The Hungry Five") behind the team, and formed the
Green Bay Football Corporation.
From those modest and somewhat tenuous beginnings, the Packers have
gone on to earn national stature and virtual world-wide recognition by
winning more championships (12) over the intervening 80-plus years than
any team in pro football.
These achievements, while representing a town of approximately
100,000 in competition with the country's largest markets, have
endeared the Packers to the nation. The David vs. Goliath concept and
the team's unique status as a publicly owned corporation has intrigued
generations.
The Packers' colorful saga spans 88 years from the "Iron Man"
period of the first decade under founder Lambeau, to the present day,
which finds Mike McCarthy presiding as the team's 14th head coach.
At least it wasn't a "fudge packing" plant.....
Badda Bing!
Shazaam!! [QUOTE=arriscolwell]At least it wasn't a "fudge packing" plant.....
Badda Bing!
[/QUOTE]Here goes Jasmine with that computer for a brain...packed full of off the wall information.
BTW didn't Vince Lombardi make the packers a "name" in football?
Chapter 6: The Lombardi Era
Well Texas's mascot should be Ol' Sparky!
Blessed!