Tagged With "Hall of Fame"
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Re: Let's Talk Cowboys (Divisional Playoff Game 1/15/17)
This Dallas offense is tailor made to beat the Pack. They can possess the ball, keeping it away from Arod, they have speed and size at WR and a Hall of Fame TE to tickle our soft middle. We have to get them out of their comfort zone by forcing them into a shootout.
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Re: Let's Remember Some Guys
Howard "Smiley" Johnson Only Packer WWII casualty of war. From Packers.com: The roll call needs to start with Howard "Smiley" Johnson, the Packers' only war casualty. Recipient of two Silver Stars, Johnson was killed in action at Iwo Jima. He played guard for the Packers in 1940 and '41, and was a second lieutenant with the 23rd Marines when he died at age 28. Johnson grew up in an orphanage near Clarksville, Tenn., and played college football at the University of Georgia. With the Packers,...
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Re: Round 1 Pick 26 (From Miami) QB Jordan Love Utah State
The pick is not as crazy as it seems. Rodgers is not the QB he used to be and his contract is effectively up in three years, when Rodgers turns 40. Brady and Brees have made it work at age 40 but Rodgers relies more on his athleticism than both, so I think Rodgers sees more of a decline in the next three years. And when it happens, it's a cliff. Look at Favre. And even though Manning won that Super Bowl, his play was so bad that last year that it was actually a minor controversy to bench...
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Re: 2019 Free Agency Moves/Trades/Releases
You're joking, right. There is no "team designation" in NFL hall of fame...
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Re: 2019 Free Agency Moves/Trades/Releases
Fair point on the Big Ben-Brown dynamic. The main point is that I think the reward greatly outweighs the risk, and the worst case scenario is that he does become a cancer and you cut him. I wouldn't sign him as a free agent for a 90 million in guaranteed money (a Khalil Mack type contract) because then you are stuck and can't cut him. But to get a Hall of Fame receiver near his prime for a third round pick and a 12 million dollar cap hit if it doesn't work out is worth it.
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Re: IT's BEARS WEEK!
Not unlike Minnesota's serial killer, Andrew Cunanen, the guy who went on a killing spree from Minnesota to Florida on his mission to kill Giani Versace. Which he did, BTW. Not the kind of fame Minnesota was looking for. Fame is a double edged, four letter word.
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Re: 2019 (Team 101) Green Bay Packers @ Minnesota Vikings Game Thread.
Advice to MVS "No alligator arms and catch the damn ball!"
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Re: 2019 (Team 101) Green Bay Packers @ Minnesota Vikings Game Thread.
Zadarious Smith should be elected to Packers Hall Of Fame tomorrow.
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Re: + / -
I’m not going to get too rough on Jaire not grabbing that pick. In perfect weather-maybe. With the snow coming down, slippery ball, cold hands. Easier to critique from the comfort of our easy chairs. + 8-2, pretty healthy. Both Jones and Williams look great. Jimmy Graham turned back the clock. - Rodgers. Not so much his passing. His decision making was awful. Throwing 30+ yards downfield on third down is a low probability completion. Great when it happens to convert, but all those times it...
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Re: It's Redskins Week
My buddy Andy from my softball team is going to his first Lambeau Game with his wife, using my brother's season tickets. California Boy, lifelong Packer fan, giving him all sorts of advice (Day before Stadium tour and Hall of Fame, Kroll's, strolling the parking lot, etc.)
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Re: It's Redskins Week
I'm taking my friend Brad to the game as well. He's from the south, don't think he's ever been north of Indianapolis. I asked him if he needed to borrow any cold weather clothes, he said no he had some long johns he would probably wear. Going to help him get some stuff to wear...
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Re: 2020 Pro Bowl
The Pro Bowl is a waste of time. Just another chance for a player to sustain an injury. Nothing is gained by going to the Pro Bowl, except more dollars flowing into the NFL coffers. In the MLB All Star game, the winner, at least gets home field advantage in the World Series. What does the winner of the Pro Bowl get? A two headed coin for the first coin toss of the upcoming regular season? A tour of the vikings hall of fame with an emphasis on their could've been-should've been trophies in...
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Re: Leroy Butler, HOF Finalist
Steve Atwater made it. Steve Mother Fucking Atwater. Bo Jackson ran Steve Fucking Atwater over like he was a retired DMV employee at Walmart handing out carts. Steve Fucking Atwater being in the NFL Hall of Fame before Leroy Butler is the biggest bag of bullshit I’ve ever seen. Steve Fucking Atwater in the HOF is a mother fucking joke. Fuck Steve Fucking Atwater.
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Re: Leroy Butler, HOF Finalist
How in the absolute living fuck is Steve Atwater a Hall of Fame member before Leroy Butler?
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Re: Leroy Butler, HOF Finalist
Nick Collins was a better safety than Steve Atwater. Nick put up better numbers in half the time Steve Fucking Atwater did. How is Steve Atwater a hall of fame safety? Seriously. Why is Steve Atwater in the hall? This question is more puzzling than Jeter not getting 100%.
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Re: Leroy Butler, HOF Finalist
If Bacteria wants to get into the "Haul" of fame, he's got to take care of his back, quit hanging around hotties and stop the beer chugging contests.
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Re: Leroy Butler, HOF Finalist
Peter King of NBC Sports is a Hall of Fame voter who apparently wasn't sold on Butler's qualifications for being inducted this year:
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Re: Leroy Butler, HOF Finalist
I think the Hall of Fame is getting too watered down. Too many "good" players that just stuck around for a long time and racked up stats, or good players who played on great teams. My criteria: 1) You were top 3 at your position for at least 3 years 2) You were top 10 at your position for the rest of the prime of your career Unsure where that leaves Butler. But the third criteria that I will throw out is how the player changed the game. Butler changed how safeties play. Not that he invented...
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Re: Packers Financials Released + Titletown District Info (new)
There are rumors that the Pro Football Hall of Fame is considering moving from Canton to Green Bay WI It would be a part of the Titletown Mecca and the HOF game would be played at Lambeau each year
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Re: Amazing Article on Ted Thompson's Success
I would rather be watching my team draft and develop its players than constantly be chasing FAs in the hope that one may make all the difference. Our guys get better each week and are invested in the GBP rather than somebody like Revis chasing the money and fame. (Not that I'd ignore a call from Revis' agent.
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Re: Bart Starr took part in stem cell trial
Not vouching for the veracity, and may or may not be related to stem cell therapy, but I hope this is true. Bart Starr Hoping To Attend Week 2 Game vs Vikings So you don't have to read the entire report: "Bart Starr is not only a Green Bay Packers legend, but he's also one of the legendary figures of today's NFL as was the first Super Bowl MVP. And it's very possible Packers fans will get to see Starr again when the Packers hit the field this fall. Starr's son, Bart Starr Jr., attended the...
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Re: Sue (Pats) vs Suh (Pfish) game thread
I had completely forgotten Jennings was even on the Phins this year he has been so quiet. Especially now that Philbin isn't there, he probably has nobody in his corner at this point. The guy had a pretty good career, but it's over. Actually, it was already kind of over about midway through 2011. He never was the same guy physically after about midway through that season. Off the field, I'll always think of Jennings as the really cool guy who came to our company's department picnics in Brown...
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Re: 2018 Packers Training Camp Master Thread
If there's some Hall Of Fame for general athletic freaks, Bo Jackson would be my first choice to be elected in. I agree he just didn't accomplish enough to make it in the NFL HOF. Incredible shining star for a brief moment, still haven't seen an athlete of that caliber enter the NFL since Bo was injured in '90 playoffs.
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Re: 2018 Packers Training Camp Master Thread
Agreed, but then I never really got the chance to see Jim Brown and Ernie Davis play.
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Re: Jerry Kramer
I get the bias against Kramer; too many Packers, the attitude (publicity hound) etc., but I have never understood it- Kramer was a linchpin in that great GB O-line that paved the way for five titles. The idea that Gillingham might have been even better is hogwash. No one will ever know. Gilly's career was cut short by the moron who tried to turn him into a DT but he was a awesome G as well. I have never heard any one say Steve Young shouldn't be in the Hall of Fame because Joe Montana was...
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Re: Jerry Kramer
He's in. "Attaboy, Jerry" http://www.wbay.com/content/ne...-Fame-472534413.html
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Re: Jerry Kramer
and that is unbelievable.....11 Times??? That really stinks, he BETTER GET IN.
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Re: Jerry Kramer
Kramer was an OL. He'd probably swear just like your avatar. Unless you were making a reference to Kyler F@ckrell, who is highly unlikely ever to show up on a Hall of Fame ballot.
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Re: Jerry Kramer
Jerry Kramer. The "Phil Rizzuto" of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Lets hope his speech is as classic as Phil's was! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ts956bR8Zs
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Re: Jerry Kramer
The asperand was a necessary concession to the ****ing asterik insertions. Never considered using it for a drive-by Fackrell bashing.
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Re: Jerry Kramer
Inside look at 64's day, last Saturday. https://www.si.com/nfl/2018/02...ramer-2018-hall-fame
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Re: Jerry Kramer
Will the Hall Of Fame ceremony be aired live? If so, where? Is Packers.com, or anyone, going to post the ceremony online?
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Re: Jerry Kramer
If it weren't for the efforts of this woman, Jerry might not have made it to the HOF this year: https://youtu.be/58ZVlnesaZI Green Bay Packers Mobile: Alicia Kramer presents Jerry Kramer at the 2018 Hall of Fame https://nfl-mcp-download.stora.../variant/246224.m3u8
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Re: Bert's Induction Speech
No to move away from the subject, but I saw the list of presenters and I saw that Dick Stanfil had been inducted into the Hall of Fame. I forgot about him getting the veterans nod, he was a great football player for the Bears and an unbelievable O-line coach. So back on point it's too bad Bert didn't ask the 40 million fans that saw him choke away the 07 NFC Championship game to tweet in his introduction
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Re: Bert's Induction Speech
Speaking of the Hall of Fame, Chad Clifton is having a good week. First he is inducted into the Packers Hall of Fame and then this:
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Re: Bert's Induction Speech
From the linked article: However, before Packers fan spew venom toward Favre like some did when he played for the rival Vikings, it appears he had nothing to do with it. "The Hall's curatorial staff selects the artifacts for exhibit," Pete Fierle, vice president of communications for the Hall of Fame, told ESPN.com. According to the Hall of Fame, the Packers jersey is the one Favre wore when he broke the NFL career touchdown pass record. The Vikings jersey is the one he wore when he broke...
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Re: Bert's Induction Speech
Brandt articles on Brint... http://mmqb.si.com/mmqb/2016/0...ackers-nfl-hall-fame
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Re: Bert's Induction Speech
Brandt has commented in the past that he might write a book one day about his time in GB, and specifically the Favre stories, some of what he shares in this article. This part stood out to me. It wasn't Thompson the GM, but his coach, who told him they moved on. After reading the bit about Irv's death, and specifically Brandt's perspective of that day and the funeral, which I hadn't read before, I believe Brett would have handled his end with GB differently if his dad/coach were alive in 2008.
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Re: Bert's Induction Speech
I really hated reading this excerpt. Makes it really hard to truly hate the guy like I want to: Spirit in Oakland Leaving frigid Green Bay in December, it was a welcome road trip to play the Raiders late in the 2003 season, and we took an extra day in the Bay Area. I was sitting in our iconic hotel, the Claremont, watching Sunday afternoon football when Bus called. He usually started every call with a joke (mostly dirty ones) but this time he was very different. “We gotta find Brett,” Bus...
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Re: Bert's Induction Speech
Donald Driver's tribute to Favre: http://www.theplayerstribune.c...-of-fame-retirement/
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Re: 2016 (Team 96) WK02 GB@MIN Gameday Thread
How did the Vikings make it look that easy with an average QB in his first game and no run game to speak of, yet we cant do anything with our hall of fame QB? Why do we make it look so hard on offense?
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Re: 2016 (Team 96) WK02 GB@MIN Gameday Thread
Yes, he did win a ring. One. half as many as Big Ben and Eli with a hall of fame QB. So in the last 23 years we have as many rings as Big Ben and half as many as Brady. Happy with that?
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Re: The world is eff'd up!
Seems there's always been the occasional wack a doo teenager. We had a couple in a very small school. One was rumored to have played russian roulette at a party and then was whispering to his friends that he was going to bomb our graduation. So there were several under cover guys at our very sleepy small town's HS graduation ceremony. Back then you always chalked it up to somebody with a big mouth and lots of hot air because nothing really ever came of it. But now, it seems since the first...