It's Browns Week

@Harry Manback posted:

Oh you best believe the topic of Packers games and their sanctity came up before marriage.  Of course, at the time she said that was fine.  Just like she said she would be fine not having kids.  That's OK, I told her I'd be coming into a lot of money.  That way we were both disappointed.

JK.  Packers games are sacred 99% of the time - she kows it, her family knows it.  I'm a little more flexible because I get to have Sunday Ticket, therefore I can record a game and watch it later.  Of course knowing this, she pushes for more recordings sometimes, but I push back.  I get an angry look and she's annoyed, but it goes away.  This is one of the few times I'll give in.  It's only one game out of the season.

Quit being so well adjusted. 

Fucking show off.

from Tom Silverspoon

"It's assumed MVS is vaccinated since he's done interviews in the auditorium. So, under new protocols he either had symptoms and was tested or was one of the four random players tested. Symptoms matter. Could be back by Sat. if no symptoms. Would need to pass one test."

Well, that's good news. Pretty unlikely he plays this week but he should be fine to get ready for Minnesota.

@Henry posted:

Quit being so well adjusted.

Fucking show off.

We'll see how well adjusted I am come Saturday.  Of course, alcohol will play a part in that.  I only drink a little.  But when I do, I turn into a whole different person - and that person drinks a LOT.

I am so freaking sick this gawd damn virus……..😡 😡 😡

@Blair Kiel posted:

Did the topic of Packer games not come up before marriage? Mrs. Kiel calls the shots on most aspects of our lives, but Packer games are sacred non-negotiable events. We have scheduled vacations and other events around them...

@Harry Manback posted:

Oh you best believe the topic of Packers games and their sanctity came up before marriage.  Of course, at the time she said that was fine....

When Mrs. Timmy and I decided to get married, I let her handle the bulk of the planning. She was trying to choose a date, but the first three she picked were game days, and I immediately vetoed them.
I did relent and said getting married on gameday would be fine... but it would have to be early in the morning or later at night, depending on kickoff time, so everybody would be gone by then.
We did have an offer of a halftime wedding at the sports bar we attended, but she had some more traditional ideas... bless her heart.

@Dr._Bob posted:

Too many adventurers die in dungeons because they wanted to save their potions and special items.  If you have them, use them.

But don't call Dirk too early.  That would be hubristic.

Here's Larry with some cutups of GB offense that the Browns aren't going to enjoy prepping for this week. MLF having some fun with play action design and general obfuscation. The final pic of the Ravens ILB says it all...
MLF + AFR are just brutal on defenders

https://twitter.com/packers/st.../1473446939207286786

Go Packers

@Harry Manback posted:

Well, we're having my wife's family over for dinner on Christmas day, so I won't be joining you guys live for the game.  They're going to want to watch Christmas movies all day and expect me to be present, so I have to record the game and watch it Sunday.  Hopefully I can avoid looking at the score until then.

My guy....  You got to set the precedent early and always stay the course.   While on my honeymoon in Prague I got up in the middle of the night to go to the casino to watch the game.

16 to 19 Sunday’s a year I’m unavailable for 3 to 4 hours.  Other than that, I’ll do whatever the wife schedules.

@BrainDed posted:

....  You got to set the precedent early and always stay the course.   While on my honeymoon in Prague I got up in the middle of the night to go to the casino to watch the game.

On our Honeymoon in St. Moritz, Switzerland and this is the game I found listed on our hotel satellite (back in the stone ages of 1996)

https://www.pro-football-refer...res/199610060chi.htm

Packers annihilate the Bears; Beebe takes a kick- off to the house, Freeman caught a Hail Mary, Keith Jackson TD , multiple INTs for the defense.  Just a huge day for the Packers and my charming bride became a Packer fan for life

Clicked the YouTube video... immediately we're muffing a kickoff. I can't take it anymore that's enough internet for me tonight.

@Harrymanback Blanton's will be consumed if they win.  

I also have my in-laws coming over for the day, but they've been told (and understand) that the meal will be served either before or after the game.  I'm voting for before the game as I will be doing most of the cooking/prep.

I'm a little confused about the NFL policy to require a negative test before playing if you have already tested +.  I'm assuming this is just to prove that the initial test was a false +.  If that's the case, another test should be done right away.  If you truly test +, then subsequent tests may be + for months.

My wife hates me during football season. Doesn’t understand how I get so worked up and crazy over some thing I have no control over. She’s right.

I’m actually glad my wife is not a crazed football and Packers fan. She balances me out. If I had a wife who took this stuff as much to heart as I do we’d be fucked.

Packers are currently -7

@DocBenni posted:

@Harrymanback Blanton's will be consumed if they win.  

I also have my in-laws coming over for the day, but they've been told (and understand) that the meal will be served either before or after the game.  I'm voting for before the game as I will be doing most of the cooking/prep.

Do liquor stores near you carry Blanton's?  I haven't been able to find it for at least a year.  Like I've said previously, I can order it online for $250 a bottle, but there are other bourbons close enough in quality for $50 - $60.

I'm cooking too.  But see I might have fucked up when I got Sunday Ticket.  Wife knows I can record it and watch it later.  And on a day like we have planned for Christmas, it's hard to argue her logic.  Believe me, I'm working on it.

@Tavis Smiley posted:

My wife hates me during football season. Doesn’t understand how I get so worked up and crazy over some thing I have no control over. She’s right.

I’m actually glad my wife is not a crazed football and Packers fan. She balances me out. If I had a wife who took this stuff as much to heart as I do we’d be fucked.

Ha!  I used to be bad like that.  My wife even bought a foam cheese brick for me to throw at the TV.  She'd go upstairs, the dog would cower and go upstairs with her. 

All I want for Christmas...

h/t u/MichaelLoCocoWI pic.twitter.com/zz79kzVvoO

— r/GreenBayPackers on Reddit (@redditPackers) December 22, 2021

@Harry Manback posted:

Do liquor stores near you carry Blanton's?  I haven't been able to find it for at least a year.  Like I've said previously, I can order it online for $250 a bottle, but there are other bourbons close enough in quality for $50 - $60.

There are 16 bottles of Blanton's in all of Oregon, selling at $59.95. All of them are at liquor stores more than 5 hour drive from Portland.

Blanton's is nice, but paying >$75 for it is crazy, unless it's your favorite thing, in which case, godspeed man!

@H5 posted:

All I want for Christmas...

h/t u/MichaelLoCocoWI pic.twitter.com/zz79kzVvoO

— r/GreenBayPackers on Reddit (@redditPackers) December 22, 2021

I was at that game.  Long time Packer fan and shareholder.  Had never been to a game at Lambeau.  Attended Lots of Packer games in Philly, NJ, Buffalo, and Baltimore.  My kids got tickets for me (and them). What a marvelous weekend. Toured the stadium on Saturday, Titletown brewery, tailgating Sunday and then the blowout win. 🤗.

@Timpranillo posted:

There are 16 bottles of Blanton's in all of Oregon, selling at $59.95. All of them are at liquor stores more than 5 hour drive from Portland.

Blanton's is nice, but paying >$75 for it is crazy, unless it's your favorite thing, in which case, godspeed man!

Blanton's is tough to find.  I love all bourbons from the Buffalo Trace family... Eagle Rare and Buffalo Trace are nice.  Blanton's is obviously great but my favorite is Colonel E.H. Taylor.  Best bourbon I've ever had.

@mikespofford: QB Aaron Rodgers present at #Packers practice Wed. but not going thru drills.
WR EQ St. Brown, TE Dominique Dafney both practicing after missing last game.
CB Jaire Alexander continuing to practice.
Not practicing: T David Bakhtiari & Billy Turner, LB Ty Summers, WR Malik Taylor, DL Kenny Clark.

We REALLY need KC vs the Browns.   They love to pound the rock between the tackles.

#Packers coach Matt LaFleur said that they are giving LT David Bakhtiari the week off. Said he remains day to day otherwise. "We're unloading him for the week," he said. Wouldn't say whether he had a setback or why they haven't practiced him since last Thursday

@BrainDed posted:

We REALLY need KC vs the Browns.   They love to pound the rock between the tackles.

@TomSilverstein: #Packers coach Matt LaFleur said that NT Kenny Clark is eligible to play on Saturday. He said there are some protocols he must get through. Said he's hoping he gets through them in time to get back to the facility before Saturday.

MLF just said that if Clark "clears protocol" he can play Saturday, can't practice.

@BrainDed posted:

We REALLY need KC vs the Browns.   They love to pound the rock between the tackles.

One of their pounders will be unable to join the festivities on Saturday

"Coach Kevin Stefanski said Kareem Hunt (ankle) is not expected to play Week 16 against the Packers."

@packerboi posted:

Weird. Confidence level isn’t great that he returns this season.

@mattschneidman

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Matt LaFleur says Packers are "unloading" David Bakhtiari for the week. Doesn't clarify what that means. Has sidestepped two questions about his confidence level in Bakhtiari returning this season. "When he's back, he'll be back."

No sense putting any dates/milestones on his return. Let the speculators twist in the wind.

If you're a fan of watching body language, MLF has a few tells when he's dodging those Bakh questions.

Bill Huber has some awesome pics up on the Packers-Browns Title tilt from 1965

scroll down for all the pics

https://www.si.com/nfl/packers...26c3&pid=3856553

That was the game that made me a Packer fan ... my dad and older brother were Browns' fans & I just had to be the rebel (at age 6)

@FLPACKER posted:

That was the game that made me a Packer fan ... my dad and older brother were Browns' fans & I just had to be the rebel (at age 6)

mine was the ice bowl for teh same reasons. Dad and older brothers luved the Cowboys. I had to dig at them and chose the Packers and been a fan ever since. My dad never cursed but I remember that day I learned all kind of new words. I read Instant Replay by Jerry Kramer a few months later and was bonded forever. 

@ilcuqui posted:

@TomSilverstein:  Packers signed LB Peter Kalambayi to the practice squad. He played in 41 games for the #Texans from 2018-'20, and played roughly 70% of their special teams snaps. Definitely signed him for a purpose.

Hopefully, to coach special teams?

@Harry Manback posted:

I did that to my left achilles when I was 25.  I was playing raquetball, jumped up to hit a shot and then immediately jumped forward to hit another shot and I could swear the person I was playing kicked me in the back of my leg.  I crumpled to the floor, but when I looked back, the other guy was way at the back of the court.  I stood up, but couldn't push off on that leg.  I suspected, but I was hoping for the best.  Reached to the back of my ankle, and sure enough, it was just mush.  No achilles.  What a brutal injury.  Three months in a cast, and when the cast came off I looked in horror at my calf and about fell off the table in the Dr.'s office because I didn't have any calf muscle left.  It took a year to walk normally, and I never recovered my speed or ability to jump very high off that leg.

Of course these guys can hire the best when it comes to recovery/rehab, but I still feel for any athlete that this happens to.  It can end a career.

I read that and the comment by the writer above- now I am an old guy and sports medicine is light years ahead of where I am coming from but when i was a teenager a torn Achilles ruined the career of Dave Robinson one of the all time great LB's, and I suspect that it will probably do the same for McKinney!  It robbed Robinson of his explosive 1st step and lateral agility and I surmise the same will happen to Tak!

…he needs to consult Kevin Durant.

Just looking at the thread title wondering if the Browns deserve a whole week?

@Floridarob posted:

mine was the ice bowl for teh same reasons. Dad and older brothers luved the Cowboys. I had to dig at them and chose the Packers and been a fan ever since. My dad never cursed but I remember that day I learned all kind of new words. I read Instant Replay by Jerry Kramer a few months later and was bonded forever.

You lucky old bastards.  

I was taught to love the Pack during the Dickey years.  We lived in Waukesha but my old man went to GB for sales calls frequently.   He would take me along and drop me off at the practice fields.  They fucking sucked but they were my team.

Infante was my first first glimmer of hope.   In Infante we trust!!  

Same here.  But I actually found a lot of joy in some of those 80's offenses.  Even when the team would break your heart by the end of the season.  Lofton was why I played WR in HS and college.  I was almost done with them until that 89 season.  Just when you think you're out, they pull you right back in!

@lovepack posted:

Just looking at the thread title wondering if the Browns deserve a whole week?

Maybe a smaller font.

Browns Wee Week.