More Excited for SB XLV or SB XXI?

I'm the same age as the Super Bowl so I say SB XXXI cuz it was a great season, Packers got thru (some) injuries and made it back after 29 year drought. Favre MVP, Reggie, awesome!
As I've gotten older I don't get as excited or upset over Packer wins and losses. But AZ loss last year hit me hard. I'm excited about SB XLV but I'll be more excited if when Packers win.

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Which Super Bowl were you more excited about?

"The next one"

That response comes from Lombardi's equipment guy when he was asked which Championship was his favorite

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I'm the same age as the Super Bowl so I say SB XXXI cuz it was a great season, Packers got thru (some) injuries and made it back after 29 year drought. Favre MVP, Reggie, awesome!
As I've gotten older I don't get as excited or upset over Packer wins and losses. But AZ loss last year hit me hard. I'm excited about SB XLV but I'll be more excited if when Packers win.

I'll second all of that - and I'm the same age as the SB too. The return after the drought made it monumental.

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Originally posted by GreenBayLA:
I'm the same age as the Super Bowl so I say SB XXXI cuz it was a great season, Packers got thru (some) injuries and made it back after 29 year drought. Favre MVP, Reggie, awesome!
As I've gotten older I don't get as excited or upset over Packer wins and losses. But AZ loss last year hit me hard. I'm excited about SB XLV but I'll be more excited if when Packers win.

Not even the AZ game. I am a little jaded. If the Packers lose next week life will go on. Super Bowl XXXI was like a fantasy. It was unbelievable. I follow a lot of different sports and this is the first time one of the teams I support won the championship in my life time.

Conversely, Super Bowl XXXII was a nightmare. XLV will be neither a special dream nor a nightmare. It will be awesome, regardless.

Part of the problem? I think TT is going to build other champions. I am that big of a believer in him.

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As I've gotten older I don't get as excited or upset over Packer wins and losses

Same here... I was teenager for the 96 SuperBowl.. I felt like I had won it...LOL

I'll answer as soon as I figure out what those %^(!#& Roman Numerals stand for.

31

I am 52. I started watching the Pack in 67 at 9. Not all the games, but most of them. It was following that year that I was HOOKED.

So...what happens? They don't sniff a championship for close to 30 years.

So, 31.

I was pretty DAMN excited for XXXI (I was 21 and partied hard for that game), but I was 129038721098302198302180213773428097098432 times more excited for last weeks game (NFCCG against the Bores). I am excited for the SB, I really am, and as the the game gets closer will be more GEEKED UP, but I am positve it won't eclipse the excitement and anxiousness that I had for the NFCCG.

Don't get me wrong I am excited for XLV but after being through the 70's and 80's as a Packer fan XXXI was just unbelieveable.

I chose this one. I was 22 for SB XXXI, and was very pumped, but a bit too immature to really savor the flavor- also kind of felt like the whole year was building towards it, and I expected it to happen. SB XXXII was cool, but felt like old hat in a way, thought we might start getting to the SB more often than not. SB XLV just didn't seem likely to happen after all of the injuries, then the back to back losses to Det. and NE. I now fully realize and appreciate just how hard it is to make the SB, and that one must never take this for granted, because it could be another 13 or 29 years before we see another, and I may not necessarily be around to see it. I do believe we will get to at least one more under TT, if not more, but you really never know what is going to happen next!

Tough choices. I had to vote for XVI. There was just so much to overcome; the lean years through the 70's and 80's, rebuilding the team for the umpteenth time, and the build-up from the previous couple of years.
The very best thing was my Dad getting to see them become World Champions again!

Timmy!, is your dad a Niners fan?

XXXI you just knew they were going to win it. It felt like destiny all year long to me.

This was a pleasent surprise. and I had way more nerves last week then I expect to have for the SB.

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Originally posted by tsr86free:
Timmy!, is your dad a Niners fan?

Allow me to use BK's post above referencing Roman numerals, please.

Super Bowl XXXI I knew they'd win, Super Bowl XXXII I was a bit nervious about. This one I'm nont sure, I think we can blow 'em out but sometimes this team has had some unexplained lapses such as the Bennett score against Chicago. Hopefully they'll be so focused that this will be the defining game for the season.

I remember being WAY more excited that the Packers got to the Super Bowl for XXXI. It was like a dream, and win or not, it was exciting just to get there. This year, while I'm very excited they're in it, I feel it will still be a big disappointment if they lose the game.

Hard to say. XXXI was when we took the final step as Holmgren would say. The years leading up and losses to Dallas were hard to take but I thought most of the season before XXXI that we had a great shot to get to the Super Bowl. This past season, after all the injuries, has been more of a surprise. I can't choose right now.

The Packers played in XXI?

XXXI.

I agree with Blair and hereby formally move the Committee to use regular friggen numbers, hey.

I'm bad enough with math as it is without having to translate Latin.

Plus the Romans haven't even been in a championship game let alone a Super Bowl, so screw them. All they knew was naked discus.

+1 on using real numbers. I keep having to scroll to the top to read poll description just to know which SB is which....and by the time I scroll back down, I'm lost again.

Like others, the XXXI season just felt like destiny and I had no doubt they would win.

I was also convinced that they would win XXXII, and I was devastated when they lost...so much so that it made me question why I would put so much energy into something I have no control over.

XLV is the most exciting for me though, partly because of how they overcame the injuries, but mostly because I'm incredibly happy for TT, MM, and Rodgers. I don't remember Wolf, Holmy and TOG taking nearly as much grief during their run compared to the current team. It's been a long three plus years for this group though; Replacing a not-so-gracious legend, a split fanbase, and TT's somewhat unique way of building a team.

Now they've made the big dance. I couldn't be happier to be a Packers fan right now.

Threadkiller!

Have loved all of them, and am lucky enough to be alive for all of them! (making an assumption on the upcoming one, of course) Most excited for this one. The first two were great, but not accompanied by the hoopla of today -- and I was too young to appreciate them. In XXXI it was exciting, but we expected to be there after being so close for the previous years. Ditto XXXII. The loss was more surprising than us being there.

XLV is most exciting because it's so unexpected. Guys heading to IR one after the other, the losses to the Phins and Skins, the penalty parade that was the Bears loss, the close loss to the Birds and Pats, and then realizing we had to win five games in a row to even get where we are now. Added up, it was so daunting. I mean, that's a hell of a lot to wade through and overcome.

That make these two weeks all the sweeter!

I was definitely more excited about XXXI...for the reasons stated above (long drought, special team, etc.). I also think that this year's run was such a shock (all the injuries, barely making the playoffs, 3 road games) that there is a very special feeling to this trip. Not an excitement....more of a wonderment (which would be a great name for a kind of gum)

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Originally posted by The Heckler:
Don't get me wrong I am excited for XLV but after being through the 70's and 80's as a Packer fan XXXI was just unbelieveable.

Yep....I became a Packer fan when they totally sucked. Too young to know anything about the Glory Days.

31 was a defining moment. Watched it with family and right along side of me was my 5 month old son in his double zero Packer jersey.


This is great and would love a W. But 31 was special.

this time of year they always do the NFL films review of that season and that superbowl.

Love 'em

31

You could just tell as the season played out that Green Bay would not be stopped. We rolled thru the season. I was more thirsty for a SB after such a long drought.

This year we didn't even win our division, and there was a time when we didn't even look like a playoff team. We got hot at the right time.

I was able to watch more games during the 96 season, so there was more build up that added to the excitement.

I'm excited about this one, but I'm like Heckler in regards to growing up in the lean years and XXXI was great. My Mom, a diehard Packer fan, had just passed away in October of '96 and I just knew that she was controlling the Packers destiny that year. Adding to that season, I was able to come home for the NFC Championship vs the Panthers on the road to the SB.

Agreed Hauser, I had a younger Packer fan explain to me a few days ago, that how happy he was to see the Packers in the Superbowl after 13 lean years. lol! XXXI was special. Especially those Packer fans who sat and watched them every weekend for 21 seasons without a playoff game

I don't think some of our fellow Packer fans fully understand exactly how blessed we have been from '92 to present to enjoy the amount success we've had with our Packers.

I was a kid for the first couple--old enough to enjoy, but not to really appreciate the whole process and playoffs and such.

I chose XXXI, I think because I had more time to work my excitement up into a lather for XXXI (I love Roman numerals, BTW! Even when I was a kid I thought they were cool.) All that season everyone could all but taste it...everyone had Packer flags on their cars all season, there were pep rallies for every playoff game, there were Packer songs on the radio all the time, you could feel it coming, and after the long drought you were just praying it kept coming and didn't get derailed.

This one was different--it seemed like it was destined to be an 'almost' year, a "we played darn good for all the injuries and such--maybe next year" year--then suddenly they managed to replace players, with backups out of the woodwork who were shockingly good, pull in a last minute running game, win a must-win road game, and another, and another and whoa! We're going to the WHAT?!! Yee-hah!!

XLV was more of a shocking surprise kind of excitement--like Publisher's Clearing House showing up at your door out of the blue with a big cardboard check for $10,000.

XXXI was more like spending a year savoring pulling together a planned long-dreamed-of $10,000 tropical vacation; spending the year looking at websites about the hotel room, photos of the cruise ship's cabin and restaurants, buying clothes and new swimsuits for the trip, researching restaurants to visit, that sort of thing--building to a crescendo when the day actually arrives and wow, yes it really happens, and isn't cancelled by Katrina or something.

Both a lot of fun, both exciting, but in different ways.

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Originally posted by Satori:

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Which Super Bowl were you more excited about?

"The next one"

That response comes from Lombardi's equipment guy when he was asked which Championship was his favorite

I'm 54, so I remember them all. This one is the greatest!

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bdplant:
+1 on using real numbers...

Like others, the XXXI season

OK, this made me laugh!

Oh, and on another topic, yes, your avatar looks just like Chris Farley (amazing).

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Originally posted by The Heckler:
Don't get me wrong I am excited for XLV but after being through the 70's and 80's as a Packer fan XXXI was just unbelieveable.

Exactly. This year has been wonderful, but for me 1996 can never be topped. There's a whole generation of fans who have no idea what it's like to live on crumbs for 25 years. Even after they started winning with Holmgren, I seriously doubted that they'd ever reach another Super Bowl in my lifetime. Actually watching them win it instead of just hearing about the glory days was about as good as it gets. After SB 31, they could've gone 0-16 for 10 straight years for all I cared, because we had that trophy.

31 was more special because of the culmination of a lifetime of watching them lose. Plus Reggie was about as inspirational a player to watch as there has ever been.

I am excited that my favorite team is playing the last game of the year. I will be pumped but won't be devasted if they lose. To get there and have the opportunity is special. Thirty teams have gone home. My favorite one is playing for all the marbles. Win or lose, at least they are playing.