This date in Packers history

Was she wearing Army boots? 

Hallelujah! Someone else who says "bubbler"! Up here in the Twin Cities they look at me like I'm nuts (sometimes I do deserve it) when I ask, "Where's the bubbler?" It's not "drinking fountain" people, it's a bubbler! A fountain has a statue and pigeon poop in it and I'm not drinking out of it!   

 

My rant's over. What's this thread about again?  

1921, their 1st official season in the new league.

The Packers pulled off a major coup when they signed lineman Howard “Cub” Buck, a veteran of the famous Canton Bulldogs. They won their inaugural league game against the Minneapolis Marines on Oct. 23, 1921. They were able to book games with the formidable Chicago Staleys (Bears) and Chicago Cardinals. And they finished with a winning record, 3-2-1.

 

 

Good morning BK! This is a little disappointing.  MOM jokes? That's so amateur! I would think a guy so funny would set the bar a little higher. Oh well, even the best have an off day.

See, that's what I mean. The joke doesn't work because I don't have a sister. Homework, my friend. Gotta to your homework. But don't get down on yourself. You are WAY TOO FUNNY to settle for yo momma jokes and sister insults. That's just kind of...well...lazy. Have a good day BK. YOU CAN DO BETTER!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbyAZQ45uww

 

Fountain: a piece of architecture which pours water into a basin or jets it into the air to supply drinking water and/or for a decorative or dramatic effect.

It only "bubbles" if you fart in the pipes.

25 years ago today, Nov. 5, 1989. After further review, Don Majkowski's 14-yard TD pass to Sterling Sharpe stood up, and the Packers beat the Bears 14-13 at Lambeau Field. The play came with 41 seconds left in the 4th quarter. Majik had been called for being over the line of scrimmage on the throw, but the call was reversed after they checked the instant replay.

 

 

 

 

 

Very appropriate for Bears Week II!

Lambeau Field Pre History

East-West tensions in Green Bay grew with high school football rivalry.

Those of you not from Green Bay or too young to remember might be interested in knowing that the high school rivalry
between East and West that fueled the city’s interest in football was no ordinary rivalry.
It was brewed by hate more than love of the game, or so it seemed.

In fact, as things turned out, the most contentious battle over the construction of what is now Lambeau Field wasn’t
over the cost or use of taxpayer money, but rather over its location.
Which side of the Fox River was it going to be built on? East or West?
But more on that political faceoff later.

The seed for the rivalry was planted in the 19th century.
What is now Green Bay was once two cities: Green Bay on the east side of the Fox and Fort Howard on the west.
It wasn’t until 1895, after two previous referendums had failed and years of what local historian Jack Rudolph once
described as a “bitter and often openly hostile” relationship, did the people of the two cities agree to consolidate.

East and West high schools were both fielding football teams within a few years of the vote, but the ill will
persisted and they couldn’t even reach an agreement to play each other until 1905.

Once they did, East vs. West quickly became the biggest game in town.
Their third encounter, played in 1908, was marred by fights between fans on the field while the game was in progress.
By 1916, Curly Lambeau’s senior season at East, the game drew 5,000 fans, the biggest football crowd in Green Bay’s history.
The next year, the Green Bay militia patrolled the sidelines during the game with fixed bayonets.

In 1925, the first year of old City Stadium, the Packers-Chicago Bears game drew 5,389 fans; and East-West, 7,000.
The 1927 East-West game drew a crowd of 10,000, almost double the 5,500 who attended the Packers-Bears game in Green Bay.

By the 1940s, the rivalry stoked such bitter feelings there would be freewheeling brawls on the bridges crossing the Fox
River before and after games.

On the eve of the 1942 game, students blocked streets, started fights, and looted and destroyed property.
It took nearly three hours and gallons of water blasted from a fire truck to disperse the crowd.

The 1954 game ignited yet another free-for-all where students rocked cars, stoned windows and set fires in the downtown area.

The off-the-field turf battles were also becoming an annual event.
But not all civic leaders were overly concerned. One called them more of a police problem and argued against overreacting.
No, they were nothing more than East vs. West – a rift deeper and wider than the Fox River, but part of everyday life in Green Bay.

“The East and West personally hated one another,” the late Ken Kaye, who watched the Packers from their inception and lived in the
eye of the East-West storm for most of his life, said almost a decade ago when he was in his 90s. “Businessmen would almost have duels.
It drifted right down to the basis of every home. It was really vicious.”

The 1952 East-West game drew a crowd of 14,047, a bigger gate than two of the Packers games played in Milwaukee that year.

It was with that backdrop that the push to build a new stadium in Green Bay took hold in the early 1950s.
It was finally dawning on people that if Green Bay didn’t replace nearly all-wooden and rotting old City Stadium, it might lose its team.

But where to build it?
In 1954, the Packers sided with those who favored rebuilding and expanding City Stadium, located behind
East High School on Green Bay’s near east side.
Preliminary plans for a new steel stadium on that site were approved by Green Bay’s Board of Education a year later.
But Leonard Jahn, a West Side alderman, protested that the choice made little sense and led the fight against it.
He favored building the stadium at Perkins Park, off Military Avenue on Green Bay’s far northwest side, where there
would be better highway access, ample parking and room to expand.

In late 1955, Otto Rachals, then mayor of Green Bay, appointed a 16-member committee – eight East Siders, eight West Siders – to study the matter.
In February 1956, the City Council, by a 22-0 vote, approved putting a bond referendum to build a new stadium on the ballot for the April 3 election.
But the East-West dispute had yet to be decided.
The City Council feared its vote would be strictly along East-West lines and,in turn, the referendum would degenerate into a like battle if
it tried to settle on a site beforehand.

“If we take a vote on the location now, it could end in a tie and the stadium and the Packers would be lost,” said Alderman Wilner Burke, who also
happened to be head of the Packers’ Lumberjack Band.

With no mention of a site in the wording of the $960,000 referendum, it passed easily.
The “Yes” vote won with more than 62% and carried every ward.
But two weeks later, the City Council voted against spending money for a survey to pick a location.
In response, the Packers’ executive committee, perhaps sensing the East-West battle could drag on forever, announced it would pay an outside
engineering firm to conduct the study.

Three months later, after looking at 15 sites in all, Osborn Engineering Co. of Cleveland issued its report favoring one at Highland Avenue
(now Lombardi Avenue) and Ridge Road, an area of farmland on Green Bay’s far southwest side.

Six days later, the City Council approved the recommendation by a 17-7 vote.
Seven East Side aldermen refused to give up the fight.
But what was essentially a five-year battle over site selection was finally over.
Building the stadium was easy, or at least no more difficult than getting the referendum passed.

What was then called new City Stadium was completed in less than nine months and dedicated Sept. 29, 1957.

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What was then called new City Stadium was completed in less than nine months

Try to build a stadium in nine months nowadays. 

And for 960 G's...

 

Edit:  >>-GO-BUCKY->

It took 56 years to complete that stadium. So what are you people talking about?!?

Cool pic bvan

Packers won that one 27-0

 

http://www.pro-football-refere...res/193912100gnb.htm

 

4 different players completed passes for the Giants, but they also threw an Eli-like 6 INTs

GB had 2 different players make FGs that day

Ahh... I remember it well. 

 

Credit for the pic goes to Jeff Ash.

I owe the dude for the Packer email updates he sent out in the mid/late 90's.

Living in Asia had a lot of +'s, but weekly Packer news wasn't one of 'em.

He's still an interesting tweet... 

 

Ash's old eMail updates had a lot of followers.

Well this was Dec 9, 1984 but close enough. What a great time travel trip...  

 

Pack @ Da Bears

 

 

 

 

Epps = Cobb.

Cobb >>> Epps. 

 

Although if Randall had Phil's top end speed I'd like it.

@Packerpedia: OTD in 1936 the #Packers won their fourth of 13 championships. Don Hutson caught a 48-yd TD in the first 3 minutes, and GB never trailed.

12/24/1974 - Starr named coach

 

 

12/24/1983 - Gregg named coach

 

12/24/1995 - Steelers' Yancey Thigpen drops end-zone pass. NFC Central champs!

 

That Yancey drop was unbelieveable.

I thought that the Vikings/Packers game was at MinnyHaHa. 

 

Maybe it was another year we beat them there on Christmas Eve.....no, I'm too lazy to GOOGLE now.  

 

 

 

so was the "spot" the refs gave O'Donnell on that 4th down run.  It should've been game over at that point anyway.   God's way of telling the refs they blew it....that's the way I look at it.

 

On December 24th 1983 Forest Gregg became the Packer Head Coach. 

http://www.packers.com/history...am-and-a-legend.html

The 2004 Christmas Eve game against the Vikings was played in the Metrodump. Both Sherman and McCarthy had a lot of success in that building, which was pretty nice since the Pack always struggled so badly there with Holmgren.

Sorry, I did not see the earlier post.

OK.  That's what I thought, Pack-Man.   Thanks.

 

Hungry put up a picture of us in our home uni's...that's what threw me off.

 

The first one of these happened.

 

 

Reggie White died 10 years ago today.

@Packerpedia: On this date in 1967:
The Ice Bowl

 

The. Greatest. Sports. Moment. EVER!!!

 

...and you can hear it here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_0xuRb6f4s

 

The best one and a half minutes you'll hear today!

Saw on facebook today that Clay Matthews Sr passed away.  His wikipedia page also says he passed away yesterday.  No other confirmation to be found online (and neither source is sound.  Could be a fake rumor).  

 

 EDIT:  Posts about his passing have disappeared.  Still nothing anywhere else online.  Looking more and more like a stupid prank.  

@JeffAshPG: 53 years ago today, #Packers won 1st NFL title under Vince Lombardi, crushing #NYGiants 37-0 at new City Stadium.

 

@JeffAshPG: Big day for #Packers TE Ron Kramer in NFL title game 53 years ago today. Caught 2 TDs passes from Bart Starr.

 

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@JeffAshPG:  #NYGiants saw a lot of Paul Hornung in NFL title game 53 years ago today. 3 FGs, 4 XPs, 136 total yds for #Packers.

 

It's weird to see fans in regular clothes.   Now, everything is about the NFL Gear.  Except maybe NFL Deer Hunting Gear.  I think that's still orange.

 

Nice broadcast link. Mercer, the play-by-play guy for Dallas, was a class act. His understated, factual, "Starr's in. Touchdown" was a lesson in how a rival broadcaster should conduct himself/herself compared to today's broadcasters' histrionics. His "I think the scoreboard's frozen" was a classic deadpan!