More than a full day after the clock ticked to zero in Dallas, I still feel a lingering euphoria from the game. And my thoughts about the game and the Packers are buzzing in a dozen directions. Do you find yourself thinking about these things, too…?
The Packers went to Super Bowl I, won it, and then returned the following year to play in Super Bowl II.
The Packers went to Super Bowl XXXI, won it, and then returned the following year to play in Super Bowl XXXII.
The Packers went to Super Bowl XLV, won it, and…
Can there possibly be a team in the NFL with shorter odds for making it to Indy next year? We’re the second youngest team, and we managed to win it all this year -- plus, if anything, we promise to field a better team next year than we did this past Sunday!
How far into Brett’s career was it that they named a street in Green Bay “Favre Pass” for him? How far into Holmgren’s tenure was it that they named a stretch of road “Holmgren Way” for him?
And how long will it be before they are putting up new signs in the neighborhood around Lambeau Field with “Rodgers” or “McCarthy” on them?
Have you seen or heard any of the plethora of Aaron Rodgers interviews since Sunday night? Boy, he’s a good guy, and altogether likeable!
I suspect that, apart from the folks who were already fans of the Packers going into the season, a lot of other folks were pulling for Green Bay during Sunday’s game. And now, the more Aaron and the rest of this classy squad becomes familiar to the folks outside of Wisconsin, the more I think fans all around the country will love, follow, and cheer for the Packers.
What does it mean that we played the second half of the Super Bowl without Charles Woodson and Donald Driver? Here are the two great veterans of the team -- the guys for whom everyone especially wanted to win the ring. Is it a sad twist of fate that those two couldn’t finish the game? Is it a sweet ‘team thing’ that the rest of the guys went out in the second half to win it for their teammates? Or is it a symbol of the future? A symbol that this team can go out and get it done after these two retire? Or a symbol that this team cannot do it without them, inasmuch as the Steelers outscored the Packers 15-10 in the second half?
Are Terrible Towels absorbent enough for drying tears and blowing noses?
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