packers

i do agree that they're not as good as the 07 Pats. but I would say they compare well to the other three.

i think in general the rest of the field is probably weaker than it's been for the last few years. Pats have an even worse defense then they have the last few years, Saints don't play well away from home, Steelers look unconvincing, Ravens seem handicapped by Joe Flacco, etc. etc.

I'm from california but I shifted loyalty from the niners when it became clear they were a. not gonna draft aaron rodgers and b. were gonna move to the suburbs

― iatee, Friday, December 16, 2011 6:28 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Permalink

also I mean they are on some level the only defensible sports team in the country, so everyone should be a fan

― iatee, Friday, December 16, 2011 6:29 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Permalink

but they fucked over sf and also fucked over santa clara so I'm okay w/ even rooting against them at this point.

― iatee, Friday, December 16, 2011 7:20 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Permalink

I kinda hear you, but, as a Niner fan, I can't bring myself to support a team where Favre made his name.

Also, didn't the team and SC work out a plan so that if SC can't get a certain amount of funding, the team would step in cover the rest? (But yeah, I was pissed at the move, even though it puts them CLOSER to where I live.)

yeah the deal coulda been worse for SC as far as financing goes, but there still is some taxpayer money being spent along the way and in the long-run stadiums just aren't worth it for small towns. all this trouble so a buncha people to drive in 8 days a year? it's ultimately bizarre town-pride vanity thing. and iirc there are ways for the niners to get out of that guarantee w/ a future ownership or when they decide to move back to sf in 10 years when nobody wants to drive 50 miles to see a football game anymore. whereas hunter's point redevelopment coulda led to great things for the area, is on transit etc. etc.

TBF, there's transit to the SC location, but yeah, overall the deal's a stinker.

Oh wait there's something else I want to mention:

ya I'm primarily a cal fan so it is v. convenient that a cal player will go down as the best qb of all time

Tim Tebow has something to say about that.

lmao

lol is right, a team lost a game today, wau man Packers fans must be devastated by being only 13-1

it's sad it was a perfect perfect season.

cell phone records show 6 calls back and forth between an "M. Morris" and subject A. Rodgers on the evening of 12/17

Hoping this is just "sometimes you play crappy and a bunch of dudes are injured" and not "Hey everybody we solved the Packers!" It felt more like the former, at least.

and that's the way it goes

anyway - two bright sides to this loss: one, if the 49ers lose tomorrow, the Pack get the no. 1 seed, so they can start resting guys because they really won't be playing for anything

two is that I was kinda terrified of having this team be remembered like the 2007 Patriots. maybe it's different because public opinion isn't completely against them like it was on the Pats, but I would hate it if the 2011 Packers were known as the undefeated regular season team that blew their last game