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Fucking Ray Nitschke, why have you forsaken us?  I wore one of the most uncomfortable kid football jerseys made when I was 7 because, hello?  It was a Ray Nitschke jersey.

As I’d mentioned yesterday, I wore my adult-sized Nitschke jersey to watch the Cardinal wildcard playoff game.  Had it on all day.  And again, the Packers lost.  The Packers are 0-6 when I pay homage to big Ray on game day.  I don’t think I’m ever gonna wear that jersey again.

Every time I think about how the Packer defense gave up 40 points yesterday I start to feel the bile rising up my throat, so I’m not gonna talk about it much now.

Some positives:

• Rodgers and the offense didn’t lose faith when they were down by 24.
• Rodgers seems to like the challenge of being down, being nearly beaten, but being given the chance to come back.  He was cool as a zucchini yesterday throughout.  And I don’t mean to go all Lou from Major League again this week, but the team doesn’t get to this spot without Rodgers.  That he coughed up the game-winner is still crushing my chest like a heart-attack, but he’s been a damn exciting quarterback to watch this season.
• We have some really good wide receivers.  The Jennings TD catch from the live angle looked like magic.  Like the ball was 13′ away from his body and there was no way to catch it, and then you saw it disappear as it passed in front of his body, but never reappeared on the other side of his body.  Like Jennings was an electromagnet and the ball a little hunk of iron.
• We have an outstanding defense.  I’d love to know where they went yesterday.  The #1 ranked defense in yards allowed should NOT be giving up record amounts of yards in the playoffs.

Some negatives:

• Woodson had an average game yesterday, even with the forced fumble.  We needed more.
• Clay Matthews was merely human yesterday, too.  A good human.  Better than average human.  But human.
• AJ Hawk is too compact a package to have as much muscle tissue as he has.  He can’t seem to do a damn thing on the field but look like a stiff wad of Play-D’oh.
• We missed Al Harris.
• We need a good running back.
• This is getting boring, even to write.

I’ll write more in the coming week or two about what the Packers need to do to improve from next year, but it’s the same shit everyone’s known about for the last 2 years.  So don’t expect many revelations.  But you CAN expect more posts about cheerleaders.  Women always have a way of making it all better, don’t they?

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I had a friend was a big baseball player
back in high school
He could throw that speedball by you
Make you look like a fool boy
Saw him the other night at this roadside bar
I was walking in, he was walking out
We went back inside sat down had a few drinks
but all he kept talking about was

Glory days.

I guess I just don’t get the Philadelphia Eagles anymore.  Or maybe it’s their fans I don’t get.  I remember a time when they had it.  Whatever IT is.  They were big and strong and moderately charismatic, and if they were in high school, they’d probably be getting all the girls.  They’d direct the power of their Friday night lights toward the girl and she’d simply find it irresistible.

Yeah, just sitting back trying to recapture
a little of the glory of, well time slips away
and leaves you with nothing mister but
boring stories of glory days

But the Eagles aren’t in high school anymore.  The Dallas Cowboys, a team that hasn’t won a playoff game since forever, showed us that last night, beating them 34-14.  If we’re playing out the Springsteen analogy, the Eagles are that fat, middle-aged balding former high school athlete who used to have the town on a string, but now has some union job in the same town where he grew up.  Never got bigger.  Never got better.  Still trying to leverage whatever he had decades ago.

But the 90’s and early 00’s are over and their successes have passed the Eagles by.  Whatever strength and stealth and drawing power that anDy Reid and Donovan McNabb had is no longer there.  Or if it IS still there, it’s a dim candle only kept lit by people of the Philly suburbs who enjoy living in the past.

It’s time to let Reid and McNabb go.

This afternoon, attention should rightfully turn west.  To Green Bay and Arizona.  To the team in green and gold that a few are even calling the dark horse to win it all.  The glitz and the glam.  The Big Dance.   A team that could “win the whole, goddamn thing.”  - Jake Taylor, pretend Cleveland Indians catcher

And all the focus should rightly turn there.  Green Bay is young.  Strong. Fast.  Lean.  Smart.  And if we’re talking analogies, they’re the Stallion to the Eagles’ broken-down old pony.

And they’re about to get filthy on another team of birds this afternoon.

Bring on the lights.  Bring on the girls.  The Packers are the studs ready for all the attention.

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Arizona Cardinal head coach Ken Whisenhunt is trying to manufacture bulletin board material.   In the inner circles of Cardinal football there’s talk that Whisenhunt was upset that McCarthy and the Packers left their starters in for the majority of their regular season finale matchup.  One source close to the coach is quoted as saying “Yeah, coach was really pissed.  He said McCarthy was really poopy.  That he was a big meanie leaving in the first stringers, and the only reason he did it was to hurt our feelings.  He’s so mad he’s considering  not sending McCarthy that package of pink himalayan bath salts he bought for him at Trader Joe’s after their last meeting.”

Seriously? He’s mad the Packers left in their starters for most of the game?

If that’s true, Coach Ken needs to first throw away the pink salt.  Or give it to me so I can use to melt all the friggin’ snow I had to shovel off my sidewalk today.  And then he needs to grow a pair.

Over in Titletown we’re handling things a little differently.  Where normally ads go in the papers and throughout the local media that snow shovelers are needed for the Lambeau Field stands for upcoming home games, the ads this week are for fluffers.  You know, the bitches that keep the guys hard and ready for action.

After bending the girls from Arizona over during the preseason and then again last week, coach McCarthy is worried about his team going soft before the weekend’s wildcard playoff game. He wants to make sure they stay rough and ready.

Having had balls rammed down their throats (and everywhere else, frankly) last week, Arizona is predictably loose coming into the playoffs.  They’re hoping that age-old teabagging remedy will help them feel better going into next week, and it might work.  Feels awesome to me, anyway.  But Cardinal mindset notwithstanding, Coach McCarthy plans to just keep on a pushin’ it, keeping the Packer defense stout and stiff and the offense going deep every chance they get.

While some think that Arizona was just lying down for the Packers last week and will at least scratch and claw a little harder this weekend, I think the Cardinals have no idea the Packer load that’s coming their way, and it’s totally gonna blow up in their faces.

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