It's Been 10 Years?
>> Friday
I feel so...old (but mostly because of the gray hair someone found on me yesterday at work).
Anyway, as our Bears fan counterparts gear up for their team's first Super Bowl appearance during their cognizant lifetimes, Nate and I are left with an 8-8 season and only fond memories of ten years ago today, when the Packers won Super Bowl XXXI 35-21.
Among the game's highlights was Desmond Howard's MVP performance, as he returned a kick for a touchdown that helped seal the Packers' first Super Bowl since the '67 season. The exact footage of the play can be seen here, courtesy of YouTube (also, for the record, Favre should have been the MVP, he got hosed).
Also, since I'm feeling particularly reminiscient about great Packers moments, here's a hilarious Tecmo Bowl recreation of one of the greatest things I've ever seen, Josh McCown's touchdown pass to Nate Poole to knock the Vikings out of the playoffs and get the Packers in at the end of the 2003 season. It's not quite on the level of the RBI Baseball remake of Game 6, but for Packers fans, it's pretty damn close.
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Believe it or not, I actually rooted for the Pack in that game...afterall McMahon was the punky qb trying to dethrone Brett from the bench ... I wonder what that team could have achieved???
Probably a 6-10 season ... anywho, look for the Packers to be around 9-7 next year (maybe 10-6 if some things go their way) as they are rebuilding very nicely (especially in that defense)
I remember that game if only because I was at my friend Paul's house (who believe it or not, was a bigger nerd than me in grade school.) We had slacked off on a social studies project and it was due the next day, and we were working on the history of Quebec.
We deemed the Quebec Nordiques becoming the Colorado Avalanche as an event just as significant in the city's history as the French and Indian War.
Ahhh, revisionist 7th grade history. I love it. Also, I'm pissed that those guys are way better than me at electric football. And that this blog post is the extent of the work I've accomplished in the 2.5 hours I've been at work today (I was a half hour late, because it's Friday).
YOU feel old? I have the big 2-7 next month! Let's not forget that I, unlike most of the bloggers here, was thinking about heading off to college when the packers beat the Patriots.
Incidentally, at the time, I was in boarding school in Massachusetts. The fever out there was unbelievable, and I, as a Jets fan, was very conflicted. I played the "Yay, I'm pulling for the local team, Patriots fan for one day" card so as not to be the target of sassing from the (mostly annoying) New Englaner classmates I had, but there was a piece of me that certainly took comfort in the Packers' drubbing of the Pats. Not quite enough comfort to make me forget the awful season the Jets had, but comfort nonetheless.
Haha, you old bastard. When I'm 27, I'll still be 22. That's how awesome I am.
Back in early '97, i was struttin' around my middle school in my new Drew Bledsoe jersey with the 3D numbers, so you know whom I was rooting for. Incidentally, I was struttin' around in that very same jersey during last year's Super Bowl.
For those who were not there, last year, the entire soon-to-be-YCS staff attended our Super Bowl party, where after consuming an entire Little Caesar's $5 pizza each, and copious amounts of processed chicken nuggets in the shape of dinosaurs, and large quantities of the cheapest beer we could find, we awoke the next morning with to find a hole bashed in our wall and several YCS staff members quite ill.
And pretty much all the beer gone.
Yea, that hole causing event happened way too close to me. Big props to Vinnie and Nate who still had it in them to make it with my drunk ass to the bar that night, especially with Nate passing out in Murphy's.
Of course, I didn't pass out before a couple of my at-the-time employees took advantage of my Jagermeister-filled self, and had me buying them everything from Gin & Tonics to packs of cigarettes.
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