Dome over Lambeau?

[Heyjoe4]

I think Davis had a migraine the 1st half and it miraculously went away for the 2nd half when he did the damage. Also, there was some personal problem with Eugene Robinson before the game. Not keeping a back to block the blitz really hurt

I think you're right about Davis having a migraine during the game. Damn that makes his performance even more impressive.

That loss really hurt. The year before, there was some question about whether or not the Packers could beat the Pats. Not much, but there was some doubt.

But the Bronco game was different. I'm a sample of one, but I was most likely thinking that the Packers would win inn a walk. That made the loss even more hard to accept.

Not the most painful Packer loss I recall. That glory goes to the 2014 NFCCG collapse to the Hags.

 

[milani]

I can't disagree. The best spin I can put on it is that it cost the Packers the last shred of hope they might have had to win the game. Denver came to play for the championship; Green Bay came expecting to celebrate another championship.



Davis was a force of nature; if I recall correctly, it was 157 yards and 3 TDs, and the MVP. Denver's game plan was to pound the rock down Green Bay's throat snap after snap after snap, and that depended on Davis carrying the team. And he did it. Elway did what he had to do, too, but Davis drove that train.

Rumors were rampant after the game that Favre had been partying up a storm the night before, with Chewy and Winters, which he later denied... but there were some rumblings from teammates after the game that maybe he'd have played better if he hadn't been so busy vomiting in the locker room before the game.

Considering how many spectacular games he played in his career when he was probably hungover as hell, I'm not sure that Saturday night in the Onyx Room or the Cheetah Gentleman's Club had much to with what happened Sunday night in Qualcom Stadium. I think the more likely explanation is simply (as either Holmgren or Wolf said, depending on which source you believe) "they just wanted it more than we did."

About as good an explanation as you can ask for to explain a decisive 11-point upset.

Favre threw a senseless pick with the game tied 7-7 which opened the door. Then he fumbled when he should have seen the blitz and tucked it under. One of the reasons we appreciated Rodgers for so many years for not turning it over. Although we also railed him for being too protective later on in his career. Our chance to take control of the game was early in the 3rd quarter when Terrell Davis fumbled deep in Bronco territory. Our 96-97 teams scored TDs nearly always when we were at the doorstep. We had to settle for 3 and it gave Denver the impetus to knock our block off.