Is there any music you like where the bands, singers or composers are broken up or dead?
What you are suggesting is like saying, "I would really listen to Mozart if he was still alive." Or, "Dammit! I wish I could listen to Led Zeppelin but they aren't together anymore!"
You can always like someone or what they did even if you never experienced them.
You can like whichever Packers players you want to.
I'm just surprised there isn't more love for Starr on here.
It's hard to explain I guess.
I can still listen to Mozart or Led Zeppelin and get the same result. In my mind music is something meant to be enjoyed many many times after it's creation and the feeling it gives you should not really change even years later. Its not the same with watching a sporting event. I think sporting events are best experienced at the moment of creation. That's not to say you can't go back and enjoy games that happened in the past but I would much rather watch a replay of SB 31 than 1 or 2 because I saw it and I know those players in the sense that I saw them do what they did and I watched them develop over their careers. Its KIND OF like I know them personally rather than by reputation.
I think that you are naturally going to get more people choosing players that they grew up watching because they formed the memories that you recall when asked to name your favorites. I have no memories of the Glory Years (I just missed them) so everything I know about them is second hand. I think it is natural for people to gravitate towards players that they have more personal memories of. Plus as we get older we tend to push older events further back
I love Bart Starr. He is the reason I became a Packer fan. Not for anything he did as a player rather he was the first person to make me aware of the Packers. The Dolphins were my first favorite team as they won the first NFL game I ever watched (SB 7) and probably the second NFL game I ever watched (SB8) I was 7 years old and my dad was not a fan so I was not exposed to football at any younger age and had no allegiances. When Bart Starr was hired a Packers coach in 1974 it was kind of a big deal and I was old enough to realize what was going on and started learning more about this NFL team from my home state called the Green Bay Packers and I quickly became a fan. If not for the Packers hiring Bart Starr who knows how long it would have taken me to convert, especially given the sorry state of the team for the next decade and a half. An interesting side story from that era because my first favorite team was the Dolphins after they beat the Redskins it stood to reason that the team playing them in the next game I saw was my least favorite team. For that reason I can say that I have hated the vikings for longer than I have loved the Packers.
Anyway, Bart Starr is probably my favorite Packer personality. Again not as a player but for bringing me into the fold so to speak and for just being the man he is. I don't know that anyone has ever had anything bad to say about him. He is probably one of two sports figures that I would actually pay money to meet. The other may help explain my situation a bit more. If you asked me who my favorite Milwaukee Brewer/Braves player was it would be different than my favorite Milwaukee Brewer personality. I don't know who my favorite player would be but my favorite Brewer personality would be Bob Uecker hands down.
No knock on who is your favorite player I'm just explaining why he isn't mine.
