Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="sschind" data-source="post: 584565" data-attributes="member: 10247">In a round about way I suppose you could say the Minnesota vikings made me a Packers fan.  When I was young no one in my family really watched football.  We were more of an outdoor sports (camping, hunting fishing etc) family.  The first football game I ever saw was the Dolphins/Redskins Super Bowl following the Dolphins perfect 1972 season.  Being a typical almost 8 years old at the time the obvious choice for my favorite football team was the Miami Dolphins.  Fast forward a year.  The next football game I remember seeing was the Dolphins/vikings Super Bowl.  Since the Dolphins were my favorite team it stood to reason that my least favorite team, or the team I hated the most was the Minnesota vikings.  That would have been in early 1974.  Over the next year or so I started learning more about he NFL and when a team called the Green Bay Packers hired a guy named Bart Starr as their coach it was a pretty big deal in my small west central Wisconsin home town. I became aware of and even more interested in the history of this team and when I finally fully realized that the Packers were not only from my home state but they also played in the same division as the team I hated most it was a very easy transition to make.  The Packers became my favorite team and have been ever since.  While I can't say that the Packers have always been my favorite team I can say that my most hated team has always been and always will be the vikings.  Growing up about 75 miles or so from Minnesota had instilled in me a hatred of the vikings that I never got with the Chicago Bears that so many Packers fans have.  I'm a history buff and to me the Packers and Bears are the history of the NFL.  Lambeau and Halas were the NFL (along with a few others thrown in of course) and because of this I have always had a great deal of respect for the Bears.  My favorite non Packer player of all time is Walter Payton.  (the 85 Bears and the SB shuffle did get kind of annoying though)  Its funny now that I live in SE Wisconsin about 10 miles from the Illinois border surrounded by as many, if not more, Bears fans as Packers fans my Bears fans friends can't stand the fact that I don't hate the Bears.  They all hate the Packers and when the Bears lose and the Packers win it drives them crazy.  If the Packers lose and the Bears win the loss bugs me but I'm happy for the Bears and they hate that because they can't rub it in.  To be honest I'll probably root for the Bears to win more often than not. Obviously at the start of the season I'll root against them just because of the divisional thing but now, I'll root for them to win out and not just because it will help the Packers, though that does have a lot to do with it.  I'll rarely root for the Lions and I will root for the vikings  only when it benefits the Packers.  My first favorite Packers players were Dave Roller and Steve Odom.</blockquote>

Verification

Members online

Total: 170 (members: 4, guests: 166)

Latest posts

R
Dome over Lambeau?
- Latest: rmontro
- 3 minutes ago
Green Bay Packers Fan Forum
Early 53 Man Roster Projection
- Latest: Dantés
- Today at 12:33 PM
Green Bay Packers Fan Forum
UDFA Signings 2025
- Latest: Curly Calhoun
- Today at 12:22 PM
Draft Talk
R
Nearly Perfect Draft...
- Latest: RicFlairoftheNFL
- Today at 12:00 PM
Draft Talk
R
Pick 87 Savion Williams WR TCU
- Latest: RicFlairoftheNFL
- Today at 11:55 AM
Draft Talk