What an unbelievable weekend for Packers’ fans! A blowout win by the Green & Gold and a loss by the despised Cowboys, which in turn leaves the NFC Championship game in Lambeau Field next Sunday. Sorry for the delay in this entry, but I had to let this weekend soak in so I wouldn’t get cocky and say “I told you so”! Unfortunately it didn’t work. I told you so! Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn once in a while. Hell, I even have a hole-in-one. Life is good.
Life is indeed good for the Green Bay Packers. I cannot believe that I am going to go to yet another game at Lambeau this year. I will have my pictures from Saturday up tomorrow, thanks to my nephew I have some really good shots. It was a glorious day at Lambeau and I enjoyed every minute of it after the Packers tied the game at 14. I did yell to the players to the best of ability as they left the field after defeating Mike Holmgren in the playoffs yet again, “You are not done yet” in memory of the 1996 Super Bowl Champions lead by the now Seahawks coach. Two more to go.
Sorry folks, but I again like the Packers, although, I know, you know, and the American people know, the Giants are not the Seattle Seahawks. The Giants have a tremendous defense, ranked seventh in the regular season and have been dominant in the postseason thus far, shutting down Tampa Bay and Dalllas. The Packers won’t score 42 points on Sunday, I promise you that. I like Green Bay because I think they can stop the Giants running game and despite the fact the Giants will be looking for revenge after the 35-13 beat-down the Packers laid on them in week two, the teams are so different now I see a totally different game. A defensive battle is my guess at this very moment in time.
You know how I hate to get overconfident but as I write this I am watching my DVD of Saturday’s game and this team has so many similarities to the the Packers’ Super Bowl teams of the 1990s it’s scary. They rely on Brett Favre for three months then turn the tables and grind it out on the ground in December and January. Back then the Packers had Edger Bennett, now the Packers running back coach, and Dorsey Levens as their two-headed horse. Now they have Ryan Grant, who just continues to amaze, and Brandon Jackson who has come on strong the last few weeks of the season and actually had the first touchdown pass by a running back this year against the Seahawks.
And now the game is in Lambeau in what is expected to be an a very cold day with the forecast at this very minute calling for a high of eleven and a twelve mile-an-hour wind out of the west. Sucks for me. Many layers this week. Makes the walk to Curly’s Pub that much more cumbersome. But great for the Green Bay Packers. I think the Giants are not a cold weather team. New York rarely has cold home games like the Packers do, much less the attitude of being a cold weather team. Yes, I know the Packers got worked in the cold and wind in Chicago a few weeks ago, and because it was the Bears, I will never forget it, but I think the Packers’ players have forgotten it, hell most of them are too young to know that the Packers and Bears are even rivals.
I’m not going to come out a predict a 37-0 rout like I thought was possible last week, and almost happened, I might add, because the New York Giants’ defense scares me big time. My early thinking is that the Packers will struggle to score but the Giants and Eli Manning will struggle even more, turning the ball over enough times to allow the Packers to get pummeled in the Super Bowl. That is not prediction, however. Don’t get carried away on Monday. This is the playoffs.
More to come…