With the most exciting game of the NFL season behind us, the Dallas Cowboys are set to make a trip to Green Bay for what could be another entertaining match up. The Cowboys and Packers will be hard pressed to equal Monday night’s roller coaster ride, but this early season contest is just as important as the Cowboys-Eagles game.
Shirtless Green Bay Fans
Last November in Dallas, the Cowboys and Packers squared off on a Thursday night game televised by the NFL Network. Each team sported 10-1 records and the winner would get a huge step up on home field advantage throughout the NFC playoffs.
Like many, my local cable provider didn’t carry the NFL Network unless you paid an additional fee. Considering there were but two games of the eight the NFL Network carried last season that were of any interest to me, I refused to spend the extra money for programming that I’d seldom watch.
My recourse was the option most of us not getting the NFL Network chose – head to the neighborhood bar. And on that Thursday night I hooked up with my friend Crazy Jacki and headed down to T.J. Mulligan’s to watch the game.
I don’t know this for a fact but I can only guess the owner of this particular franchise must have been a Packer fan. Of the 300 or so patrons huddled around one of the many big screens, at least 95% were Green Bay fans.
The 10 or so Cowboys’ fans – myself and Crazy Jacki included – were easily spotted. In the sea of green and yellow, the Cowboy Blue stood out like a sore thumb. Crazy Jacki and I were literally surrounded by a bunch of oafs that spoke in that nasally midwestern accent and were completely devoid of rational thought.
I commented to Crazy Jacki that I admired passion and enthusiasm but I couldn’t condone the sheer stupidity, obnoxiousness and boorishness of the Packer supporters.
Green Bay Fans - Beers: 2 Active Brain Cells: 0
The team I’ve supported since my youth – ironically coming about as a result of the 1967 Packers-Cowboys game that has come to be known as the Ice Bowl – came out on top that night. But I was terribly disappointed to have been subjected to the Packer fans in attendance.
Before anyone gets the impression this is the narrow view of one person – and a Cowboys fan no less – I’m not alone in my opinion. In fact, you’d be surprised to learn that many Packer fans are embarrassed by other Packer fans.
Eric Mortensen of PackerHolic.com wrote this piece earlier this year regarding the fiasco turned daytime drama surrounding the Brett Favre reinstatement.
“This post is how I have finally become embarrassed to be a Packer fan. I have been a Packer fan since the day I was born and this is truly the only day I have ever been embarrassed to be a Packer fan. Why am I embarrassed to be a fan of the best team in the entire world? I am embarrassed by how other Packer fans are acting.”
Another self-professed Packer fan, Andrew Strnad, is a Milwaukee native that has been around long enough to remember the days of Lynn Dickey throwing passes to John Jefferson.
Strnad wrote a piece highlighting the differences between the passionate fan bases of the Nebraska Cornhuskers and Green Bay. Strnad wrote, “Packer fans can be very obnoxious. Whether at Lambeau Field or at a bar any day, any time of the week, these people live on a diet of ATF: Alcohol, tobacco, and football.”
Classy Green Bay Fans - Note The Cheese Bra
Considering the Packers have been part of the NFL since 1921 you’d think the fans would be well educated on the finer points of the game. But my personal experience with Packer fans only proved how arrogant and ignorant they were.
With cries of “the ref’s cheating” from several Packer fans all liquored up after Favre threw one of his two interceptions that night, I realized I was among a fan base that was delusional.
There was another Packer fan who kept jumping out of his seat and riding up the back of Crazy Jacki. Not once did he apologize for his rudeness and finally we had to give the little man wearing green and yellow a lesson in politeness. Little did he know how lucky he was not to have been thrown through the plate glass window that night – Crazy Jacki isn’t to be trifled with.
Sunday night when the Cowboys visit Green Bay, there will be nearly 73,000 fans in attendance and most of them will cheer for the Packers. Unfortunately for a few fans in attendance who will be pulling for the Cowboys, they’ll find out like I did they are surrounded by a bunch of nit-wits.
And I can take consolation in the fact that not only can I prove it, but fellow Packer fans have recognized how much of an embarrassment the cheese heads have become.
sorry Moondoggy i like the packers, rodgers has been through alot of ca ca because of bogus favre. with that said, good luck to your boyz ;0
I think what is sad now is the Cheeseheads are infesting the Jets games. I am a Dolphin fan and was sick when I saw a Jets fans with a cheesehead on his head.
I don’t think that particular issue is confined to Packers fans by any stretch. A few fan bases are classy, others just don’t care that much. I can tell you from personal experience that showing up at Arizona Cardinals games wearing visiting colors is no problem; the home team fans will likely be in the minority. Iowa State fans are quite OK to people wearing OU Sooner colors at their stadium; could be because they knew what the outcome is going to be. :-/ Now go hang out with a bunch of Eagles fans wearing Cowboy goods and get back to us…
I have to tell you that the Packer Club in MFS is perhaps the best organized of all NFL teams. When T.J. Mulligan’s first opened in MFS the owner actively sought out the groups huge following and enticed them to watch the Pack each week at T.J. Mulligan’s.
I know how Cowboy fans love to gloat and when things aren’t going good they tend to disappear, so get ready for the stat of the day. The Cowboys have a 15-12 lead in the all-time series against the Packers. But the Cowboys have lost all five games at Lambeau Field.