Instant Replay-The Unedited Edition

I will never forget our first Super Bowl. We were in the first two representing the NFL who were the established traditional league. But you always remember your first.

We were playing the upstart AFL which was full of losers and guys who couldn't make it in our league. The Chiefs were led by that constipated midget Hank Stram and featured losers like Lenny Dawson who is the second most retarded Lenny after that guy who squeezed the rabbits. You see Lenny squeezed the football just as hard which is why he couldn't win a game against us if his life depended on it.

We had to take it easy on them in the first half. Not run up the score or anything like that. Pete Rozelle sent down word not to run up the score so Coach Lombardi made sure we held it down. Bart went crazy in the second half when Coach took his leash off.

It all started to change when good old Willie Wood made an interception and made a great run back to get us all fired up. Willie had a tough year that season. You see during the off season his wife had stuck an axe in his head in their off season home of Brownsville, Brooklyn. So he was kind of off all year round. He didn't even want to rob a liquor store in Milwaukee with the other Negroes on the team. That interception made all the difference and let us all forget about what a mope he had been all season.

Max Magee managed to sober up enough to catch a couple of touchdowns. Coach was pissed at him all year. Max had been boozing it up all week before the game. He only got to play because Boyd Dowler was hurt so he had no idea what was up.  Of course he had spent the whole season drunk so it was no real problem for him.

Paul Hornung was even worse if that was possible. He didn’t even get into the game. He had an injury. I think it was a distended anus that he got the week before when he went out drinking with Dandy Don and Lance Rentzel before the NFL championship game. He didn’t even seem to care much about the game. He didn’t even come into the locker room during halftime as he stood listening to Al Hirt and admiring how his cheeks would puff out when he was blowing on that horn. That and chatting with those young boys who played the piccolo in the marching band. Coach didn't seem to care. It seems his friends back in New York had let him know that the Golden Boy had bet the game heavy and that he took the Chiefs.

You see the Coach always had a good idea of how the game was going to come out based on what the boys back in New York had to say. He would call one of his old buddies like Frankie Carbo and get the word. The Packers were the favorites so he knew we were going to win. It was just a matter of by how much. Frankie and Socks Lanza said it was in the bag.

So the Super Bowl was sort of an anti-climax. I hope that it not always be that way. I just know that the Packers will be in one most every year. Coach says its a lock.

(Instant Replay- The Unedited Edition, Jerry Kramer & Dick Schaap Random House 1968)

Why you should burn your Green Bay Packers Tickets....Vince Lombardi is spinning in his grave.

GREEN BAY, Wis. – Aaron Rodgers said Tuesday that the Green Bay Packers were going to ask fans attending Thursday night's game against the Chicago Bears at Lambeau Field to join them in linking arms during the national anthem as a show of unity.

Later on Tuesday night, Packers players released a statement explaining what they hope to accomplish. Here’s that statement in full:

“The NFL family is one of the most diverse communities in the world. Just look around! The eclectic group of players that you root for, the coaches you admire, the people you sit next to in the stands, those high-fiving on military bases, fans at the sports bar or during tailgate parties—we all come from different walks of life and have unique backgrounds and stories.

“The game of football brings people together. As NFL players, we are a living testimony that individuals from different backgrounds and with different life experiences can work together toward a common goal.

“This Thursday during the national anthem at Lambeau Field, Packers players, coaches and staff will join together with arms intertwined—connected like the threads on your favorite jersey. When we take this action, what you will see will be so much more than just a bunch of football players locking arms. The image you will see on September 28th will be one of unity. It will represent a coming together of players who want the same things that all of us do—freedom, equality, tolerance, understanding, and justice for those who have been unjustly treated, discriminated against or otherwise treated unfairly. You will see the sons of police officers, kids who grew up in military families, people who have themselves experienced injustice and discrimination firsthand, and an array of others all linking together in a display of unity.

“Those of us joining arms on Thursday will be different in so many ways, but one thing that binds us together is that we are all individuals who want to help make our society, our country and our world a better place. We believe that in diversity there can be UNI-versity. Intertwined, we represent the many people who helped build this country, and we are joining together to show that we are ready to continue to build.

“Let’s work together to build a society that is more fair and just.

“Join us this Thursday by locking arms with whoever you’re with, stranger or loved one, wherever you are—intertwined and included—in this moment of unification.”

-- The Packers Players

The Pack is Whack: Aaron Rodgers Neighborhood

This is why Aaron Rodgers is silent on festering family drama

New York Post By Jaclyn Hendricks January 17, 2017 

Whispers surrounding Aaron Rodgers’ family feud are getting louder and louder as the Packers move closer and closer to the Super Bowl.

Days after the New York Times investigated Rodgers’ strained relationship with his family, a source close to the quarterback revealed he has no plans to comment on the rift.

“Aaron has never wanted to air this out in a public forum. He’s going through great precautions not to make things worse,” the insider told People. “You’re not going to see him on Oprah crying about all of this. He will deal with his family issues privately.”

Rodgers’ family drama went fully public last summer following Jordan Rodgers’ appearance on “The Bachelorette.” As Jordan moved further along in the competition, he came clean to now-fiancée JoJo Fletcher about the fractured relationship with his older brother.

“I have a great relationship with my brother Luke. Me and Aaron really don’t have much of a relationship,” Jordan explained. “It’s just kind of the way he’s chosen to do life, and I chose to stay close with my family, my parents and my brother."

“It’s not ideal, and I love him. I can’t imagine what it’s like to be in his shoes and have the pressure he has and the demands from people he has. Don’t have hard feelings against him. It’s just how things go right now.”