11-time National Sportswriter of the Year

[Goober McTuber]

You root for the Green Bay Packers in this Super Bowl because Steelers fans want their team to win but Packers fans need their team to win. They need it like air.

The football stadium can fit 72 percent of the town inside of it. One in every 54,000 Chicagoans is a Bears' fan, but one in 1,900 Green Bay residents is a Packers' fan. It says "Titletown" on the city seal. The Packers are Green Bay and vice versa. Their very souls are dimpled pigskin.

You root for the Packers in this Super Bowl because most of the hotels in Green Bay are sold out for the game. Yes, hotels in Green Bay are sold out for a game in Dallas. "I got people from all over the country coming to watch the game at my bar," says Jerry Watson, who owns Stadium View, the biggest tavern in town. "Packers fans just have to watch with other Packers fans. ... Last time we were in a Super Bowl, I came to open up in the morning and I had 1,000 people waiting to get in. At 8 a.m. I turned the lock and ran for it."

You root for the Packers in this Super Bowl because karma owes Brett Favre a very terrible Sunday for what he did to Packers fans; for what he did to the front office; for all the fake retirement press conferences and fake tears and fake posturing; for dragging Aaron Rodgers' career around through his own muddy whims. Rodgers deserved better and now he deserves this.

You root for the Packers in this Super Bowl because Green Bay is the last little town to keep its team. You want it for Decatur, Ill., which lost its team to Chicago, and Portsmouth, Ohio, which lost its to Detroit, and Pottsville. Pa., which lost its to Boston. You root for the Packers for the same reason you root for Roberto Benigni to win the Oscar or Buster Douglas to win the fight. It's right.

You root for the Packers in this Super Bowl because it's more than just Green Bay's football team. It's the blood in their veins and the asphalt under their tires. They drive down Lombardi Avenue. They speed down Holmgren Way. They park on Reggie White Way. They learn at Vince Lombardi Elementary and daydream of starring at Lambeau Field. And if they lose Sunday, there will be a line to jump off Ray Nitschke Bridge.

You root for the Packers in this Super Bowl for guys like the one on PackerForum.com writing about hearing his mom shriek downstairs and thinking she's in trouble and running down to find her in her robe and slippers shrieking in delight at the man standing in the doorway, Packers god Bart Starr, who had stopped by to drop off some gifts as thanks for the guy cutting Starr's lawn and shoveling his sidewalk this year.

You root for the Packers in this Super Bowl because being a Steelers fan is a sickness but being a Packers fan is incurable. In Green Bay, Packers gas up where you gas up, pray where you pray, eat where you eat. The players are like family, which means they get yelled at a lot. "That's the thing that's a little different here," says All-Pro Packers linebacker Clay Matthews. "If you mess up here, the lady at the grocery store will let you know."


You root for the Packers in this Super Bowl because, at the end of it, they're not giving out the Noll Trophy, they're giving out the Lombardi Trophy. Nobody on Broadway is rushing to see the hit play Cowher, but they are rushing to see the hit play Lombardi. (Over the years, though, many have gone to the one about Troy Polamalu: Hair.)

You root for the Packers in this Super Bowl because Packers fans took a taunt -- "You cheesehead!" -- and turned it into a gouda thing. In 1987, Ralph Bruno, while upholstering his mother's couch in Milwaukee, burned holes into one of the cushions, carved a hole for his head and painted it yellow. Thus, the Cheesehead product line was born. In Green Bay, you can also buy cheese top hats, cheese sombreros, cheese ties, cheese earrings, cheese footballs, cheese bricks, cheese beer cozies, cheese sunglasses, cheese flying discs and, naturally, cheese fezzes.

Do they wear steel beams in Pittsburgh?

You root for the Packers in this Super Bowl because if the Steelers left Pittsburgh there would still be the Penguins, who won the Stanley Cup in 2009, and the Pirates. True, they stink, but Albert Pujols visits all the time. If the Packers left, Green Bay's major attraction would be the L.H. Barkhausen Waterfowl Preserve. But some people would still take Packerland Drive to get there.

You root for the Packers in this Super Bowl because every now and then the game needs to have on top the little team nobody can seem to hate.

You root for the Packers in this Super Bowl because of Ouida Wright and her boyfriend, who never dreamed being homeless in Green Bay would be lucky. They were on the street when the Dallas Convention and Visitor's Bureau sent a "mystery" man out, waiting for someone to address him with the secret phrase: "Have you been to Dallas lately?" Wright heard about it, said it to the right guy and now she's going to the Big Bowl with her boyfriend. Hotel, tickets, flights--everything paid.

Yes, when they come back to Green Bay from watching the Packers play in the Super Bowl, they still won't have anywhere to live.

What's your point?

Fuck you, Jay Hanks.

[BSmack]

Fuck you, Jay Hanks.

Any references to Jay Hanks get autoracked.

[Goober McTuber]

This would have been an epoch two weeks at HØNKSVILLE.

[Screw_Michigan]

No surprise a no-talent hack like Gobbles McTubesteak would rack another hack like Reilly's work.

[Goober McTuber]

No surprise a no-talent hack like Gobbles McTubesteak would rack another hack like Reilly's work.

Really? You are supposedly a writer yourself. With the outright gibberish you’ve littered this board with, you’re going to criticize Reilly? Don’t sell that mop just yet.

[Screw_Michigan]

Really? You are supposedly a writer yourself. With the outright gibberish you’ve littered this board with, you’re going to criticize Reilly? Don’t sell that mop just yet.

Anyone who writes a column for ESPN is a Grade A tard. Reilly hasn't been shit since he mailed it in years ago and he trots out a column like this every Super Bowl.

You are probably the type of person who eats up Mitch Albom's shit like it is gold. Now fuck off, twerp.

[Goober McTuber]

Really? You are supposedly a writer yourself. With the outright gibberish you’ve littered this board with, you’re going to criticize Reilly? Don’t sell that mop just yet.

Anyone who writes a column for ESPN is a Grade A tard. Reilly hasn't been shit since he mailed it in years ago and he trots out a column like this every Super Bowl.

You are probably the type of person who eats up Mitch Albom's shit like it is gold. Now fuck off, twerp.

And who do you write for, Shakespeare, aside from Jizz-moppers Quarterly?

And BTW, this was not a referendum on Reilly, you stoopid basTURD. It was a Jay Hanks reset.

[poptart]

And if they lose Sunday, there will be a line to jump off Ray Nitschke Bridge.

Hopefully Gobbler will inch his way to the front of the line.









I actually liked the part about the Peckers winning this game as a dick up Brent Favre's @sshole.

[BSmack]

This would have been an epoch two weeks at HØNKSVILLE.

Absolfreakingloutley. God I still miss that hellhole.

[Mikey]

I ain't reading that shit.

Reilly's a self-important ass. I don't need him to tell me why I'm rooting for the Packers.

[Screw_Michigan]

I just re-read that article. Gobbles McFuckstain should be ashamed for trying to rack such a shitstain of a column. I could crank out a column like that while cranking out dead sperm.

You root for the Green Bay Packers in this Super Bowl because Steelers fans want their team to win but Packers fans need their team to win. They need it like air.

What a faggot.

[Paul]

The only relevance I see to that article is that Goobs and Reilly are both Grade-A douschebags.

[Mace]

Did Reilly used to write for Sports Illustrated?

[smackaholic]

This guy does make a good point about it really being hard hate the packers for a number of reasons.

There are other organizations in the NFL that don't muster up hate from others simply because they've never done anything. Teams like atlanta or the bolts don't really have haytahs the way the cowboys, raiduhs or squealers do. Actually, I guess you could say that rayduh fan hates the bolts, but that doesn't really caount because he hates everybody. The only reason he hasn't snowballed santa like philly fan has is a lack of snow. Well, that and maybe santa knows better than to visit a place with pretty much nobody on his "nice" list.

Congrats cheeseheads, you deserve it. Wonder what favruh is doing these days besides transmitting pics of his junk all over the place. You gotta think he might want to replay the last 5 years and he could have been there celebrating with the cheeseheads.

[Mace]

This guy does make a good point about it really being hard hate the packers for a number of reasons.

Unless you're a fan of the Chicago Bears or Minnesota Vikings.

[Screw_Michigan]

Did Reilly used to write for Sports Illustrated?

Yes.

[Screw_Michigan]

Congrats cheeseheads, you deserve it. Wonder what favruh is doing these days besides transmitting pics of his junk all over the place. You gotta think he might want to replay the last 5 years and he could have been there celebrating with the cheeseheads.

Doubt it. You think he'd want to be there as a backup? They don't make the Super Bowl with him as a starter, either.

And it's hard to hate the Packers? Please, ask anyone in the NFC North if it is hard to hate the Packers. At least GB fans here in DC aren't as insufferable as Steeler fans. Now that the Pens are gonna get cunt punted by the Caps in the playoffs this year, Shittsburgh fans won't have anything to squeal about this year.

[Screw_Michigan]

Suckaholic, you forgot that the Packers are the league's socialist team. Publicly owned. Publicly financed. A pinko's favorite team.

[Goober McTuber]

I just re-read that article. Gobbles McFuckstain should be ashamed for trying to rack such a shitstain of a column. I could crank out a column like that while cranking out dead sperm.

Please show where I racked that column. I simply posted it. For the sake of a Jay Hanks reset, because Hanks would have hated this whole process with the Packers playing in the Super Bowl IN DALLAS.

I never said it was a particularly good column, but if you could crank out anything near that good you wouldn't be mopping other men's jizz to put Ramen noodles in your pantry, you simple-minded fuck.

[smackaholic]

Suckaholic, you forgot that the Packers are the league's socialist team. Publicly owned. Publicly financed. A pinko's favorite team.

Are they actually publicly owned, or are they just owned by a bunch of private citizens in cheeseland?

If they are actually owned by the state AND a single nickle of general fund money goes to running them, then they suck and I have just found a reason to hate them. If they are publicly owned simply because the good folk of wisconsin realized they would have been packed up and moved away many years ago and wanted to prevent that from happening, I'm OK with it too.

[Goober McTuber]

Suckaholic, you forgot that the Packers are the league's socialist team. Publicly owned. Publicly financed. A pinko's favorite team.

Are they actually publicly owned, or are they just owned by a bunch of private citizens in cheeseland?

If they are actually owned by the state AND a single nickle of general fund money goes to running them, then they suck and I have just found a reason to hate them. If they are publicly owned simply because the good folk of wisconsin realized they would have been packed up and moved away many years ago and wanted to prevent that from happening, I'm OK with it too.

They are privately owned by many people. They are truly America's Team.

[smackaholic]

Suckaholic, you forgot that the Packers are the league's socialist team. Publicly owned. Publicly financed. A pinko's favorite team.

Are they actually publicly owned, or are they just owned by a bunch of private citizens in cheeseland?

If they are actually owned by the state AND a single nickle of general fund money goes to running them, then they suck and I have just found a reason to hate them. If they are publicly owned simply because the good folk of wisconsin realized they would have been packed up and moved away many years ago and wanted to prevent that from happening, I'm OK with it too.

They are privately owned by many people. They are truly America's Team.

That's what I thought.

Screwball full of shit? Imagine that.

Is there any sort of rule prohibiting any one person from going in and buying a controlling interest?

What is the stock price? I bet it's up today.

[Mace]

There are about 112,000 shareholders of 4.75 million shares and no one is allowed to purchase more than 200,000 shares. They sold 105,000 shares in 1997-98 at $200 a pop that raised $24 million for a stadium project. No dividends are ever paid.

[smackaholic]

So, who runs the fukking thing? If the organization makes money, where does it go. I would think that a team with such a loyal following would make some decent coin.

[War Wagon]

Screwey is right.

It was a 'cheesey' as fuck article from Reilly that only a cheesehead could love

Do they wear steel beams in Pittsburgh?

I don't know Rick, do they wear rump roasts in Green Bay?

They were named after meatpacking plants in the area, in case you didn't know.

[smackaholic]

So, what should they do for halftime shows?

I would actually like to see something, ohhh, i dunno, maybe.....FOOTBALL RELATED!!!!!!

Anyone remember the kicking/throwing contests they used to have with kids? That was actually kind of cool to watch. Something along those lines would be cool. What would really be cool, would be get some pop warner kids out there and let them play a few series or maybe just do an awards ceremony for these kids that one national level competition.

I will promise whatever network carries the stupor bowl, that i will stay tuned for halftime if you do this. i absolutely guaran-damn-tee i will not if we continue with really, really, really bad overblown stupidity like this last bit.

[smackaholic]

This guy does make a good point about it really being hard hate the packers for a number of reasons.

Unless you're a fan of the Chicago Bears or Minnesota Vikings.

There will always be divisional rivalry type hatred, I guess. I am talking a more widespread thing, kinda like the rayduhs or cowgirls have. And I would guess that more vikes/bears fans were pulling for the pack than the squealers.

[BSmack]

So, who runs the fukking thing? If the organization makes money, where does it go. I would think that a team with such a loyal following would make some decent coin.

Well for one thing, I'll bet that the Packers have some of the lower ticket prices in the NFL.

[Goober McTuber]

So, who runs the fukking thing? If the organization makes money, where does it go. I would think that a team with such a loyal following would make some decent coin.

Well for one thing, I'll bet that the Packers have some of the lower ticket prices in the NFL.

I believe it's about $65 a ticket.

[MgoBlue-LightSpecial]

You root for the Green Bay Packers in this Super Bowl because Steelers fans want their team to win but Packers fans need their team to win. They need it like air.

The football stadium can fit 72 percent of the town inside of it. One in every 54,000 Chicagoans is a Bears' fan, but one in 1,900 Green Bay residents is a Packers' fan. It says "Titletown" on the city seal. The Packers are Green Bay and vice versa. Their very souls are dimpled pigskin.

You root for the Packers in this Super Bowl because most of the hotels in Green Bay are sold out for the game. Yes, hotels in Green Bay are sold out for a game in Dallas. "I got people from all over the country coming to watch the game at my bar," says Jerry Watson, who owns Stadium View, the biggest tavern in town. "Packers fans just have to watch with other Packers fans. ... Last time we were in a Super Bowl, I came to open up in the morning and I had 1,000 people waiting to get in. At 8 a.m. I turned the lock and ran for it."

You root for the Packers in this Super Bowl because karma owes Brett Favre a very terrible Sunday for what he did to Packers fans; for what he did to the front office; for all the fake retirement press conferences and fake tears and fake posturing; for dragging Aaron Rodgers' career around through his own muddy whims. Rodgers deserved better and now he deserves this.

You root for the Packers in this Super Bowl because Green Bay is the last little town to keep its team. You want it for Decatur, Ill., which lost its team to Chicago, and Portsmouth, Ohio, which lost its to Detroit, and Pottsville. Pa., which lost its to Boston. You root for the Packers for the same reason you root for Roberto Benigni to win the Oscar or Buster Douglas to win the fight. It's right.

You root for the Packers in this Super Bowl because it's more than just Green Bay's football team. It's the blood in their veins and the asphalt under their tires. They drive down Lombardi Avenue. They speed down Holmgren Way. They park on Reggie White Way. They learn at Vince Lombardi Elementary and daydream of starring at Lambeau Field. And if they lose Sunday, there will be a line to jump off Ray Nitschke Bridge.

You root for the Packers in this Super Bowl for guys like the one on PackerForum.com writing about hearing his mom shriek downstairs and thinking she's in trouble and running down to find her in her robe and slippers shrieking in delight at the man standing in the doorway, Packers god Bart Starr, who had stopped by to drop off some gifts as thanks for the guy cutting Starr's lawn and shoveling his sidewalk this year.

You root for the Packers in this Super Bowl because being a Steelers fan is a sickness but being a Packers fan is incurable. In Green Bay, Packers gas up where you gas up, pray where you pray, eat where you eat. The players are like family, which means they get yelled at a lot. "That's the thing that's a little different here," says All-Pro Packers linebacker Clay Matthews. "If you mess up here, the lady at the grocery store will let you know."


You root for the Packers in this Super Bowl because, at the end of it, they're not giving out the Noll Trophy, they're giving out the Lombardi Trophy. Nobody on Broadway is rushing to see the hit play Cowher, but they are rushing to see the hit play Lombardi. (Over the years, though, many have gone to the one about Troy Polamalu: Hair.)

You root for the Packers in this Super Bowl because Packers fans took a taunt -- "You cheesehead!" -- and turned it into a gouda thing. In 1987, Ralph Bruno, while upholstering his mother's couch in Milwaukee, burned holes into one of the cushions, carved a hole for his head and painted it yellow. Thus, the Cheesehead product line was born. In Green Bay, you can also buy cheese top hats, cheese sombreros, cheese ties, cheese earrings, cheese footballs, cheese bricks, cheese beer cozies, cheese sunglasses, cheese flying discs and, naturally, cheese fezzes.

Do they wear steel beams in Pittsburgh?

You root for the Packers in this Super Bowl because if the Steelers left Pittsburgh there would still be the Penguins, who won the Stanley Cup in 2009, and the Pirates. True, they stink, but Albert Pujols visits all the time. If the Packers left, Green Bay's major attraction would be the L.H. Barkhausen Waterfowl Preserve. But some people would still take Packerland Drive to get there.

You root for the Packers in this Super Bowl because every now and then the game needs to have on top the little team nobody can seem to hate.

You root for the Packers in this Super Bowl because of Ouida Wright and her boyfriend, who never dreamed being homeless in Green Bay would be lucky. They were on the street when the Dallas Convention and Visitor's Bureau sent a "mystery" man out, waiting for someone to address him with the secret phrase: "Have you been to Dallas lately?" Wright heard about it, said it to the right guy and now she's going to the Big Bowl with her boyfriend. Hotel, tickets, flights--everything paid.

Yes, when they come back to Green Bay from watching the Packers play in the Super Bowl, they still won't have anywhere to live.

What's your point?

Nice take. I rooted for the Steelers.

[Cosmo Kramer]

Wow......nice cut and paste job...ASSWIPE!

[War Wagon]

You root for the Packers in this Super Bowl because of Ouida Wright and her boyfriend, who never dreamed being homeless in Green Bay would be lucky. They were on the street when the Dallas Convention and Visitor's Bureau sent a "mystery" man out, waiting for someone to address him with the secret phrase: "Have you been to Dallas lately?" Wright heard about it, said it to the right guy and now she's going to the Big Bowl with her boyfriend. Hotel, tickets, flights--everything paid.

Yes, when they come back to Green Bay from watching the Packers play in the Super Bowl, they still won't have anywhere to live.

I call bullshit.

If you're homeless (and I'll assume jobless) in Green Bay, the last thing anybody would do is fly back to that frozen shithole after getting a free ticket out to a warmer climate.

[Screw_Michigan]

If you're homeless (and I'll assume jobless) in Green Bay, the last thing anybody would do is fly back to that frozen shithole after getting a free ticket out to a warmer climate.

Uh, warmer climate? What rock were you living under last week?

[War Wagon]

It might get cold in Dallas for a few days or even a week, but it'll be 70 there soon enough. Cheeseland, not so much.

[Goober McTuber]

Wow......nice cut and paste job...ASSWIPE!

Did you really expect me to re-type the entire fucking thing, dickbreath?

[Cosmo Kramer]

The majority of your fucking takes are cut and paste since you have nothing original to say.

[Goober McTuber]

The majority of your fucking takes are cut and paste since you have nothing original to say.

You are a complete fucking moron. I know that's not original, you've heard it many times before.

[Cosmo Kramer]

It sounds like I struck a nerve with Goober McCut and Paste

[Goober McTuber]

It sounds like I struck a nerve with Goober McCut and Paste

Anyone who names themselves after a well-known sitcom tard and sports a picture of Willie Wonka is going to strike a nerve. I can only tolerate so much blatant stupidity in a day.

[Cosmo Kramer]

It sounds like I struck a nerve with Goober McCut and Paste

Anyone who names themselves after a well-known sitcom tard and sports a picture of Willie Wonka is going to strike a nerve. I can only tolerate so much blatant stupidity in a day.

Thanks for proving my point TARD!!!!!