commentary...

yesterday,i got a little edgy with my father over last weekend's 38-8 Packers' loss to the Arizona Cardinals... he kept on giving me the needle over the loss,and finally,i told him that enough is enough... sorry,Dad... you must understand that it was not the 38-8 score,or the needle being jabbed into my side by my father... it was the simple fact that the Packers simply have not played Packers' football,the team effort simply was not there last weekend,or the fact that the Packers playing like they are a third rate expansion team over most of this season simply disgusts me,period... you say that ten wins is good... i agree,but it is the way that they have beaten those teams that has irritated me,this season... i got to thinking about what is missing with this year's team,and you can talk about injuries,bad playcalling,bad defense at times,especially last week,but honestly,it simply comes down to one thing... wonder what it is??? because i do finally know what it is... it is not injuries and such... it is simply team grit... an attitude of "who cares,we hate you,and we are going to beat the pants off of you"... DA BEARS were 15-1,in 1985(the best team in the NFL),and they had the attitude of a team who said that you are not going to beat them,period... they were coached by Mike Ditka,a coach who simply hated the Packers,and we hated him... William Perry scored two touchdowns against the Packers:one at Soldier Field,on Monday Night Football,and caught one touchdown pass at Lambeau Field,later on that season... a funny story came out of that Lambeau Field game:somehow,DA BEARS' locker room got flooded before the game,so Ditka,pissed about what happened,called for that touchdown pass to Perry... that is grit:an attitude of "we hate you,and you are the enemy"... folks,i miss that attitude,that grit in a rivalry,like DA BEARS' linebacker breaking the Packers' player's nose,with a sucker punch,or the Packers' team band marching down Michigan Avenue,going into hotels on route to the game,blaring at full volume,one year... by the way,the one loss in 1985 that DA BEARS suffered,was on Monday Night Football,in Miami,and they got spanked 48-17,that night...