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05-22-2020, 08:13 AM
https://www.jsonline.com/story/sports/nfl/packers/2020/05/22/50-greatest-wisconsin-sports-moments-no-1-packers-win-sb-xxxi/3115393001/
Best notes:
1. Outdueling Michael Bates in the NFC Championship Game. Both players were talking a bit pregame but Bates correctly noted Desmond had been a more successful punt returner that year than KO returner. Desmond and his boys put up 26 yards per KO return. Bates had 14.8. Bates had averaged 30 in the 1996 season.
2. Don "Freaking" Beebe was on the KO return team. That's how you get to a Super Bowl with good ST. If Funchess is on punt return this camp, I will take it as a good sign.
3. Keith McKenzie was on KO return which just seems unfair to the kickoff team.
4. Andre Rison's TD catch was an audible. If not for Bruce Wilkerson, the award would be the Andre Rison Thanks for Saving our Ass Award.
"It was an audible," Rison said. "Brett came to the line of scrimmage and saw the safeties come down and he (called an audible) and changed the play. I had a post on (Smith) and caught him in man-to-man coverage. I just ran the route, and Brett just hit me with a great pass."
Best notes:
1. Outdueling Michael Bates in the NFC Championship Game. Both players were talking a bit pregame but Bates correctly noted Desmond had been a more successful punt returner that year than KO returner. Desmond and his boys put up 26 yards per KO return. Bates had 14.8. Bates had averaged 30 in the 1996 season.
2. Don "Freaking" Beebe was on the KO return team. That's how you get to a Super Bowl with good ST. If Funchess is on punt return this camp, I will take it as a good sign.
3. Keith McKenzie was on KO return which just seems unfair to the kickoff team.
4. Andre Rison's TD catch was an audible. If not for Bruce Wilkerson, the award would be the Andre Rison Thanks for Saving our Ass Award.
"It was an audible," Rison said. "Brett came to the line of scrimmage and saw the safeties come down and he (called an audible) and changed the play. I had a post on (Smith) and caught him in man-to-man coverage. I just ran the route, and Brett just hit me with a great pass."