woodbuck27
09-17-2006, 01:37 AM
Posted September 16, 2006
Packers fan mail
Management is ruining the Packers' reputation
LITTLE FALLS, Minn.  I want to express simple disgust in how the organization of the Green Bay Packers has fallen. I'm not saying I am looking for a Super Bowl win every year, but I blame management for putting an uncompetitive team on the field. Where is our pride and our intelligence in running this organization? It is hard seeing management running an organization into the ground over the past few years.
I have been a Packers fan for all 37 years of my life and never have I seen less heart in a team and coaching staff than this year. Poor choices from management to coaching have left us looking at another four-win year, or worse.
I have been in upper management for many years and would not have a job if I were to run a company like the management of the Packers is running the organization.
Mike Zawatzke
Brett Favre: Michelangelo with a set of crayons
HOWARD  When you respect someone's talents, you want them to have the tools they need to use them. Can you imagine giving Michelangelo a butter knife to sculpt, and crayons to create his art?
Can you imagine giving Shakespeare chalk to write his plays and sonnets?
Can you imagine the frustration Brett Favre must feel?
Don Behrendt
Football shouldn't be Robinson's top priority
GREEN BAY  Koren Robinson is a good guy. He says so. Thompson says so. Everybody says so. So? What's the problem?
Does he keep risking arrest because he's too stupid to subtract $545,000 a year (Packers) from $4.2 million a year (Vikings) for a net loss of $3.6 million annually? Is he too stupid to know that, by breaking parole, he may end up living in a small place with a roommate and a bad view, making maybe 25 cents an hour?
I'll give Robinson the benefit of the doubt. He's not stupid. He knows.
I'd say he just can't help it because he has alcoholism, a disease for which there's no cure; one can only control it day by day.
He doesn't stand alone. Free Alcoholics Anonymous meetings are held in every city, every day at any hour. Robinson doesn't need an expensive substance-abuse program. He'd only need to accept who and what he is, while attending meetings, exchanging hope and support with others like him.
Ted "This is a Good Kid" Thompson hired Robinson because he can carry a ball far and fast without being knocked down. I think Robinson has bigger fish to fry.
Mark Weiss
Robinson's signing defies what Packers stand for
GRAND FORKS, N.D.  I was born in Green Bay. I've been a Packers fan all my life, and still am. I'm old enough to remember being proud of the Pack sending Mossy Cade, James Lofton and Mark Chmura packing after their transgressions. The Pack has always "done the right thing," not accepting less-than-solid citizens in their moves.
The signing of Koren Robinson goes against everything the Pack has stood for in its storied history (at least what I remember of the last 40-plus years).
How naïve am I? I thought the week couldn't get any worse (Packers-wise) after the total debacle of the Bears game, and now this. Yes, Koren deserves chances  just not in Green Bay.
Color me not impressed. The Packers Nation will survive days and seasons like this, but that doesn't make it acceptable.
Don Barcome Jr.
Robinson's signing is a humiliating decision
HOPKINS, Minn.  We are Packers fans trapped in Minnesota. We live with the slams when management lets players slip away to the Vikings. But no matter what, we could always hold up the character of the team as being above reproach. But now ... Koren Robinson? What a humiliating move. We have signed a player from the morally bankrupt Vikings! BOOOO!
Sue McCarville
Hold Harlan accountable for collapse of Packers
OSHKOSH  The person who should be held accountable for the collapse of the Packers is Bob Harlan. If he wasn't so concerned about his legacy (buildings, statues, luxury boxes, etc.) instead of the team, we would not have this atrocity.
Reloading a team rather than rebuilding should have been apparent to the head of the Packers. Instead, being cheap, they got rid of Darren Sharper, Ryan Longwell and Mike Wahle. There goes the chemistry of the offense, defense and special teams. You can't blame the coach for this debacle. It's the man at the top and he has allowed this to happen.
Fritz Krueger
Packers fan mail
Management is ruining the Packers' reputation
LITTLE FALLS, Minn.  I want to express simple disgust in how the organization of the Green Bay Packers has fallen. I'm not saying I am looking for a Super Bowl win every year, but I blame management for putting an uncompetitive team on the field. Where is our pride and our intelligence in running this organization? It is hard seeing management running an organization into the ground over the past few years.
I have been a Packers fan for all 37 years of my life and never have I seen less heart in a team and coaching staff than this year. Poor choices from management to coaching have left us looking at another four-win year, or worse.
I have been in upper management for many years and would not have a job if I were to run a company like the management of the Packers is running the organization.
Mike Zawatzke
Brett Favre: Michelangelo with a set of crayons
HOWARD  When you respect someone's talents, you want them to have the tools they need to use them. Can you imagine giving Michelangelo a butter knife to sculpt, and crayons to create his art?
Can you imagine giving Shakespeare chalk to write his plays and sonnets?
Can you imagine the frustration Brett Favre must feel?
Don Behrendt
Football shouldn't be Robinson's top priority
GREEN BAY  Koren Robinson is a good guy. He says so. Thompson says so. Everybody says so. So? What's the problem?
Does he keep risking arrest because he's too stupid to subtract $545,000 a year (Packers) from $4.2 million a year (Vikings) for a net loss of $3.6 million annually? Is he too stupid to know that, by breaking parole, he may end up living in a small place with a roommate and a bad view, making maybe 25 cents an hour?
I'll give Robinson the benefit of the doubt. He's not stupid. He knows.
I'd say he just can't help it because he has alcoholism, a disease for which there's no cure; one can only control it day by day.
He doesn't stand alone. Free Alcoholics Anonymous meetings are held in every city, every day at any hour. Robinson doesn't need an expensive substance-abuse program. He'd only need to accept who and what he is, while attending meetings, exchanging hope and support with others like him.
Ted "This is a Good Kid" Thompson hired Robinson because he can carry a ball far and fast without being knocked down. I think Robinson has bigger fish to fry.
Mark Weiss
Robinson's signing defies what Packers stand for
GRAND FORKS, N.D.  I was born in Green Bay. I've been a Packers fan all my life, and still am. I'm old enough to remember being proud of the Pack sending Mossy Cade, James Lofton and Mark Chmura packing after their transgressions. The Pack has always "done the right thing," not accepting less-than-solid citizens in their moves.
The signing of Koren Robinson goes against everything the Pack has stood for in its storied history (at least what I remember of the last 40-plus years).
How naïve am I? I thought the week couldn't get any worse (Packers-wise) after the total debacle of the Bears game, and now this. Yes, Koren deserves chances  just not in Green Bay.
Color me not impressed. The Packers Nation will survive days and seasons like this, but that doesn't make it acceptable.
Don Barcome Jr.
Robinson's signing is a humiliating decision
HOPKINS, Minn.  We are Packers fans trapped in Minnesota. We live with the slams when management lets players slip away to the Vikings. But no matter what, we could always hold up the character of the team as being above reproach. But now ... Koren Robinson? What a humiliating move. We have signed a player from the morally bankrupt Vikings! BOOOO!
Sue McCarville
Hold Harlan accountable for collapse of Packers
OSHKOSH  The person who should be held accountable for the collapse of the Packers is Bob Harlan. If he wasn't so concerned about his legacy (buildings, statues, luxury boxes, etc.) instead of the team, we would not have this atrocity.
Reloading a team rather than rebuilding should have been apparent to the head of the Packers. Instead, being cheap, they got rid of Darren Sharper, Ryan Longwell and Mike Wahle. There goes the chemistry of the offense, defense and special teams. You can't blame the coach for this debacle. It's the man at the top and he has allowed this to happen.
Fritz Krueger