If you could have been at any Packers game ever...

[twoseven]

Anyone remember the 1/6/96 NFC Divisional Playoff against the 49ers????

The 49ers were heavily favored to win. The field turned into a mudbowl and Edgar Bennett went off. The Journal-Sentinel had the front page of 49ers Offensive Linemen standing around covered in mud and looking like they wished they were anywhere in the world but Green Bay.

The Packers had arrived. They lost to Dallas the next weekend in the NFC Championship, but the stage had been set for the 1996 Superbowl run.

I didn't remeber that game turning into a mudbowl, just remember the sunny skies (sure you're not thinking of 96' at Lambeau, that was a mudfest alright). But what I do remember about 95' is Steve Young on their first play from scrimmage (I believe) throwing his typical conservative sissy ass swing pass to his right and Craig Newsome absolutely destroying the back, ball was turned over to us deep in whiner territory. We scored before they knew what hit them. That hit set let the whiners know we had arrived and it set the tone for what became an era of dominance of Favre over the whiners. Brett lost only 1 game in his career to the niners (9-1) and that was the Jerry Rice fumble that never was in 98' wild card playoff. I will NEVER forget the hit that Newsome laid on that SF player, right up there with the spastic reaction Chuck Cecil displayed after laying out the Bears' RB Neal Anderson one time. I get shivers just thinking about those two hits.

[oregonpackfan]

Anyone remember the 1/6/96 NFC Divisional Playoff against the 49ers????

The 49ers were heavily favored to win. The field turned into a mudbowl and Edgar Bennett went off. The Journal-Sentinel had the front page of 49ers Offensive Linemen standing around covered in mud and looking like they wished they were anywhere in the world but Green Bay.

The Packers had arrived. They lost to Dallas the next weekend in the NFC Championship, but the stage had been set for the 1996 Superbowl run.

That was a great game. Desmond Howard made two critical plays in that game. The first was a punt return or kickoff(I can't remember which) for a touchdown. In the second play, he returned a punt to the 49'er five yard line. The Packers went on to score a touchdown after that return.

I remember that Matt Millan was the "Color commentator" for that game. He called Howards' returns "Unbelievable."

[Iron Mike]

But what I do remember about 95' is Steve Young on their first play from scrimmage (I believe) throwing his typical conservative sissy ass swing pass to his right and Craig Newsome absolutely destroying the back, ball was turned over to us deep in whiner territory. We scored before they knew what hit them. That hit set let the whiners know we had arrived and it set the tone for what became an era of dominance of Favre over the whiners.

IIRC, it was Wayne Simmons that hit Adam Walker and Newsome picked up the fumble and scored.

Remember there was a controversy about some 49er assistant leaving his playbook in a restaurant somewhere and the thought was that somebody from the Packers MUST have wound up with it, because the Packers sure did seem to know what plays the 49ers would be running.

[Iron Mike]

I'm misremembering. ($1 to Roger Clemens)

The game was at 3Com Park:

http://thewisconsinsportsbar.blogspot.com/2006/12/going-back-to-1995-happier-time-when.html

THIS is a game I wish I had been at. Taunting the Whiners fans would have been AWESOME!!!!

[privatepacker]

I must be the old timer here, the one game I would love to have been at was against the Cowboys. It was the NFL championship game in 66. The year before the Ice Bowl. It was a game that went to the last play. I won like $2.00 dollars in bets and remember that Vince only used like a dozen plays. At least that's what I remember reading in the papers. That game and the Monday night game against the Redskins would have been great to be in attendance.

[bbbffl66]

I was at the Atl game at County Stadium. Awesome!
I don't know if I could have lived thru the Ice Bowl- barely made it thru the NFC Championship game.
I guess I'd say the NFC Championship against Carolina.
Great atmosphere.