Vikes just signed Dwight Smith

[Guiness]

Score one for the NFL's August Paper Champions.

[Rastak]

Score one for the NFL's August Paper Champions.

This years champions on paper are the Bears, nobody is taking Minnesota to win the north.

[woodbuck27]

I'd have a very hard time living in Minnesota and would turn into an Anti Viking very very fast.

B.

That's because you are REAL.

Your not, just a fan. You understand fully the desire and passion of the victory and the agony of defeat. You've experienced both sides of the sheet.

Today your more in tune with OUR situation, struggle and status as a franchise. A franchise in a re-building phase that will suffer through another hard blow. Packer fans will soon feel the goodbye's to two more Great Packers in Brett Favre and Ahman Green. Yet, you B. hold your head up, like any decent Packer fan keep your chin in. Do your part to blend emotion and thoughts into reality - to try - to establish karma and truth for OUR teams status in the NFL.

To be a Packer fan means - to have proper pride and to sustain dignity. Dam it's almost akin to a great religious experience. At least I feel that way.

We felt the long wait, as far too much. Personally, I am better for that as a person and consequently as a Packer fan. In that miserable 25 years of waiting. Those of us that experienced it, were humbled. We grew more as NFL fans and in appreciation for what OUR team did that was enough for us to hold on for another then another season. . . We waited.We waited without the support of a Packer Haven like PACKERRATS.

B. Your like all of us Packer fans - ALWAYS PACKER.

We are cut from a certain cloth, bound in Packer Tradition and proper esteem and manners, when we address fans of other teams. Alot of that is derived from enjoying much success - VICTORY - but it's much much more.

One of the most successful and proud franchises in all of PRO Sports. Founded in one thing.

REALITY.

Alot of us on this Forum remember too well, the decade and a half of waiting - waiting (still waiting). Oh that miserable long wait from the Lombardi Packers till the WOLF - Holmgren - Favre (Reggie White) Era. ALL those Packers - those Packer teams.

We don't want younger Packer fans to have to endure that pain. Similiar to my parents not wanting me to experience another depression era.

So you B. and many others here, 'weigh in', with what is OUR individual Packer souls. As individuals - we see it from within ourselves. Sometimes that leads to disagreement over certain moves or issues and that is a good thing.

DAM I like Tony Oday suggested to me yesterday, would so much like to drink " the Packer Cool-Aid ". I slept on Tony's suggestion last night, but then the conservative, the realist, the moderate in me - seized and again sealed my Packer fan soul - directed me to TRUTH.

Yet, I am not afraid. I am here with my Packer fan brothers and sisters. I'm comforted in that. Simply trying my best, like you Bretsky and many other's here. To be heads up - as a Packer fan enjoy all that's here on this inspiring Forum to assist - to just simply HELP make some positive difference regarding the rest.

One last thing.

Why in Hell didn't T2 go all the way - down that muddy river - and bring T.O. to the Green and Gold?

Maybe it has something to do with a fella, not very happy in Oakland?

If not that - it has to be - something more.

This Packer fan, will not sit back ever - drink the cool-aid until it's time.

The NFL demands certain respects of conformity, and I'll DAM well do my part, my humble BEST to inform all of you - if I disagree with the way OUR Management is dealing with OUR TEAM.

Jeeee I seem tough here. I'm not.

That is my solemn promise and dedication as a Packer fan.

Bretsky. I'm so glad to share this forum with realists but not hard ass's.

Intelligent and inspiring and sharing Packer fans - like YOU PACKER FAN.

Always to learn - to experience fully.

[mngolf19]

I applaud the Vikings for their effort and Smith can only help; you never have enough good secondary people. I'd take him in a second over guys like Horton. Plus, if you don't use the money, you lose it.......so why not use it ?

Exactly Bretsky, and he knows the Tampa 2 so he can help the others with picking up the nuances.