Football in Green Bay: 'It's phenomenal'

[Tony Oday]

THAT WAS AWESOME!!! I was at the in-laws house, all big viking fans, and one of her cousins is a packer fan and we were the only packer fans there. SO when he caught the ball in the endzone casey and I erupt in cheers, got DIRTY looks from everyone so we went outside had a smoke and a beer

[Tony Oday]

I remember being in Lambeau the first time. It was when we won the central for the first time in my lifetime when we beat the broncos 42-10(i think that was the score). When I walked out and say the stadium it was awesome!

It is awesome, but I'm sorry to burst your bubble. That was in 1996. We won the Central the year before on Yancey Thigpen's drop--the same game Brett Favre got leveled by Kevin Greene, spit up blood, the Pack called a timeout, and Brett threw a TD pass on the next play.

We destroyed Denver in 1996 (they rested John Elway and a lot of starters). Favre had a sweet play in that game. He stiff-armed a DL (I think it was Michael Dean Perry), then threw a TD pass to Antonio Freeman.

AH damn

[BallHawk]

THAT WAS AWESOME!!! I was at the in-laws house, all big viking fans, and one of her cousins is a packer fan and we were the only packer fans there. SO when he caught the ball in the endzone casey and I erupt in cheers, got DIRTY looks from everyone so we went outside had a smoke and a beer

No broken beer bottles?

[Tony Oday]

Nope it was real funny though they all sat there in disbelief. The best was Paul Allen the voice of the purple just announcing the call, "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, Touchdown Cardinals, NOOOOOOOOOO!!!" hehehe was awesome!

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Re: GB

The first game I went to at Lambeau, I sat there in awe. There is no other mystique like it in all of sports.

i still get that feeling everytime i enter the bowl, just coming out of one of the tunnels and seeing it all there just raises the hair on the back of your neck.


great article

[HarveyWallbangers]

Strangest moment for me watching a game with Viking fans:

Normally, the Viking fans that I watch games with are loud, drunk, and extremely obnoxious (and most are my family members, and they've been giving me hell since I was a kid in the late 70s). However, I went to a party hosted by a friend of mine. He's laidback. He's a Vikings fan, but doesn't take it too seriously. This party happened during the 1998 NFC Championship Game. Minnesota vs. Atlanta. Everybody there was just super duper nice, not cocky, etc. I almost felt bad for the Vikes. Well, not the Vikes because inside I was happy, but I didn't show my happiness because everybody there was just plain nice. They were sad, and I know how they felt because I went through it the year before when we lost the Super Bowl.

With most of the Viking fans I know, I wouldn't have shown my happiness, but I wouldn't have felt one ounce of sorrow for them. Hell, most of my friends didn't even talk to me for several months after the Packers won the Super Bowl, and then they didn't talk about football. They didn't even say congratulations.

[Tony Oday]

I was running up and down the halls of my dorm when Anderson missed that kick

[Green Bud Packer]

i make a yearly pilgrimage to lambeau and i suggest all pcker fans make this pilgrimage at least once in thier lives. it's good for the soul.

[oregonpackfan]

i make a yearly pilgrimage to lambeau and i suggest all pcker fans make this pilgrimage at least once in thier lives. it's good for the soul.

Agreed!

OPF

[BallHawk]

i make a yearly pilgrimage to lambeau and i suggest all pcker fans make this pilgrimage at least once in thier lives. it's good for the soul.

If swamped the word "lambeau" with "Mecca" and the word "packer fans" with "Islams" that sentence would still read perfectly.

[woodbuck27]

I'll be dreaming about this tonight. You Packer fans put me there.

Thanks.

[GrnBay007]

Visiting Lambeau for the first time..........WOW! What an experience that is for a Packer fan. My first time was only two years ago. Walking through the entry and seeing the field and all the fans for the first time is breathtaking, Funny, 3 trips later and I still feel the same way going there!! I doubt that feeling will ever change.....the whole Green Bay experience is awesome!

[superfan]

My first Packer game at Lambeau was a memorable experience. Chills during the opening player introductions, tears of joy and frustration during the game. Mostly I remember trying to consciously soak up every second of the experience.

I had previousy been to about a dozen Badger games before, and Camp Randall is phenomenal in its own right. It's simply a different atmosphere -- I wouldn't say one is necessarily better than the other. Both are a blast.

I'm 3-0 at Lambeau and hope to make it 4-0 vs Arizona this year. That first game managed #48 on Christl's top 50 moments in Lambeau history list published in 2003 (on jsonline.com).

"48. A 63-yard touchdown run by Ahman Green late in the third quarter and a 55-yard punt return for a touchdown by Allen Rossum with 3:03 left allow the Packers to overcome a 10-point deficit and slip past the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 21-20. (Nov. 4, 2001)."

[HarveyWallbangers]

Welcome superfan!

I was at that game also.

[Terry]

i make a yearly pilgrimage to lambeau and i suggest all pcker fans make this pilgrimage at least once in thier lives. it's good for the soul.

If swamped the word "lambeau" with "Mecca" and the word "packer fans" with "Islams" that sentence would still read perfectly.

Yeah, but you'd have to add another sentence about blowing up people en route.