PackerRats Glossary

[theeaterofshades]

Next up: Fire Slocum (unless my answer is deemed incorrect)

Fire Slocum - The rallying cry after more special team failures... and God, there were a lot.

Next Up: Polar Bear

[pbmax]

Fire Slocum - The rallying cry after more special team failures... and God, there were a lot.

Next Up: Polar Bear

Slocum haunts the team to this day. Its downright eerie.

Polar Bear: Mostly non-affectionate nickname for Ted Thompson. Initiated by Tank (aka Anti-Polar Bear) as a derogatory reference to the man who signed Matt O'Dwyer to a contract instead of Marco Rivera. If comparing those two players directly and reading the insinuation that Thompson preferred O'Dwyer to Rivera as a player makes your mind melt, then you understand what Polar Bear usage is all about. Brave members of the board have tried to take back the name and give it a more positive usage.


Next up: Frankenbacker!

[mraynrand]

Would be nice to update the first post to include all of this great info. New people might actually use it

this made me chuckle a bit.

[MadScientist]

Next up: Frankenbacker!

Frankenbacker: A linebacker who also plays an offense position such as TE. Could also be extended with to any two-way player, if one of the positions is some sort of back. Originated with Spencer Havner.

Next up: Purple Jesus

[channtheman]

Frankenbacker: A linebacker who also plays an offense position such as TE. Could also be extended with to any two-way player, if one of the positions is some sort of back. Originated with Spencer Havner.

Next up: Purple Jesus

Good old Spencer Havner! Reminds me of this video. Hard to believe it's seven years old already.

[KYPack]

Love this one Chan.

Don't think "Deelywhopper", needs to be added to the glossary, but it's a Wisconsin word all the way.

[Guiness]

A Bretsky curse, of course, is an enthusiastic endorsement of a player who subsequently fails. Its exact etymology, origins and archetypical examples I leave to others, but its usage demurs and hedges one's own enthusiasm for unproven players, as in "I don't want to put a Bretsky curse on the guy but this kid Bostick has great instincts and is gonna be remembered here down the road".

'subsequently fails' doesn't quite cut it! The so-endorsed player will fail spectacularly, on or off the field, with extra points for assault related charges
see: Thurman, Odell

[pbmax]

Frankenbacker: A linebacker who also plays an offense position such as TE. Could also be extended with to any two-way player, if one of the positions is some sort of back. Originated with Spencer Havner.

Next up: Purple Jesus

Purple Jesus is the internet bestowed nickname for Adrian Peterson, given his dominance as a running back almost immediately in his career. He battered the Packers enough that even kool-aid drinking Green and Gold fans had to admit he looked positively divine while waiting for Packer defenders to overcommit, then cut back against them for huge yardage. Combination of speed and power was astonishing at times.

We will cover a later chapter of the Royal Color son of Jim Brown in a later entry for PackerRats Glossary.


Next up: Pad Level

[Upnorth]

Next up: Pad Level

In many of MM early pressers any and all issues with line play can be addressed and in theory fixed by changing their pad level. This evolved to a short way of saying MM evaded or ignored the question at said pressers. I think he is the most secretive of all head coaches now...

Next Up: The meadow

[pbmax]

C'mon people! Let's get this in gear! We haven't even gotten to wist's best work yet!

Rand has to have a comment about the Meadow. And woodbuck will have a lot to say when he comes back from his summer residence in midseason.

[Joemailman]

I've never really understood what The Meadow was. Perhaps Skin or someone can explain. http://packerrats.com/showthread.php?23092-The-Meadow

[swede]

I think my favorite mean from another board was when one of our posters fresh out of a free public school system pointed out that hindsight was 50/50.

That meme even has deeper levels of meaning. Maybe hindsight is 50/50.

[theeaterofshades]

I think my favorite mean from another board was when one of our posters fresh out of a free public school system pointed out that hindsight was 50/50.

That meme even has deeper levels of meaning. Maybe hindsight is 50/50.

actually 50/50 would be the equivalent of 20/20 so he isn't wrong per say:



"It's essentially equal to 20/20. It means that when standing fifty feet away from something, (let's assume you're reading) you can read what the average person would be able to from fifty feet away. If you had 50/100 vision, it would mean that you would have to be fifty feet away from something to see what the average person can see from one hundred feet away."

[mraynrand]

[pbmax]

There are no cement blocks in the Meadow.