Packers $13.3 million beneath salary cap

[Zool]

it's funny but it's true... and gbrulz: im sorry for being honest and kind of cool . heaven forbid that kids like going out and getting laid ... im such an anamoly

i dont know how many of you middle-wisconsin folks are mid-twenty-somethin' black dudes but if you think there's no accuracy in my orieginal post you're dead wrong. could i have worded things differently to, perhaps, relate a bit more? sure... the point is that that's the point.

there's a huge relational gap to bridge between northern wisconsin and most of the country.

i love y'all, i've loved GB and the people up there every time i've been to a game, but i live in atlanta for a reason... it's fun, there are opportunities for everything here and im not going to get pulled over because my car is over 40k and I have my windows tinted (like has happened to me in GB just "because").

And we arent talking about a limited amount of spots on NFL rosters. we're talking about attracting free agents who're more desirable than Frank Walker (who?). These are guys we can't get to come to Green Bay -- not guys who're begging for a chance to get on the field. We sign *them* all the time.

Your "baller" lifestyle doesn't exist in more than a few places. That is not at all an accurate representation of the USA. Maybe NYC, LA, Atlanta, Chicago, Houston, and maybe a few others. In fact, most NFL cities don't have that lifestyle going on and the players would be in deep shit if they went out and partied like that.

Pacman lived a baller lifestyle too. See where that got him.

Fo Sho. The difference between WI and MN, ND, SD, IA, NB, OK....i digress.

Basically 95% of the country is like GB other than the winters. About 25% of the country has about the same weather.

I would add Miami and San Diego to Partials list.

MPLS is a lot like MKE in my opinion. Better local bands tho.

[PackerBlues]

it's funny but it's true... and gbrulz: im sorry for being honest and kind of cool . heaven forbid that kids like going out and getting laid ... im such an anamoly

i dont know how many of you middle-wisconsin folks are mid-twenty-somethin' black dudes but if you think there's no accuracy in my orieginal post you're dead wrong. could i have worded things differently to, perhaps, relate a bit more? sure... the point is that that's the point.

there's a huge relational gap to bridge between northern wisconsin and most of the country.

i love y'all, i've loved GB and the people up there every time i've been to a game, but i live in atlanta for a reason... it's fun, there are opportunities for everything here and im not going to get pulled over because my car is over 40k and I have my windows tinted (like has happened to me in GB just "because").

And we arent talking about a limited amount of spots on NFL rosters. we're talking about attracting free agents who're more desirable than Frank Walker (who?). These are guys we can't get to come to Green Bay -- not guys who're begging for a chance to get on the field. We sign *them* all the time.

I dont think you need to apologize for your comments Mission, you are probably right. I agree that a young man with a pocket full of money is more likely to want to play for a team in or near a big city. I lived in northern and southern California for years, and I can tell you for a fact, that on a daily basis, you could run into dozens of women that are beautiful enough to pass for models, be it at the beach, or just going to the local taco joint for dinner. I am sorry, but when I go out in any city in Wisconsin, I would have to look pretty hard to find many women that I would compare to a model. Heh heh, and of the ones I would compare to models, most of those are here on student visas from another country.

[mission]

hahahah are you kidding

Baller lifestyle is Pacman "making it rain" with $81,000 cash at Magic City (strip club). His baller lifestyle is hanging out with guys that went to Westlake High School (the most murders in school in the country last year). His lifestyle didn't get him anywhere. Growing up in Zone 4 Atlanta, literally a horrible place (and i dont live in the burbs... i live IN the CITY), got him that. A guy with absolutely NO NO NO NO money with millions all of a sudden and a promise to his boys that when he gets big he wont forget them.

That's not Atlanta and it's not BALLER. It's thug as shit. In Georgia, if you have a B or better GPA in high school, your college is paid for through a hope scholarship. There are thousands and thousands of affluent young black men driving super nice cars, living in huge houses, who dont own guns, dont hang out with guys who do and can speak coherent english (unlike pacman). They go out and they arent pop lock and dropping it... they arent throwing thousands of dollars of cash in the air. But damn, there future is set -- that's for sure.

If you think that Pacman is "baller" and "atlanta" or "major market" then you're so stuck in wisconsin it's beyond ridiculous. He is a THUG. and not like Michael Vick thug... I mean... an actual, THUG. running the trap... a THUG. you put him in fucking alaska and he'll find a way to be retarded.

My lifestyle is one of a 4-1 girl-to-guy ratio in a city where i can have my pick and if I wanna go listen to live music, I can take my pick of 15-20 different spots just within 10 minutes. I can buy property with basically no money down and make a killing off it. I can start a studio and sell it to Grand Hustle, I can run an advertising firm and have the University of Georgia excited to be a client.

I can do it. Because there are opportunities here. For me, for you ... and everyone else that cares to seize them.

[Spaulding]

Interesting thread and how the cap space translates to the Atlanta lifestyle (I'm not being sarcastic but mention it here because tone is impossible in plain text).

You're right about Green Bay and Wisconsin in general but the only type of players looking for lifestyle and/or nightlife aren't ones that put football first or likely play with a passion. They play football only to feed their ego and/or get rich which I can understand but that most often doesn't translate to a player you'd want on your team or one that comes with equal baggage.

Besides, most people grow beyond that phase once they start a family or least I envision that my tastes and priorities certainly changed with marriage and kids.

Sign players, not play-yahs