Packers fans are one of the best groups of fans. Do we know if the fan who did and said those things were Packers fans, or Favre fans or fan's of another team who felt the need to act out?

Even if each one of those people were Packers fans, that does not define the rest of us. That's a huge ignorant misrepresentation and is equal to someone owning a one Chevrolet that the torque converter fails and then claims "CHEVYS FUCKING SUCK". No, YOU'RE Chevy sucks, not all of them. Same thing with these fans, of whichever or whomever, they are the ones that suck and I do not include them as Packers fans, because a Packers fan wouldn't do such a thing. I feel that applies to all fan bases, even the Eagles.

HOWEVER, that's not how we think. Instead we see a guy wearing a Eagles ball cap robbing a bank and we (myself included) will joke and say "ha, figures he's an eagles fan!) even though he may be homeless and found the cap in the garbage.

Packers fans are one of, if not the best fans. If you question that, live in Green Bay and spend more time in public places than your residence. Then travel to other football cities. I assure you, you will not see a similar passion in nearly 3/4's of those cities and that's being generous.

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dude. i grew up in Appleton, then lived in Milwaukee, Boston, and NYC. i think i have enough experience "oustide my residence", dick. pay the fuck attention. also: i'm drunk. also: read my disclaimer. also: don't you fucking know better by now? who am i? yeah. fucking duh. i say things. stop crying.

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From the sounds of it, you've yet to leave Appleton.

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what does that even mean? but yeah...uh...go you? i guess?

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This comment made me chuckle. What a shit hole that town is. I cringe every time I drive through it, which I do regularly because someone I love very much lives there.

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You may in fact have a good point; obviously, I can't know what they were thinking one way or another. Still, if their obsession with one quarterback was so great as to boil over into hate against his predecessor, there is something at least seriously dysfunctional about them, and in some cases, perhaps even evil. But the fact that we may conveniently choose to label them as not true Packers fans but Favre fans only, and as accurate as that assessment may be, the fact remains that they did claim Packer Nation as their home, and thus their foul behavior tainted all of Packer Nation. Those of us who remained faithful to our team and supported our new quarterback through all of this were, through no fault of our own, besmirched by association. I grieved over the schism when it happened, until I grew disgusted with it; and every reminder of it renews my disgust.

I think at the very least, this fiasco should humble us as Packers fans. We have much to prove before we can dare to call ourselves the best fans in the NFL again. I truly hope that day comes again soon. But maybe we won't be able to reclaim our laurels until we successfully pass another major test. I fervently hope we can.

EDIT: You raised a good point about the people who committed these acts doing so not because they were Favre (or Packers) fans per se but because they were angry, disgruntled people who were looking for an excuse and a convenient target on whom to vent their frustrations and aggression. It's like people who commit violence in the name of religion or some other cause: they are violent people by nature. They just choose one set of beliefs or another as a convenient justification for their acts. It just so happens that these people chose Favreolatry as their excuse.

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You can only be disgruntled over the situation if you put Favre over the good of the team. I still don't understand why people did not see this from the day Favre announced his retirement. Which I though was obvious that he was going to do the second he threw the int to end the '07 season.

I am a Packer fan first and if Rodgers turned on the team I would treat him like I treat the Ol Fatre. Who is dead and unburied to me. Time to bury him, the corps is starting to stink.

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Humbling? WTF? It was one person who keyed his truck, it was one kid KID who swore at him, it was writing on his driveway by we'll say a half dozen people. This wasn't hundreds of fans ... FANS ... partaking in this bullshit.


I will not be disgraced by being a Packers fan because of what a few wastes of skins have done. I will be responsible for MY actions, not theirs. If some want to be pussies and cower down because of those fucktards, so be it, you're PATHETIC and a weak fan.

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