For me....

You can only love, if they love you back.

It is like I am living in the hills outside of Salt Lake City Utah in a cast off Mormon group that still believes in having more than one wife. I love them both equally.

Number One wife is the RAIDERS. Fact is I love her, but she has not loved me back for 8 years. She is trying her best to love me back this year though.

Number Two wife is the Packers...... at least she loves me back.

If you give love, you should get some love back.

Right now I sleep with Wife Number Two 5 nights a week, and make the obligated journey into Wife Number One's bed twice a week.

However... We all have SIX children (Super Bowls) together. Three from Wife Number One, and three from Wife Number Two.

The kids are doing well. It is madness!

"There is always some madness in love. But there is always some love in madness."

"RaiderPride" wrote:

Ha, yeah living in enemy territory definitely increases the hardcore fandom. Peter and I are from North Dakota (Vikings territory for sure), and I went to college in Moorhead MN, and just graduated this spring from Luther Seminary, which is in St. Paul. It's been a wild ride. It makes it fun though.

"bozz_2006" wrote:

I grew up in southeastern South Dakota -- Viking country for sure. My dad, a Minneapolis native, remains a Viking fan. When I was a youngster I skipped around from favorite team to favorite team -- the Dolphins, 49ers, the Steelers to an extent.

In 4th grade I settled on the Packers. I had a few friends that were Packer fans and I paid a lot of attention to mainstream coverage of football. Brett Favre played a sizable role in my fandom.

When they won the Super Bowl the next year, it just sort of stuck. I have no backup teams these days. Only one team can make me jump for joy or turn my stomach -- the Pack. As time has gone by I've become an increasingly hardcore fan.

As to why -- I was an impressionable 9 year old and longevity has played its part. I also lived in Minneapolis for the better part of four years during college. Living in the enemies' nest, at least in my experience, strengthened my Green Bay bonds.

"evad04" wrote:

Ha, yeah living in enemy territory definitely increases the hardcore fandom. Peter and I are from North Dakota (Vikings territory for sure), and I went to college in Moorhead MN, and just graduated this spring from Luther Seminary, which is in St. Paul. It's been a wild ride. It makes it fun though.

"bozz_2006" wrote:

"bozz_2006" wrote:

"bozz_2006" wrote:

"bozz_2006" wrote:

Living in ND, I know exactly what you mean about all the Vikings fans, and I agree that living among them and being the only Packers fan makes me even more proud. I have a few friends that claim they are Packers fans, but then on Mondays every once in awhile they will ask who we played and if we won, so I pretty much consider myself the only Packers fan, which I am completely okay with.
You and I were hooked at a similar age. I started liking them in 6th grade, so it was 2 years after the SB (bozz was a year off).
Brett Favre played a major role for me as well in solidifying my fandom, and I think that's why it hurt so bad when he kept waffling and inevitably left. I'm proud to say however that I never put it on the Packers, that I put it on him. His head was too big, and it was time that he left Green Bay.

Funny little side note: the day that the Vikings signed Brett Favre was the day after my nephew, bozz's child, was born. We were listening to ESPN in his wife's room when we heard it lol. It was all we could do to not scream the F word.

"peteralan71" wrote: