Panty-waists go home!

As a man, born and raised in the heartland of America during an era when it once again became "cool" to be patriotic and enthusiastic about BEING American, I am forced to voice these words to the World at Large...

Go PACKERS!

That's right, I am cheering on the last vestige of a once proud small-town American tradition that dates back to the 1890, and one that the Green Bay Packers have been playing since 1896. They are the third oldest team in the NFL (behind only Chicago and the Cardinals, and then only by one year), they have more national championship titles than any other team (12), they have more players in the Hall of Fame than any other team, they are part of the oldest and most heated rivalry in professional sports (Packers vs Bears), and they are the ONLY community-owned franchise in football history.

Most importantly, this is a team that boasts the most dedicated and supportive fan base in professional sports today. No other team has maintained a "sold-out" seating status every single year they have ever fielded a team in the NFL (and that's 88 years), even though they have managed to field some of the worst teams in NFL history. No matter how badly this team has played (and any fan will tell you they had some BAD seasons), the stadium sold out, the lot was full of tail-gaters, and the broadcasts were watched like they were covering the Second Coming.

Names associated with this team are also associated with the very institution of Football itself: Curly Lambeau, George Calhoun, George Hallas (yes, you read it right!), Bart Starr, Ray Nitschke, Forrest Gregg, James Lofton, Jan Stenerud, Don Hutson... but none so great as Vince Lombardi himself. A coach of such ability and magnitude that the entire League determined that the man who won the first to Superbowls... and three Chanpionships before that... should have his named memorialized on the very Trophy he christened... the coveted Lombardi Trophy.

This is the team that is now only ONE game away from it's 6th Superbowl appearance and its 19th Championship game, with one of the single greatest quaterbacks to ever play the game leading them on.

How can a guy like Ryan... who disdains football as a passtime for coarse, beer-swilling, ball-scratching intellectual trogladites... not see the storied tradition that follows this team in all its successes and failures? The Cardinals had Pat Tillman, who gave his life for his country after the invasion of Afghanistan... but the Packers had no fewer than 11 active roster players either enlist or re-enlist after 9-11, two of which have carried a giant American flag out onto the field before each game at Lambeau Field in Green Bay that carries the names of local soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines that are serving abroad.

I get misty every time I think of the tradition that follows this organization, and anyone that isn't touched by it (like RYAN) must be a union-card-carrying, pinko commie FAG that HATES America and swears at his MOTHER and still pisses the bed at night under his "Princess Jasmine" comforter.

Ryan...

Real men watch FOOTBALL!

I love the PACKERS!