Week 6 — NFL TV Maps

 

Vince in Our Nation’s Capitol

We’re still figuring out the changes to Blogger's system, and we are posting this to see how it goes. Green Bay Packers Head Coach Vince Lombardi stepped down from that role on February 1, 1968 to become the team’s general manager only. By most accounts, this was a terrible mistake — the better move would’ve been to hire a GM and concentrate on being coach only. But the Packers were aging and after winning three championships in a row (1965-67), the only place to go was down. A challenge would be to build another winner, in another city. In February 1969, Lombardi was offered and accepted the positions of head coach and general manager for the Washington (then “Redskins”) Football Team. This was only to last for one 7-5-2 season until cancer gripped him in the summer of 1970 before what would’ve been his second training camp with that franchise. The greatest coach in NFL history (we’re biased) passed away on September 3, 1970.

Here we present a cover story from the July 28, 1969 issue of Sports Illustrated about that first summer in Washington, when all was positive and the sports world was watching to see if Lombardi could work the same magic that he had in Green Bay from 1959-1967.

This issue is part of the Packerville Archives, and was originally owned by Sports Illustrated subscriber Gerald Burkard of Green Bay, Wisconsin. Because we always have to know more, we searched to see if we could find this gentleman. We found his obituary which showed that he passed away just last year (2019) at the age of 93 — still a resident of his hometown. He was a Packers season ticket holder, and “was proud to say that he attended the historic Ice Bowl” on December 31, 1967. If his family should come across this, his copy of Sports Illustrated will be preserved safely in our archives for years to come in his honor.

Packers at Buccaneers Capsule

Week 4 — Falcons at Packers

COVID in NFL Home Markets

An interesting graph that shows the levels that COVID-19 has infected NFL home markets. This is the one category in which the Green Bay Packers do not want to lead the rest of the league. We can do much better, N.E. Wisconsin!

Blog Update

A NOTE TO OUR READERS:

With Google's changes to how the blogs are formatted, we’re going to take some time off posting quality materials here until we can get some of it figured out. Apparently, their goal was to make things look worse and be much more frustrating, and they have succeeded. In case you've wondered why we’ve just been sharing our social media posts here on the blog lately, this is why. We have been doing this blog since 2007, and only within the last six months did we reach the point where we felt that we had things all figured out and could make posts look like we wanted.

For the immediate future, we are going to put the long form historical posts on our Facebook page, which has a link button down on the right of this blog. Instagram and Twitter are extremely limited as to the posting of more than a few photos. Stick with us. We should have the blog formatting figured out in another 13 years or so. 

To show you how bad Google screwed up their Blogger system, we've posted an image from their “help” section. This is not a doctored image (other than the red arrow). The last step when you can’t figure things out on your own is suicide prevention.

Falcons at Packers Capsule

Source: NFL

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