arty: "Family Night" Resembles Regular Season Game
by Jeff Fedotin, Packers.com
posted 08/06/2005
The Lambeau Field crowd whooped and hollered as Packers linebacker Ray Thompson blitzed through the B gap toward the quarterback. Instead of drilling the Bills player between the numbers, he let up.
"At that point," he said. "I realized it was a scrimmage."
Other than the thud rules dictating linemen could hit each other but not the quarterbacks, Friday night's "Family Night" scrimmage at Lambeau Field between the Buffalo Bills and the Green Bay Packers seemed like a regular-season game.
The crowd set a Family Night attendance record with 62,492 fans, and many lined the streets more than two hours before the start of the practice session. Chants of "Go Pack Go!" reverberated around the stadium.
"When I ran onto the field, the juices were going," said quarterback Aaron Rodgers, who attended the University of California, Berkeley. "This is what I was missing in college. This atmosphere and the love that people have for football around here is unbelievable
by Jeff Fedotin, Packers.com
posted 08/06/2005
The Lambeau Field crowd whooped and hollered as Packers linebacker Ray Thompson blitzed through the B gap toward the quarterback. Instead of drilling the Bills player between the numbers, he let up.
"At that point," he said. "I realized it was a scrimmage."
Other than the thud rules dictating linemen could hit each other but not the quarterbacks, Friday night's "Family Night" scrimmage at Lambeau Field between the Buffalo Bills and the Green Bay Packers seemed like a regular-season game.
The crowd set a Family Night attendance record with 62,492 fans, and many lined the streets more than two hours before the start of the practice session. Chants of "Go Pack Go!" reverberated around the stadium.
"When I ran onto the field, the juices were going," said quarterback Aaron Rodgers, who attended the University of California, Berkeley. "This is what I was missing in college. This atmosphere and the love that people have for football around here is unbelievable
Could be a tough year for my Pack.
Defense is average at best.........OL with holes..........and Brett a young older.
Believe you will see the ROGERS era kick in late in the season........although I hope Brett has a good year and keeps his starting streak alive throughout the entire season.
-FISH-
Defense is average at best.........OL with holes..........and Brett a young older.
Believe you will see the ROGERS era kick in late in the season........although I hope Brett has a good year and keeps his starting streak alive throughout the entire season.
-FISH-
ppeter said:
Got that right!!!!! Even my seriously hobbled Titans managed to lay a giant size arse whupping on the cheese heads last year...I think we broke the record for the largest beat down ever laid down on the packers in their own home!
hmmmm!!!! If only the AFC was filled with a bunch of pansy teams!!!!
Last year during a Packers game they showed a guy (at the game) who was #1 on their waiting list for season tickets. He got on the list in 1970 (the year I was born!)!!
The Jaguars had a scrimmage at the stadium Friday night and about 5000 showed up. The stadium seats about 76,000 and they are "covering up" 10,000 seats this year (with permission from the NFL) so they can, hopefully, sellout and not have blackouts this year. College football kills the Jaguars. UF is about 90 miles away and FSU is about 150 miles away. Many, including myself, would rather do the college thing than the NFL.
The Jaguars had a scrimmage at the stadium Friday night and about 5000 showed up. The stadium seats about 76,000 and they are "covering up" 10,000 seats this year (with permission from the NFL) so they can, hopefully, sellout and not have blackouts this year. College football kills the Jaguars. UF is about 90 miles away and FSU is about 150 miles away. Many, including myself, would rather do the college thing than the NFL.
Although the Lambeau mystique has died in recent years, you can't say it hasn't been a huge factor prior to that. Remember when they used to play a few games in Milwaukee each year. Their record there was almost unbeatable. Maybe they should go back to scheduling games in that stadium in the future.
