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Citizen wrote:I began cheering for the Packers right after Lombardi left, which meant living and dying with 25 years of dysfunction, incompetence, and complacency. The ensuing quarter century has more than made up for the anguish.
That sound familiar. First season I recall was '71, then Devine traded Donny Anderson for Mac Lane and that '72 season with the big back backfield. In '73, my mom bought a pocket paperback of "Instant Replay" for me and it was all over for me. Spent much of my time at the public library in the 796s of the non-fiction stacks after that - not many Packer games on TV in northeast Iowa in the '70s.
I sort of had the opposite experience. I was a Packer fan during the late Lambeau years, through Ronzani, Blackbourn, and McLean. Then I went off to college and they hired Lombardi
