Have the Green Bay Packers Become too Hollywood?

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LA. New York City. Miami. Dallas. Green Bay. Wait what??!! GREEN BAY!!?? That city just doesn’t fit into a category with those other four glitzy and glamorous destintions. Green Bay is a wee small town with NOTHING to do except drink beer, watch the Packers, obsess about the Packers and basically let the Packers consume your entire life much like video game nerds that sit in their chairs for hours playing Call of Duty

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 without a pee break (you know who you are out there). Green Bay fans are known as common folk, not flashy, easygoing and generally go about their business in a very nonchalant way. But something happened in 2009, you may have heard of it, the Packers defeated the Steelers (ahhh feels good saying that again) in Super Bowl 45 and finally laid waste to the devastating divorce from diva Brett Faavvvvvra’s era of deceit, destruction, sexting and general creepiness. Last year the Packers had a 15-1 miracle season despite one of the worst Defenses in the HISTORY of the NFL, but it was all smoke and mirrors as the big bad New York Football Giants came into town and pasted the Pack 37-20 at Lambeau. So now I must pose this question to Cheesehead nation…. Have the Green Bay Packers become TOO Hollywood?!

Despite the Packers winning the first two Super Bowls, Green Bay has never been known as a flashy town. Throughout their history they have basically kept their team together through the Draft and the occasional free agent here and there to boost the team. Only Reggie White has come into town with Guns Blazing, creating a media frenzy the Packers had never seen before. And all he did was lead the Pack to a victory over the New England Patriots in Super Bowl 31. Other than that, (except for an AWFUL cameo by #4 In There’s Something About Mary), the Pack have basically went about their business, recently in the Ted Thompson era hitting home run after home run in the Draft (Clay Mathews, B.J. Raji, Aaron Rodgers) and getting game changing free agents on the relative cheap (Charles Woodson). Now that Cheesehead Nation has tasted ultimate success, the Packers have turned into Keeping

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up with the Kardashians, using their star power for personal gain and wealth.

Shortly after the Super Bowl victory, you could see Mr. Rodgers in that hilarious State Farm Commercial, making fun of himself with the “Discount Double Check,” routine. Then defensive tackle B.J. Raji comes in to the

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 sequel and shakes his butt like no other large man can. But wait, Clay Mathews and his hair decided they wanted a piece, so he shows up for the third chapter (which wasn’t funny at all). Then the unthinkable happened. The Packers all-time leading receiver and general good guy Donald Driver goes and wins Dancing with the Stars!!!! UNBELIEVABLE!!!!! What once was a hard-nosed, tough, grind it out football team has now traded in their

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iron cleats for short skirts and pom poms all for the sake of making an extra buck in endorsement deals.  For the first time, I’m actually worried about my Green Bay Packers.

I do understand that not everyone on the team is like this. But the worst thing a champion can do is buying into their own hype. The Packers have made it look relatively easy the last two years, beating almost anyone and everyone that has come into their path.  A certain level of confidence or shall I dare say arrogance is permitted, but now this team seems to have taken it to a whole new level. It’s like the feeling an average guy gets when he somehow ropes and brainwashes a really hot girl to

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 date him that’s way out of his league.

For the 2013 Green Bay Packers, the theme should be getting back to the basics. Get back to the old Packer team that could annihilate each and every team then forget about it and move on to the next victim. Trade in your Pom Poms, short skirts, Maybelline makeup and get into your Terminator costume and mow down anything and everything that gets in your path. This I beg of you Cheesehead Nation.

 Neal Buenz