Are You Ready for Some Tanking?

Should the Packers tank their season?

It’s an interesting dilemma, this tanking business, one worth breaking down a bit as our football team stands like a deer in the middle of a dark road, frozen by the lights of an oncoming semi.

(Some of you are probably thinking, “I did not come here for this. Can’t we just talk about how to dismember Joe Barry while he’s still alive?” But hang with me.)

On the “no” side of the ledger are all the obvious things we believe about pride and dignity and professionalism. It’s a bit like a contract: Professionals are paid to win, and they take pride in providing maximum effort in the service of winning. And fans, who help foot the bill and derive civic pride…