My Favorite Mic’d Up Clips Are A LIE

Today is December 20th, 2024. On this day in 1997, the Packers played the Buffalo Bills in Green Bay. It was 21-0 at the end of the first half and the team’s two biggest stars in Brett Favre and Reggie White got benched to get some rest for the playoffs. But this isn’t the game that I’m writing about. In fact, it took me two hours to find that out.

Let me back up.

Earlier today, the top post on the Green Bay Packers subreddit was a video containing the famous Brett Favre mic’d up moment of “You know what, Andy? I love you, man.”

However, this version contained way more context than I’ve ever seen before. Andy mentions he’s about to get chewed out and then head coach Mike Holmgren does indeed…