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I've been a Packer's fan since I was about 14 years old.
People ask me why. Am I from Wisconsin? No. Did I get hooked during the glory years of Lombardi and Bart Starr? Nope. When I started liking them, they had recently become awful and they stayed pretty awful for a long time. I lived through Scott Hunter. Randy Wright. David Whitehurst. If you were a Packer fan, you would know what sad stories I am evoking.
I picked the Packers because I was late, relatively speaking, in deciding to care at all about pro football. Most of my friends were Giants fans. I didn't want to follow the pack so I followed the Pack.
Eventually, in the nineties, after decades of suffering, they got a lot better. But I still managed to miss having a positive Super Bowl experience, even when the Packers were having one. I'll tell that story today.
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