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I don't give two shakes for decorum!

She will be promised payment that is never delivered.

The ridiculousness there is deliberate.

They were free to make it. They made it. They decided it would be better (for them? for the world? who knows?) not to release it.

I know why they're both called that, I just think that it's weird. Animals are well-precedented in sports mascottery. Musical genres and professions (the team was sponsored by the Indian Meat Packing company back in the '20s) on the other hand aren't.

Dez Bryant still plays for Dallas right? And…the tight end…is it Jason Whitten? And some really fast slot guy (I'm not thinking of anyone in particular, just the guy who the Packers always make look like a super star).

Let's not go around saying "he usually loses." He's been hampered with Dom Capers and the Incredibly Bad Defense (not to mention the year of the incredibly inept Special Teams) for years now. The Packers lose.

So you get to watch your favorite team roll over a hapless team AND play with a golden retriever puppy?

I mean, right? Look at what it took for you to get to the last straw—they literally destroyed your team. Short of that, you were still on board.

It only sounds that bad because it's new. At least it's an animal. Compared to "the Utah Jazz" or, my favorite team, "the Green Bay Packers," it's downright conventional.

I think of him as "to blame" but not really "the problem." Their crushing defeats were only crushing because he was good enough to get the stakes that high.

I prefer Fox to CBS, but I'm also a fan of an NFC team, so they just always seemed better—robots and all.

As much as I loved the Dirty Bird dance, God that was a boring Super Bowl.

They're scrappy and tough enough to make it close, but also coached by Andy Reid enough to not actually be a threat to win.

Are you a Niners fan? Because you could also root for Dallas to lose (although…do Niners fans hate Dallas or Green Bay more? Probably depends on your age).

I get that, but whether or not they have a team in LA or two seems irrelevant, as the games will always be blacked out locally because the stadium is only a quarter full.

The Packers defense is a joke though. If the Giants receivers had managed to stop dropping balls (presumably because they were shocked at how open they were) that game goes very differently.

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It's perfectly valid to sports-hate someone for being talented and successful.

I like Romo, but on some level that's because I love how he was just good enough to really make his inevitable fuck up and the Cowboys collapse all the sweeter.