I have a great friend that lives three doors up in my suburban Bay Area neighborhood who is originally from Milwaukee. He loves his “hometown” teams; in baseball that is the Milwaukee Brewers, in basketball it is the Bucks and his most passionate love for a team is with the National Football League Green Bay Packers.
You can imagine that Terry, we’ll call him that because that is his name, was quite pleased last week when he found I was predicting a big game for his underdog Packers against the visiting Indianapolis Colts. He basked in the day that saw Green Bay rush for a record 164 yards in the first quarter while building up a 10-0 lead. By the end of the first half the Packers running game had amassed 237 yards and limited the Colts offense like Indianapolis forgot to bring their game plan.
Still, despite the bulge in statistics, the Packers didn’t add to their 10-0 first quarter lead on the scoreboard and were outscored in the second half 10-6 enroute to a 16-10 home victory.
Time for Terry to celebrate.
Times up.
The Packers quick start last week was the product of a motivational boost where they thought they were in big trouble after suffering a loss on the scoreboard to the Philadelphia Eagles and even more debilitating, the loss of Jordan Love for at least a few weeks with a strained Achilles.