I’m staring to identify with how New England Patriots fans felt circa Sept. 8, 2008. While my star quarterback’s season hasn’t come to an abrupt end (not yet, anyway), those of so many other Green Bay Packers have.
It’s a tough pill to swallow when an injury or injuries derail would very well could have been a Super Bowl season.
The season still is fairly young, so I’m not conceding anything just yet. After all, 3-2 isn’t a horrible place to be (just ask the 49ers or Bills, who probably would love to be 3-2 right now). But after losing two of three, and looking like crap in a two-point win over Detroit, to say my confidence in the Packers has taken a hit would be like saying Joe Theismann took a hit from Lawrence Taylor in 1985.
While no Packers injuries have been as devastating as Theismann’s broken leg, mounting injuries to starters — Ryan Grant, Nick Barnett, Clay Matthews, Jermichael Finley, among others — some of which are season-ending, have fans asking, “What’s next?”
I’m well aware that sympathy around these parts (especially considering the Packers will visit Foxboro in late December) is something I won’t find, and I’m not asking for any.
But as fans of a team that lost its season in Week 1 a couple years ago when Bernard Pollard, inadvertently, destroyed Tom Brady’s knee, my hope is that Patriots faithful can, at the very least, empathize.
After all, injuries hurt fans, too.
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EMPATHY!??! You've got to be kidding me? What person in this region in their right mind would give you even the slightest bit of empathy?
This is what you wrote in The Daily News four days after the injury:
"As I eagerly await the arrival of my Bernard Pollard Fan Club T-shirt (www.believemerch.com), I can’t help but wonder if the Patriots still are a tiny bit better than the Jets — at least for now."
Bernard Pollard Fan Club, huh?
Good luck finding empathy this side of the Mississippi, Cheesehead.
Time healed Tom Brady's wound, but apparently time hasn't, and perhaps won't, heal the wounds Patriots fans endured in 2008 when their season and quarterback went down in a heap in Week 1.
I'll admit, I deserved that response. But I don't regret taking some joy in Brady's knee injury, and by no means was I alone. Outside New England, Sept. 7, 2008 was like a national holiday.
Man, it's like only people who have been paid to write for this paper comment on the blog.
I'm hoping Josh is feeling better this week because Favre came up short.
Ah, the storyline that just keeps giving.
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