OK, OK, maybe I have a little something against the Packers
January 18th, 2008 at 05:18pm Thomas V. Bona
This morning I was mocked by coworkers for my kind words about the Packers. One said, “You’re from New York, be an obnoxious New Yorker!”
Fine. Here are the top 5 reasons New York is better than Green Bay:
5. You can get good Wisconsin cheese in New York. You can get good *anything* in New York. You can’t get good New York pastrami in Wisconsin (or Rockford, for that matter).
4. The Packers talk about all their championships, but they’ve only won 1 in the last 25 years. The Giants have won 2.
3. 27 Hall of Famers have played on the Giants. Only 26 have played on the Packers (Note: It’s closer than I originally thought. But the point remains, New York is where you go to become famous).
2. Vince Lombardi, as great as he was, could only get a coordinator job in New York. He had to go to Green Bay to get a head coaching gig.
1. I mean, seriously, what else has come from Green Bay?
Have fun, everybody
Entry Filed under: New Yorker, New York Giants, Green Bay Packers
2 Comments Add your own
1. Matt Trowbridge | January 18th, 2008 at 10:14 pm
Only a New York fan would use Hall of Famers to count which team is best. ManyNew York Hall of Famers are honored mostly because they played in New York. I mean, Sam Huff? Sad thing is, he is probably the best-ever Giants middle linebacker, but he’d be about 18th-best on the Bears. Phil Rizzuto is a Hall of Famer too, and he hit about as well as Juan Uribe. It’s a wonder Jeff Hostetler isn’t in the Hall of Fame. The Packers have a far, far, far better football history than the New York Football Giants — see, they can’t even get an original name — who played their most famous game in tennis shoes (winning a title because their opponents wore cleats and kept slipping on the ice). Maybe they should try that again. Secret shoes that don’t slip in bad weather is the G-Men’s only chance of winning Sunday. — Matt Trowbridge
2. Another displaced NYer | January 19th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
Thomas, you ROCK! Nothing bugs Midwesterners like NY superiority… pizza, hot dogs, skyscrapers, you name it! They can’t stand the truth!
Can you believe that list of reasons Kevin Haas had the nerve to publish why The Cheese is better than the Big Apple? Rooting for the team from Wisconsin is almost as bad as rooting for the team that plays in Jersey.. but at least they are a New York team!
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