Speaking of Packers kickoff returns, let’s not forget 1967! Rookie Travis Williams, I believe, returned four of them for TDs, including two in the same game against the Cleveland Browns, which was a 55-7 victory. He averaged 41.7 yards per return.
Williams’ average remains the franchise single-season career to this day.
Peter from Cincinnati, OH
“They were also 4-8 with a nine-point fourth-quarter deficit against the three-win Bears. When this season has taken its turns, those turns have been super sharp.” I like this term, for turns, “super sharp,” in my experience they tend to be meaningful. Let’s face it, Packerland is wondering if this one is the ticket to SB 57. Do you think that getting so close and failing in the last two years is helpful?
I think this journey has reinforced that what matters most is getting in the playoffs and seeing what happens. The Packers had byes in each of the past three seasons, and it wasn’t enough to make that leap to the Super Bowl. Maybe a callback to the 2010 run is just what the doctor ordered? But any hopes for a playoff rush are contingent on Sunday night – survive and advance.
Danny from Chattanooga, TN
One last point about the Jaguars-Titans game tonight, and not Sunday night: If the Patriots, Dolphins, and Steelers all lose then the Jags would be in the playoffs win or lose.
With respect to all the AFC teams, I have a difficult enough time doing NFC math that I haven’t really paid too much attention to the scenarios in the other conference. I’m taking the Pa Hod approach to the AFC – I’ll check my phone after Packers-Lions wraps up and see who made it in.
I think we need to stop kidding ourselves that math isn’t allowed in the Inbox. There’s math in the Inbox, usually accompanying a reference to the ban on math, almost every single day. If anything, we’ve come full circle and math is now *encouraged* in the Inbox.
We have a love/hate relationship with math. It’s like marriage with the occasional decimal involved.
I just watched the LEGO replay of last Sunday’s game. I wrote in on Tuesday that I didn’t know Rodgers played the bass guitar. (I noted that during AJ Dillon’s touchdown celebration.) The Lego people caught that, too, putting the bass in his hands. I guess someone over there is paying attention.
We have so many talented people in our video, social and digital departments. After hearing that we were doing a LEGO video this week, I had a permanent grin on my face. That’s exactly what we needed after such a heavy week.
I became engaged over the holidays. Who can I contact to book the Green Bay Packer Air Orchestra to play at my wedding?
Congratulations! We’ll get you in touch with our invisible conductor.
Everyone is talking about why the Packers have turned the season around. Christian Watson and Nixon bringing big-play explosiveness, the defense creating turnovers, Rodgers’ thumb healing, cold weather football. I think people outside the II don’t understand the biggest factor though. Those of us here daily reading the II know that the turnaround is all because of one thing. The man, the myth, the legend, and the poet! Dean. Thanks for writing again, Dean, and saving the season.
Dean is the real (Inbox) MVP.
Derek from Eau Claire, WI
Both less and more than a game,
As frightening as this week started, I am so thankful to read all the positive updates on Damar Hamlin, including the removal of his breathing tube and his address of the Bills on FaceTime Friday. God is good.
Dean from Leavenworth, IN
The final chapter? Not yet written
Left for dead five weeks ago the Packers have risen
Destiny and the future firmly in your grasp
Your foe will not quit nor go gentle into the night
Stay the course and give no quarter Green and Gold
One more round at Lambeau for the 2022-23 season. I can think of no better way to end it than a win catapulting this improbable run into the playoffs. Enjoy the game, everybody.
