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A New Beginning

The Rodgers Era Begins

Replacing a Legend

Whatever cliche you want to use to headline the first start of Aaron Rodgers career, and the first start by any QB not named Favre since 1910, works for us, but the bottom line is…it’s on.

Whether it’s Lynn Dickey, Don Majkowski, or Aaron Rodgers, the opponent and the emotion remains the same and seldom if ever has the rivalry with the Minnesota VIkings been this hot.  After an offseason of mud throwing back and forth over state lines, the two will meet on Monday Night Football in front of the nation to deliver the first punch of the 2008-2009 season.

Minnesota has been doing it’s usual trash talking.  The Williams brothers and Jerrod Allen have been yapping like dogs at a mailman already about destroying Mr. Rodgers neighborhood.  Like last year the Packers haven’t fallen for the bait and remain silent, quietly filling their the locker room bulletin board.  Both teams enter this game beaten up and with quite a bit of uncertainty.  Unproven QBs, banged up secondaries, and pressure abound, this is one game that no one should bet on.  The Packers are favored by 2.5 (how do you score half a point again), but perhaps never in either franchises history has there been this many questions going into the opener.

Packer Addict will be at the game and will provide reaction tomorrow once we wake up from a night of excess beer drinking, hopefully celebrating Packer glory.