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Originally Posted by Megatron96
Lol, guess you don't remember GB before Favre. GB went from 1973 to 1988 without a double-digit win season, fourteen years during that stretch where they didn't have a winning season, and the stands were packed every Sunday.
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Lynn Dickey, James Lofton, John Jefferson, Paul Coffman. They, among others on other teams, were all some of the guys me and my friends would "emulate"/call out when playing kill the man with the ball, growing up.
They were never on the level that the '90s Bengals and current Browns were on.
Lambeau Field has been sold out on a season-ticket basis since 1961, but let's take 1986, for example. The Packers averaged more than 5,000 no-shows in both Green Bay and Milwaukee. There were nearly 10,000 no-shows when they played division rival Minnesota at Lambeau on a 32-degree, early December day. Let's also take a look at what happened with the old intra-squad game, a great Packers tradition dating to 1933. It was a big draw, much like Family Night is today. In 1973, the intra-squad game drew a sellout crowd of 56,263 and fans were turned away at the gate. By Bart Starr's third season as coach, 1977, the event had been turned into a scrimmage and attendance plummeted to 12,000. The next year it was moved to the practice field. When Lindy Infante arrived in 1988, the scrimmage was being held in Lambeau again but drew 2,000 people.
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