Will Packers Activate Quickie This Weekend?

Fan pressure mounting to activate Donald Driver for this weekend's game againt the 49ers.

Some Green Bay Packers fans have started a Facebook page called Activate Donald Driver, presumably aimed at getting the Packers to put Driver on their active roster this weekend.  Read more at JSOnline.

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Video of the Day: Birth of a Team and a Legend

We hope you enjoy his short look back at one of, if not the greatest franchise in sports history.  In putting this together we learned a lot of things about the Packers we never knew.

On August 11, 1919, a score (20) or more husky young athletes, called together by Curly Lambeau and George Calhoun, gathered in the dingy editorial room of the old Green Bay Press-Gazette building on Cherry Street and organized a football team.  At the time, and obviously they did not know it, but that was the beginning of the incredible, gloried legend of the Green Bay Packers. 

Lambeau and Calhoun struck the initial spark a few weeks before, during a casual street-corner conversation. It was apparently a "Why not get up a football team?" remark, but once they were interested, they wasted no time.  Read more…

Here is a look at the humble origin of this sports legend.  Rather arcane by today’s standards.  Today's high school l teams are better equipped than these guys were.

It’s All on The Line Saturday Night: Let's Get Ready to Rumble!!

“Winning is not a sometime thing, it is an all the time thing. You don’t do things right once in a while…you do them right all the time.  Unless a man believes in himself and makes a total commitment to his career and puts everything he has into it – his mind, his body, and his heart – what’s life worth to him?”

—Vince Lombardi

Obviously Coach Lombardi never met Barrack Obama.

The Packers are 7.5-point favorites at home over the Minnesota Vikings in this Saturday night's opening-round playoff game for the George Hallis Trophy.

With a record of (11-5, 7-1 home) the Pack takes on the Vikings (10-6, 3-5 away) at Lambeau Field on Saturday, January 5  in the NFC Wild Card round. This will be the third meeting between these teams since December 2nd. The Packers won the first 23-14 at home, while the Vikings came back with a 37-34 victory on December 30th in a game they had to have to make the playoffs. Odds makers in Las Vegas have placed  Green Bay as an 8-point favorite over Minnesota with a total set of 46 points.  Bleacher Report blog offers these 10 keys to the game for Green Bay.

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