I certainly take the 2 titles, but it is pretty difficult to say with 2 Hall of Famers over 30 years this is a great success. Particularly Rodgers having only been to 1....it is not his talent that was the issue. Poor play in the playoffs, rarely scoring more than 21 points. In fact only the niners game in 2013, 31 points and Tampa, 26 points did the offense score more than 21. It is pretty difficult to say these were all successful seasons as these teams were built for championships. Aaron Rodgers has been to 1 Super Bowl, Brady has been to 10.

I remember when I graduated from UW-Madison I went to an interview with a company in Eau Claire and said how happy I was to be up north. I was run out of the room.
Apparently, US Hwy 8, not US Hwy 29 as the author suggests, is the delineation line in those parts.

Hell, Ron Wolf called the SB Win by that Favre team a "Fart in the wind"...

Blame Ron Wolf...HE, started all the complaining!!

Cory, you lost me at "That also includes coaches, including Matt LaFleur, who opted to kick a 26-yard field goal on fourth-and-goal from the 8 with 2:05 left with the Packers down eight in the 2020 NFC Championship Game. "

What would you do in MLF position? Allow 4th throw in the row to double or triple covered Davante. Heck, FPQB tried 3 time in the row to well covered DA instead to toss the ball to open WR (Lazard inside 5 yard line alone), or open runing lane from 7 yards for QB for TD that left open and unused.

That decision was what every coach would do. Because Packers needed TD and 2 POINTS conversion just to make game equal. That was rightful decision at that moment in which Packers D kept Tampa bay offense almost scoreless, expecting to get ball quickly back to Packers O.

FPQB made from that decision sign how Packers did not respects him. Hell they didn't, 150 mill $ times proved they respected him. But get nozhing from him. Absolutely nothing.

I also supose that QBs are allowed to disrespect their HC and HC jobs by not doing what they asked from QB. Because every change of called play on line of scrimnage just because you do not like that play, or, what is more often with FPQB, QB thinks he knows better.

We saw the result. The result is whinnig FPQB like baby about respect that everyone should show to him, while he is not man enough to show respect to his coleagues players, or coaches or FO or to the Packers. That shows cowardness, selfishnes and immature of FPQB.

So, despite your title suggests, I do not have need or power to change history or to forget it, just to correctly understand it.

It’s a win to get 2 Hall of Fame QBs in a row. That the organization should be proud of. Getting one Superbowl win each is a pretty poor return given such talent and longevity.

I think, had we looked at this in 2012, we might have seen things differently, but the ensuing decade has been a string of missed opportunities and poor management decisions from the very top. No, I don’t celebrate that.

Achieving a 2-1 SB record with back-to-back HOF QB's is a widely accepted acclaim for Packer fans, but the sting of not having more, especially when the table was set to do so, will not go away. The stings are a painful reminder of recent failures, all coming under the TT and Gute regimes, with Rodgers at the helm on the field. This is not to neglect the poor coaching decisions of both MM and MLF, and their obvious bad decisions to take away the opportunity to get to the SB, and deny the teams the chance to, at worst, lose in the SB, which would be a removal of some of the sting.

I'm pretty sure the Bills fans wanted at least 1-SB win Corry. The Bills remind me a lot of the Packers over the Favre/ Rodgers eras. Really good teams that unfortunately find a way to let big games slip away in a variety of ways that leave your jaw on the floor in the way things unwind to the amazement....that you are left with..."you just cannot make-up" the way in which the team loses. Ok enough of that. On the flip side, I'm really looking forward to a Jordan Love era with a pretty solid young team around him. I think GB makes some noise and make the playoffs in 2023. I think we are an Offensive Juggernaut in 2024 and go to the show. Let's get it done GB. GPG

thank you phantom.
I too am looking forward to 2023 and beyond.
Expectations only include Lombardi like focus on the single goal of the TEAM out executing the opponent during every play.
Team first - me last.
GPG!

'And I guarantee you that Bills fans are not complaining about what might have been. '

Not sure how you can guarantee this!

I would bet there is plenty of complaining on coming up short four times.

Minnie probably complains as well.

When it feels like the Packers played to their potential, it's satisfying.
When it feels like there's dysfunction holding back the team, there's a feeling that is dissatisfying, even sickening.
Unfortunately, it seems our two hall-of-fame quarterbacks were the cause of much dysfunction at the end of their careers.
Whatever their personal accomplishments, it seems Favre and Rodgers both began to underachieve as leaders. Both seemed to get lazy, and both seemed to become arrogant as far as doing too much of their own thing.
The result is that both superstars let down the Packers again and again in the latter half of their tenures with the team, becoming the fault line around which the Packers cracked and crumbled under pressure in crunch time.
In an NFC Championship Game disappointment against the Eagles (after the Packers defense gave up the infamous 4th-and-26), Favre heaved a high pass up for grabs in overtime that was intercepted. His intentions still seem mystifying and maddening.
With Rodgers, perhaps the most painful memory of playoff frustration is that late throw of futility into double coverage toward Davante against the 49ers, while Lazard was crossing absolutely wide open in the middle of the field.
While there are plenty of wonderful memories of both quarterbacks in their first years with the Packers, it's sad to say the record afterward seems checkered, with lots of headache and heartbreak mixed in with the good.
It's hard to accept the resulting missed opportunities due to egotistic quarterbacks who were the initiators of team dysfunction.
If I'm being too hard on our heroes, I'd be glad for other fans to give me reasons to feel better about them.

Swisch, the actions of true heroes can stand up to critical evaluation.
I believe our 2 hof qb's fall dreadfully short of being called heroes.
Exciting, memorable - absolutely.
Heroes? - see Roberto Clemente, Pat Tillman, Jesse Owens, Roger Maris, Henry Aaron just to name a few.
No comparison.
I wonder what our grandchildren will know and think of our 2 hof'ers 50 years from now?
GPG!

Lol, Cory, I loved the "Up North" 'debate'. I still can't get used to the people here in Tucson (I moved here from Wisconsin in 2005) asking me if I plan on going "Back EAST" anytime soon. When I say Wisconsin is in the MIDWEST they don't seem to get it. :)

I think I have a perspective on just where "Up North" begins. Some say Highway 29 while others say U.S. 8.

I grew up in Antigo and today live in Rhinelander. To someone in southern Wisconsin Highway 29 seems like the Northwoods, but it isn't. It's lots of farms with some trees, streams and lake here and there.

Highway 8 is too far into the Northwoods to be the start of the Northwoods. Rhinelander sits on Highway 8.

I maintain the Northwoods begins north of Highway 64 which runs from Marinette through Antigo and Merrill. North of 64 you see the beginnings of most think of as the Northwoods. The farms begin to fade away.

Of course if you live in the Northwoods long enough you realize that many folks in the Badger state see Wisconsin as being south of a line from Green Bay to La Crosse. North of there they see that area as "Vacationland" or a place they won't go as it's too far from what's hot and trendy.

Lombardi & the 60's Packers set the winning bar attitude awfully high. That is a good thing!! So many NFL teams lack that "high winning bar" attitude & feeling nor how to sustain it. Expectations are always high in GB and as well they should be.

The team lost it's way for a few decades. Like lemmings, the team did what the rest of the league. Trends to hire, former players: few of years hiring college coaches, then OC coaches, then DC coaches all in vogue at the time. Doing whatever the rest of the league was doing.

Finally new club Presidents and a return to draft & develop. Best path for this small market team. It still is. The last step to separate the GM & HC roles. 2 SB's in 30 some years is okay, for most NFL teams. Not the Pack, remember the 60's high bar. Very tough to keep everyone focused on the high bar goal, from front office to on field personnel, not just talking points. This year's organization seems to have the focus back, with spirit, talent, energy, enthusiasm. Winning isn't everything, it is the only thing. GPG!!

Highway 29 = North of the tension zone. But every year it inches further north. Te Menominee Rez. Is very up-north feeling.

I always thought up north depended on where you are at the time. If it’s north of where you are, it’s up north!

Loved growing up in the Great Northwoods, loved the freedom. I was raised as a "free-range" child and there's no way you could give a kid that much freedom these days.

But when I was 21, the Army showed me Texas. About my 3rd day there, I was driving down the road at 80, drinking a LoneStar, and had a loaded weapon on the seat next to me. And I wasn't breaking any laws at all, and I said "Oh, Hell Yes". So I headed down to Texas after I'd served my time in the military, used my GI
Bill to finish college, and lived here for the next 40 years. Sadly, they have enacted laws that prohibit a lot of the things that made this such an attractive place to me, but this gorgeous sunshine is awesome. I do not miss the cold and snow at all.