TO OUR READERS

It is with regret that I inform you that ThaPack.com will no longer be updated. It has been a great run throughout the Favre years and finally to another Super Bowl. It has been a labor of love to give you our take on all things Packers these many years.

A few days ago, the Wall Street Journal featured a column by Gerrard Baker, a British journalistwho gave the reasons why he has become a fan of American Football. He sums up his feelings about the game we love this way:

Baseball fans will have to forgive me here, but the answer, I think, is that football is the quintessential American sport. Its no accident it hasnt really caught on elsewhere (the annual NFL game in London notwithstanding) whereas baseball and basketball have at least a claim to a global following and participation.

In its energy and complexity, football captures the spirit of America better than any other cultural creation on this continent, and I dont mean because it features long breaks in which advertisers get to sell beer and treatments for erectile dysfunction. It sits at the intersection of pioneering aggression and impossibly complex strategic planning. It is a collision of Hobbes and Locke; violent, primal force tempered by the most complex set of rules, regulations, procedures and systems ever conceived in an athletic framework. Soccer is called the beautiful game. But football is chess, played with real pieces that try to knock each others brains out. It doesnt get any more beautiful than that.

And the best example of that Beautiful Game is the Green Bay Packers. My thanks to all of you for reading our site over the years.