Pretty much an outstanding first week of the NFL regular season as my Green Bay Packers routed the Detroit Lions at Lambeau Field by a 27-6 count.
I’ve always loved the Packers pretty much since 1962 or so at the age of five when my hatred for Tom Landry and the Dallas Cowboys made the Packers an easy choice for me to adopt them as my NFL team. Coach Lombardi, Bart Starr, Paul Hornung, Jimmy Taylor, Jerry Kramer, Willie Davis, Fuzzy Thurston…. these were my guys and their sheer dominance over America’s Team down south in Dallas was my NFL refuge.
I did however like Don Meredith and Roger Staubach—so my Cowboys’ hatred never extended to those two great NFL quarterback legends. And, I will also admit I liked Peter Gent’s novel North Dallas Forty almost as much as I loved Dan Jenkins’ Semi-Tough and Dead Solid Perfect.
What Mrs. Juanita Elijah wll never undertstand is that Dan Jenkins and Peter Gent pretty much explained to me in their novels the passage of young manhood back during my days as a John Marshall Bear. Mark Twain and Edgar Allen Poe…not quite as much.
The Packers aquired Micah from Jerry Jones just before the trade deadline and hopefully he’ll be the missing miss to the Packer pash rush which I think along with QB Jordan Love’s rising play could put my Packers into what I call the ‘championship window.’
When Presti acquired both Caruso and Isaiah he pretty much in my view vaulted the Thunder into the ‘NBA championship window’. This move with Micah could be along those same lines ‘IF’ the Packers have enough physicalty to get past the Eagles when it matters.
What an NFL season this portends to be for MJ even beyond the Packers as the OU quarterbacks in the league, Baker, Kyler, Jalen, and even even Caleb all appear to be at the point in their careers when they’re all going to be prominent NFL storylines this season. I don’t really consider Spencer Rattler an OU quarterback, but I should… given he quarterbacked the Sooners over the Florida Gators in a Cotton Bowl rout before being benched for Caleb Williams.
Micah…welcome to the Green Bay Packers, buddy. Let’s see if we can climb through that championship window while MJ’s still breathing and walking even if ‘we’ have to beat Baker and Jalen to do it.
Eternal peace, MJ.