Everything goes great for Packers

What a day to be a Packers fan on Sunday.  Green Bay defeats Cleveland 31-3, now having outscored their past two opponents by a combined score of 57-3.  When the final second ticked off the clock in Cleveland, TV network coverage switched right over to Pittsburgh as Brett Favre was in the midst of yet another comeback drive for his Vikings.  However a deflected screen pass was intercepted and returned back for a touchdown as Minnesota lost 27-17 (and even the Bears ended up losing for the perfect Packers fan trifecta).

These turn of events sets the stage for Favre vs. The Packers Part II.  This time though, Lambeau Field will play host to what I already heard billed as “the regular season game of the year” - oh the media hype sometimes.  Now I don’t think this will be the game of the year but it would be tough to find a game that means more in Week 8 of the NFL season.

A Packers win next week does many things.  First, it would force a tie atop the division in the loss column right at the midway mark of the season, a position any head coach in the league would love to be in.  For Packers fans it would mean going 1-1 against Brett Favre, something that is a lot more tolerable than getting swept by good-old #4 after all he put fans through these past two years.  And yes big wins against Detroit and Cleveland are nice, but a win against Minnesota could set the tone for the rest of the season, defeating one of the elite teams currently in the NFC.

However if Green Bay loses to Minnesota.  The Packers would fall back to what amounts to 3 games since the Vikings would hold the head-to-head tiebreaker.  And the “Favre Debate” would linger for the foreseeable future with much more of the second-guessing of how the Green Bay franchise handled the series of events through the spring and summer of 2008.

Throw in what I’m sure will be an almost playoff like atmosphere with the Favre homecoming and on second thought, we may be a witness to what could be the regular season game of the year.