Help Us Rank the 50 Greatest Games in the Favre/Rodgers Era

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Help Us Rank the 50 Greatest Games in the Favre/Rodgers Era

The time has come to cast your votes!

By TimBackes

Apr 04, 2024

12 comments

Hey folks. It's been a bit.

You haven't heard from me in a while because I've been busy with a couple CHTV-related projects:

1) The draft guide. GET YOURS!

2) As you may recall from one of my final Hello Wisconsin columns of the year, I had a wild idea for the offseason: a ranking of the 50 greatest games of the Brett Favre/Aaron Rodgers era (1992-2022).

Well, #2 took a bit longer a bit more work to set up than I thought. Several weeks back I asked CHTV readers to contribute which games they thought should be included. I chose the 55 most-mentioned ones so we would have a list of 50 plus five honorable mentions.

There are some games that are losses. There are some games that are incredible victories. There are some games you might not even remember. But there are a lot here, and it's time (finally) for the voting to begin.

CLICK HERE TO ACCESS THE GOOGLE FORM FOR VOTING!

You're going to want to make sure you've got plenty of time to get through all of this. After all, you're being asked to rate up to 55 games on three different metrics. So grab yourself a beverage and a snack and spend some time clicking through and reminiscing on these games.

I'll be giving a couple weeks for voting, and then once I've got the math all done, I'll be starting the countdown. Each week I'll present five games with the voting numbers and some commentary. We'll start with the five honorable mentions, then go all the way down to the top five.

I'm very much looking forward to this, and hope we get a large number of responses. Thank you in advance to all who participate, and a huge thank you to the many of you who submitted ideas for games to include!

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Johnblood27

April 04, 2024 at 07:18 am

lets see...

where to begin...

In no particular order...

The 2014 Seattle loss - just devastating, most memorable for sure
The 2021 SF playoff loss - see above, what shoulda been...
The 2010 were nobody's underdogs Patriot game - foundation for a SB victory
The Monday night Raider game after Big Irv passed - just iconic
The Chicago end of season win - AR to Cobb with Kuhn throwing a great block on Peppers
The Chicago AR injury-comeback game - just incredible
The Denver SB, I still cannot believe they lost that damn game
The Pittsburgh SB victory - I dont think I have ever been so amped up over a win! unexpected!
The Patriot SB win - I waited a LOOOOOOONG time for that game to happen! The 70's and 80's were more than 2 decades long...
The Detroit-Sterling Sharpe TD Playoff game - what a finish
The Barry Sanders held to 1 yard rushing 1994 Detroit Playoff game - what an effort!
The crazy storm Monday night game blowing out Chicago - Favre was incredible!
The 96 Niners game in SF where packers dominated the 9ers physically and won 27-17
The 97 Niners playoff game in Lambeau rain where Howard was spectacular
The Jerry Rice fumble/TO TD Niner playoff loss - heartbreaking!

There is 15 to start with... more to come!

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Heyjoe414

April 04, 2024 at 07:58 am

That 2014 loss to the Hags was unbelievably bad. With something like 4 minutes to go in regulation, the Hags had like a 1 or 2% chance to win.

And while everything that could go wrong on the field did go wrong, I place most of the blame on MM for "playing not to lose" in the closing minutes. After Wilson was picked off for the last time, I believe the Packers had two "three and outs". Just horrible, conservative coaching and play calling that destroyed all momentum.

That game makes "4th and 26" seam like a cream puff.

Back to the list, I'd add the Rodgers Hail Mary to Richard Rodgers to beat the Lions in Detroit. That was actually very well played by Richards, who stopped and turned around at the 5 yard line to track the ball, then backed and elbowed his way into the end zone to make the catch. Awesome!

T7Steve

April 04, 2024 at 07:44 am

It's going to take me a while to complete this, like you said, Tim.

Wanted to go through all the games before I started voting.

I'm afraid that I have a bias on the games I attended, so I'll try to look at it from a distance.

All the games are so memorable and historic that it's sad to even try to rank them and just better to appreciate them all as a whole.

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Heyjoe414

April 04, 2024 at 08:00 am

I think your memories from games attended would be interesting. You see things differently at the game. Go for it! No wrong answers!

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LeotisHarris

April 04, 2024 at 08:34 am

Agreed, but one question; where you goin' with that gun of your hand?

mrtundra

April 04, 2024 at 08:05 am

1). Any game we beat the vikings.
2.) Any game we beat the Bears
3) Any game we beat Frisco
4) Any game we beat the Cowboys
5( Any game we beat the Seahawks
6) Any Hail Mary games we won
7)Any games we clinched the division in
8) Any games we won the NFC Championship
9) Any Super Bowl wins
10) Any games with Jim Irwin and Max McGee or Wayne Larrivee and Larry McCarren on the Packer Radio Network, calling the games..

LambeauPlain

April 04, 2024 at 09:47 am

I have been attending games at Lambeau Field since the dark days in the Forrest of Gregg.

So many great games...some heart breakers, but mostly exciting, winning football on display.

But since I was there, I will select first game that started this 30 year chronicle:

Favre the unproven back up taking the field vs the Bengals down 17-3 with the Majik Man injured...leading the comeback to win 24-23 at Lambeau.

And the TD pass Brett threw to win game was to Kittrick Taylor. It was Favre's first TD pass, it was Taylor's only NFL TD reception, also Taylors first and only reception as a Packer.

After that game...Favre began his long Ironman streak of NFL games started. It was the game that started the 30 year reign of Packer QB excellence. May it continue with Love.

Coldworld

April 04, 2024 at 10:28 am

You forgot Matt Flynn. He should have at least one game in this list.

The Super Bowl wins aside, for me nothing will top the amazing game after his father died, with particular help from Driver.

There are others I choose to try and forget, many mentioned earlier. Since that’s not been as successful as I like, I will leave this endeavor to others with the thought that overall, I feel very blessed to have watched both Favre and Rogers led teams through highs and lows for so long.

That feels even more of a privilege now that I’m excited about watching Love for the foreseeable future. Never were we out of it for long, we could always bounce back, and I believe we are bouncing now.