Originally Posted by Mark in Oshawa
I am pulling for the Pack. I like The Steelers too, but for the NFL, I have always cheered for the Packers. The team shouldn't have survived into the modern era, and yet it has, playing out of little ole Green Bay Wisconsin.
I like the Steelers as a team, and Troy Polamalu is a classy all world kind of talent, but for me, I think Charles Woodson and the Packers Defense will give the Pack the edge, and I do think Rodgers will get it done.
As for Cutler's injury, the controversay is arising because many of his teammates lost faith in him and apparnetly the Twitter traffic from members inside the Bears was not complimentry. THEY Think he pulled the chute....
I think he didn't, but I am not on the team either....
Henners, American Football is different from Canadian Football (not radically but more than realized at first glance) but both are derived from Rugby but somehow they evolved a different set of rules and eliminated the scrum to create to lines.
This all happened at the end of the 1870's when McGill from Montreal went down to play Harvard in a game of Rugby and the two schools were playing different rules. How this all came about and why they derived from Rugby is a mystery, but part of it was American schools didn't use their own stadiums and borrowed them from Baseball teams, and those stadiums wouldn't allow a larger rugby field. It just kept evolving....